Now I am worried that I will be so jealous of your Winter Harvest that you won't comfort me In the sadness of a northern Winter. I'm at the end of my 1st garden in over 20 years. I'm 71 and just hope I will be physically able to have another one next year. You saved me this year Jess.
You can do it, even if it's one pot with a pepper plant, or tomato plant, or a small trellis of cucumbers or bean. it's always worth a try and so satisfying. Plan and dream about it over the winter then plant whatever you can when the spring comes! :)
If you try the three sisters next year, grow Cherokee tan pumpkin as your squash. I lost zucchini and another pumpkin to squash bugs, but they completely ignored the Cherokee tan. Everything I’ve read says they are the most resistant to viruses, mildew and bugs. My plants have shown that’s true. Two plants have more pumpkins than I expected.
I feel like the banana plant is a testament to life. The storms come and may shred all that’s visible, but the insides are so full of life and vigor that given time, it not only regrows what was lost but springs forth exponentially more than what was planted. ❤️
I so agree! When I moved here in March there was a huge brown mess that I assumed was dead. Someone assured me it would come to life so I left it. Wow! Vibrant huge green leaves and a strong plant! It's been a very encouraging metaphor for me in my own life!
I am sending you a challenge! Just try saving a few of your favorite pepper plants. Prune them back to 4-6-8" of trunk stalk... and see what happens next Spring! I potted up some of mine after trimming them back... and overwintered them in my garage....with some success....as well as mixed results. I believe w a poly tunnel, not digging them out, as well as an extra layer of protection... you might have excellent results!!
I used to have a terrible time with squash bugs. I say "used to," because I found out they absolutely HATE nasturtiums. Yep! Just plant nasturtiums around your squash and you won't have much of a problem at all.
I will miss your daily walks in the garden but I have learned so much from you in the last few months. We are considering a smaller high tunnel from watching your success. We love your family, and Ben makes us laugh! Chop, chop, chop, salt, salt, salt every time we have a cucumber! And his dah, dah daaaah, when he found the spaghetti squash. He’s such a garden boy. We thank you for what you do and we bless you.
Jess, I live in Jefferson City, MO and dug up one of my pepper plants and kept it in a pot over winter in my basement and it worked. Actually got a few peppers during the winter. Have lights I kept on them, warm but not real warm. It's a basement garage area.
Random comment, but that’s a beautiful color on you!!! You have such a peace about you that is so soothing!! Thank you for walking us around your garden🧡 I feel like I’m gonna be watching this again in the morning with my coffee and a sweatshirt just enjoying the start of fall🍁🌻🌾
I read somewhere that one of the reasons the native Americans grew sunflowers was to get poles for future crops. Like string beans. I tried this and after letting the sunflower stalks dry they really worked for pole beans and cucumbers. I used mammoth sunflowers. I’m thinking next time I will use a little bit smaller sunflowers.
Thank you, Jess, for touring your garden, teaching us to construct things, and encouraging us in all things gardening. When you mentioned you were going to dry your parsley, I had to share with you the beauty of frozen chopped parsley. After harvest, wash, spin, and chop. Place in a bag and freeze. When you want to use as fresh, just take out what you want, and defrost on the counter. It will taste as good as fresh! It is wonderful as a topping on potatoes, or anything you would garnish with parsley. Blessings on your family and adventures on your homestead!
I've got peppers that have overwintered inside here in New England. They're really like bonsai. My second year with certain peppers gave me a bigger harvest than the first. The other thing you might be able to do is put low tunnels inside of your high tunnel like Patrick from One Yard Revolution. He said you get about 1-1/2 zones per layer of cover, so with cover under your high tunnel, you'll get 3 or more zones.
@@margaretlarson2584 yes, I have grow lights. I actually have a seedling business, so for at least part of the winter the peppers are not directly under the lights, but nearby, so they're getting indirect light. I think if the peppers go into a dormancy (hard prune, no fertilizer, etc) then they don't need direct light, but they also they won't produce for that period. When it's time for them to break dormancy, you can give them some liquid fertilizer to trigger new growth. I think this could be done in a sunny window, but my cat likes eating pepper plant leaves especially, so I have to keep them out of her reach! Also there are some pretty affordable grow lights out there now if you're only overwintering a few plants. Right now I have a grow room full of pepper plants because we've had some nights in the 30s and most of my larger pepper varieties and even some of my hot peppers haven't ripened yet and I want to get a harvest before I prune them back for the winter.
@@alexreith4877 Thanks so much for the detailed reply. I moved some pepper plants into my (new!) greenhouse for that very reason and will likely try to overwinter them under lights. I just can't do too many because I need space to start seedlings in the spring. Reply with your website if you get a chance. Thanks again!
@@margaretlarson2584 you're very welcome! I hear you about not too many. I have the hardest time tossing out perfectly good plants. 😅 I actually don't have a web presence yet. It was one of the things that didn't get done last year, but I plan to rectify that this winter. I'm in northern central Mass. My business name is Little Red Cottage Seedlings. I've been selling at a nearby farmers market and some small local plant sales. I'd love to do what Jess is doing with UA-cam, but I haven't got the skillset yet and it seems a bit intimidating logistically!
My mom always says that the rutabaga is better after a hard frost. She said when she was growing up they used to leave the parsnips in the ground and just dig them up all winter , whenever they wanted them. Good storage, and made the flavor sweeter.😃have a great day/ night!!!
Love having these little sneak peeks into your garden and homestead! I've been wanting to start a garden of my own for the last 3 or so years but knew I would be too lazy to maintain it!😅 But, after finding your videos I started a tiny garden consisting of two medium size planters! I planted all root vegetables after trying four times to get broccoli seeds germinated and being unsuccessful. I planted radishes, turnips, and finger carrots (just 3 to 5 seeds of each type); and they all have germinated and continued to grow! Its given me soo much joy to go out and check on how my plants are doing everyday and showing my sister and father how far they have come since the pervious day! I even check on them when I got to work at 3 am!! I do constantly worry that there is nothing growing under the soil, but tell myself you've grown something!! Even if it's not exactly a full vegetable! I'm already planning a slightly bigger garden for the spring and can't wait to experience all the joy that garden will bring me. So I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your joy and passion with me! And in return I get to share it with my family.😊
I am so glad to see you in this fall Garden Tour. I needed this today. You have so inspired me, I know we are Kindred Spirits, I look forward to any Autumn and Winter videos you have and of course I have pre-ordered your book for Feb. 3, 2021. All your content is what I need. Pray for peace in the USA. Thanks Jessica 😊❤️🙏🇺🇸
Could you do an in-depth video on fencing? You mentioned your front garden fence needs to be replaced, could you talk about what options y’all are considering for replacing it? And show us the parts that are deteriorating so we can see what chickens can break through? I’m buying a few acres this year and I will need to put fencing in for my garden, dogs, and possibly future chickens. I need mine to be DIY as much as possible to keep costs down. I would love some info about pros/cons and pricing considerations. Thanks!!!
Jess crack the wipe and tame your rose! You’ll need to prune your shrub rose back ... they need grooming to continue their breed of rose... if you don’t trim them back they will return to their grafted stalk.
I’m an herbalist in Texas and own my own company. We’re looking to make the move to mid to northeast AR in about 3-5 years so I’m happy to stalk your page. Obviously our growing seasons are MUCH different lol so I’ve a lot to learn. Loving the medicinal plants you have. Super happy to send you some seeds (we save our own seeds) for some medicinal plants that I think will do awesome there.
I love this channel! I haven't been a leader to comment for awhile but I just want to join everyone in thanking you! I did get to plant some things this year...yay! Only got to harvest some tomatoes but I got started! I heard your voice encouraging me all along the journey!
You should totally experiment and let a couple of pepper plants try to make it! I had a volunteer Chile Pequín plant by my fence and heavily mulched it even when it dried up and browned and it CAME BACK! This year it was like a huge bush! And I’m in zone 8b so it might work in the high tunnel.
You will have baby corn, even if you get bigger imature ones that are green, you can slice them with the cob and cook it in butter and salt. it will have an intense corn flavour. The cob is more or less like candy. That is better than plain corn
Hi Jess, something gardener 's have done in England is to add a smaller greenhouse inside of the larger greenhouse, it helps keep your more tender plants safe. I have tried and it works till I got sick and nobody watered the plants.
Suggestion,,, section of an area in high tunnel n heat just thru the winter time.... Use LG barrels fill with water keep on the hottest or sunniest side. Water will warm n at night will let's off heat. Just might get enough heat to protect plants. U have the room. Might as well try.... Best wishes... HUGS
Hi, Jess! A Minnesota Gardener here who has learned a ton this year from you on my gardening journey. Thank you so much! I've heard you ask about things growing here through winter, and, well, not happening except garlic. But hubby keeps bugging me to tell you that putting a compost pile in your high tunnel will increase the temperature, or using barrels of water which causes mass heating. Excited to see how your winter garden goes!
My grandparents always used the three sisters garden style, they would only use one type of corn, beans and squash in one section of the garden then switch it up for a different section. It worked very well for them.
🥰I love that you’re dressed for fall! You look so warm and cozy! It’s definitely fall here in SC in the early morning.😆 My garden is quite wild right now, but the cooler weather does encourage me to get out there and clean up. Bless you, Jess!
Bananas grow from corms. You have to cut the whole stalk down (in the tropics) in order to stimulate the plant to fruit from another stalk. I learned that the hard way. Pretty beautiful to see them growing, even for the leaves & looks.
Lol the bereaved sisters garden is a great way to put that lol I had the worst year of vine borer and squash bugs this year, compared to 10 years of growing squash family plants. They’re currently attempting to attack my cowpeas, but I’m having a better luck staving them off there for whatever reason.
Every time I need inspiration you come up with the perfect video! My garden is looking "wild" as well, and I've been feeling guilty about it. However, you offer a great perspective that makes me continue taking things one step at a time with patience.
Yayyyy ive missed the garden tours💜 ive got you to thank for giving me the nudge i needed to start a fall garden and now im just in awhhh of it all.. So THANK YOU JESS💜💜
OH JESS I AM SO EXCITED - My pressure canner arrived finally as I have been waiting nearly 7 weeks here in Australia- I am doing my first Pressure Canned Chicken stock YEAH !!!!!!!!! Jess Banana trees send off suckers just take them out ( I live in sub-tropical Australia)
Excited for you and your first year with your high tunnel. This is also our first year with a high tunnel but in Zone 4B so I expect we will have a very different experience. Our hope is to keep plants alive through the colder months for earlier and later harvesting. It is such a fun experiment though! 💚-Matt & Sara
If you don't have one already in your rose collection, do try to get your hands on a David Austin hybrid tea rose variety "Double Delight". It is glorious! When it begins to bud, the small flower is creamy white with pink edging and then by the time it is fully open it switches up and is hot pink with a creamy white center. It's quite possibly my favorite variety.
Hey Mrs. Jess, I’ve learned so much about gardening from you. Thank you for sharing your garden and your knowledge with us. I learned that planting a Summer/Winter squash such as Zucchino Rampicante (also known as Tromboncino Squash) will give you better productivity; squash bugs don’t seem to bother with it much. Too, every time I remove a fruit or damaged leaves from a squash plant I spray it right where I removed it from with a peppermint water solution that I keep handy in my garden. It’s just essential oil and water. I enjoy watching your family and farm life. Your tours are always something I look forward to. I pray you continue to grow and succeed in all you do as your soul grows/succeeds in His Way. Much love and many blessings to you and your family.
Hi Jess, At about 14 min mark you mentioned roselle plant for tea. In southern India, the leaves are made into traditional pickle, cooked with lentils, soups, chutney.. So many more.. Its a delicacy. Its called Gongura. Try it with with Salads. Its older leaves are tangy. You wouldn't stop once you incorporate into your meals. My 5 year old girl loved eating them for her lunch like salad. BTW, I really like your channel. Learnt so much from you. Thank you!
You have SO much knowledge and i just love listening cuz i learn so much! I used to just go to the local big box stores and buy annual veges and fruits to put in my garden and this year, i used seeds. Even started some indoors. I am so excited about watching everything grow and knowing that "I " did it! So looking forward to doing this again inside come feb or march and just love learning more and more from you. ty.
Jess! You can buy a 50 lb bag of whole oats at Tractor Supply for $16- $22 and scatter them on any beds you're not going to plant into over winter and they'll grow in the cool weather and make a thick grassy ground cover but they die at the first hard freeze and flop over and make mulch to protect your soil all winter. Wheat and barley may survive the winter but when I use oats they always die (which is good or you'll be fighting to remove them to plant in spring).
Tried my own "3 sisters" in raised beds this year. (Zone 6A, SE Massachusetts) Choked out my squashes with too many beans. Lesson learned for next year. My Jerusalem artichokes are about 10 feet tall, just about to flower. I will harvest after our first frost date. First time for alot of things this year! Thank you for your inspiration!
For Miah's grandmother, if she enjoys reading: THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN. The story of the amazing residents of Gander, Newfoundland and their impeccable care for passengers from more than 30 airplanes who were detoured to Gander because American air space had been closed on 9/11. It's a story of the character of a town, full of loving, selfless folks.
You can over winter potted peppers in a heated garage and they will go into dormancy as long as you keep them cool and dry. Water them lightly every few weeks and spray the bare stalks down with neem oil to keep pests away. Start moving them back out during the day in March so they can wake back up.
Jess, concerning your banana plants, when you know when your first freeze is due, put some kind of fencing around the stalk. Make sure it has room away from the stalk, like a foot away all around the stalk. Fill it up with some kind of mulch, piling it up as tall as your fence is. Ours is four feet tall and we pack it in with leaves, woodchips and weeds from the gardens. When the freeze hits, your banana tree will freeze from the top down to where your protective frost fence is. Next spring, when you know for sure there is NO MORE freezes or frost warnings, you pull the fencing away from the stalk. Clean up all the frozen stuff and now you have a banana stalk that is at least four feet tall! You are now ahead of the growing season by four months! This extra time will give your banana trees more time to bloom and produce fruit! Remember, once your tree fruits, it will not fruit again. That's why they grow so many baby plants, to replace the fruiting stalks. Have fun with this. We hope to have bananas next spring/summer. Yeah!!!!!
Loved your tour with your awesome garden. I thank you so much Jess for your knowledge you share and I truly admire your labor of love. Thank you again!
I try this method too, this year. I did three blocks 2’x2’ with corn, beans and squash. One block had papa’s blue (a flour type) with pinto pole beans, and racer pumpkins in between the blocks. The 2nd block had pink popcorn with royal burgundy bush beans. The third block has baby corn with black turtle bush bean. I upload a video with the garden walk through, it shows how well it did here in my area of Oregon
Swxpey I know I’ve found a few from my boys pants pockets lol 😂 my kids love experimenting with seeds and I just provide the pots/garden space for their plants 🌱
Crisp air must be nice! We still had a 99-100° day here in Las Vegas...I was still sweating doing my morning chores in my small garden and chicken coops today lol
Our family just set out on a journey to get healthier physically, mentally, and spiritually. That includes growing our own food. We just planted our very first fall garden today, but I've been watching your channel for about 2 years now. Thanks for your content. If you want a laugh, feel free to pop on over to our channel and watch our journey.
Thanks for the video. We had our first frost in PA two days ago, freezing temps last night. About 6 weeks ahead of schedule. Hope you get a longer season.
Your pepper plants are a nice size and productive, I can see why you wouldn't waste the energy to over winter them when they grow so well. Here in the UK pepper plants take for ever to grow never getting very big because of the weather, so I'm going to try over wintering my pepper plants in my house.
Just ordered Brussels sprouts, garlic, collards, onion sets, rutabagas, cabbages and Cherokee purple seeds for spring...getting ready to put my fall root crops in...and some sweet peas and spinach and late lettuce
I grow in the sub-tropics in Brisbane, Australia so I can grow most things all year round. The only exception is my brassicas for which I only have a short season. My peppers are perennial and always crop better the second year. I have left some to grow to about 3-5 feet tall but the yield drops off so I only grow them for two years. It is early Spring here and I just pulled out my winter tomatoes. I will replant tomatoes every season. Your videos are always inspiring and I love the way you intertwine your family with the growing advice. Have a good Fall/Winter season!
Your place is beautiful! I am a new subscriber & I believe that I will be learning about growing food & more. I am so glad that I found your channel. Stay well and may God bless you & yours very abundantly.
That high tunnel really intrigues the daylights out of me! -- keeping my fingers crossed that we can get one next spring. Am I the only one who is already looking forward to gardening in 2021?😜 🤣 BAKER CREEK is accepting pre-orders on THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG 2021 (reduced to $9.95). It is 500 pages. Yes, I'm excited to get my hands on it! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 9/21/2020.
Hi, H.S. -- I believe it is just THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG that can be pre-ordered. For many of us Northern Growers, a lot of this year's seed crops are still in the field. When BAKER CREEK releases the catalog in November and/or December, a smart move would be for us to submit an order right away -- improve the odds for getting what we want! Hope this helps. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 9/22/2020
We are headed into fall and have been getting early frosts in Maine. We are experimenting with a heated greenhouse and have left the tomatoes and peppers in there to see how long they last. We will start doing videos on that soon so I am super excited to hear that about peppers!
All my winter squash died pretty early on after being attacked by squash bugs and vine borers except for my Seminole pumpkins. They weren't bothered a bit! I highly recommend them. They're still trying to put off new pumpkins.
Yay!! This is definitely what my Monday needed... this and the purchase of a couple stickers from your shop ;-) Thanks for sharing a new tour! Looking forward to happy mail soon :-)
LOL - you said teepee trellis and my mind was distracted and I thought toilet paper trellis?? Whaaaa? And then the other brain cell in my skull kicked in . . . oooohhhh duh.
Rosella - try some potash to bring on flowers/fruit... not sure if the plant will have time to fruit before your frost though? I did this with my last rosella plant (they grow all year round where I live in Queensland, Australia). It was the biggest healthiest plant for months,. but wouldn't fruit... put some potash around it & 2 weeks later, it was covered in flowers!! harvested more fruit than I could use... but saved so many seeds! :D
Great info on corn crossing. I never thought about them crossing in the first year. I wasn’t able to really garden this year (I did get some herbs at least) because life was just too crazy. But I have already went through my seed collection and started planning my grow list for next year. Planning on some sweet corn and glass gem corn.
Our first frost wasn't estimated until oct 11th but it came two evenings ago, we're zone 6A in Ontario, Canada. My 3 daughters and I Love watching your videos, especially my 3yo. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge
I planted pink popcorn and I planted blue popcorn right by each other. Even though the pink corn was a 90 day in the blue corn was 120 day, When we harvested some of the pink had a little bit of blue and some of the blue had little bits of pink and some almost looked purple. Luckily it was all popcorn so it was ok
Here in Australia, when the bananas have fruited & then send up new shoots, I cut the mother tree out. ... but where I am I also have a long growing season. ;)
Now I am worried that I will be so jealous of your Winter Harvest that you won't comfort me In the sadness of a northern Winter. I'm at the end of my 1st garden in over 20 years. I'm 71 and just hope I will be physically able to have another one next year. You saved me this year Jess.
You can do it, even if it's one pot with a pepper plant, or tomato plant, or a small trellis of cucumbers or bean. it's always worth a try and so satisfying. Plan and dream about it over the winter then plant whatever you can when the spring comes! :)
FINALLY, A GARDENER THAT TRANSLATES INTO CELCIUS!
Thank you. 😁
Yes and meters.
Yes! Chicken cultivators!
How the heck is someone going to give this video a thumbs down!? Great work, Jess.
I just want to ask them, "Who hurt you?" :)
I wonder if they fat fingered it and meant to put thumbs up.
I like to think it's the squash bugs that put thumbs down on her videos. 🤔
SluttyAnkles my favorite youtube comeback comment to any troll.
Always someone cant'stand to be positive. Always amung best videos on you tube
If you try the three sisters next year, grow Cherokee tan pumpkin as your squash. I lost zucchini and another pumpkin to squash bugs, but they completely ignored the Cherokee tan. Everything I’ve read says they are the most resistant to viruses, mildew and bugs. My plants have shown that’s true. Two plants have more pumpkins than I expected.
I feel like the banana plant is a testament to life. The storms come and may shred all that’s visible, but the insides are so full of life and vigor that given time, it not only regrows what was lost but springs forth exponentially more than what was planted. ❤️
I so agree! When I moved here in March there was a huge brown mess that I assumed was dead. Someone assured me it would come to life so I left it. Wow! Vibrant huge green leaves and a strong plant! It's been a very encouraging metaphor for me in my own life!
Where can I get banana seeds to grow?
@@ariaana2712 I've seen the plants for sale...don't know about seeds. Have you checked Baker creek or MIGardener?
@@ariaana2712 They grow from pups.
Joy Borazjani I did but no luck, they were out of stock. Thanks though.
The chickens are like “hello old fence, my old friend! I’m come to breach you here again” 😆
Claire Campbell - Hey Blondie! Hahaha I was singing the song to funny . Love it 😍
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I am sending you a challenge! Just try saving a few of your favorite pepper plants. Prune them back to 4-6-8" of trunk stalk... and see what happens next Spring! I potted up some of mine after trimming them back... and overwintered them in my garage....with some success....as well as mixed results. I believe w a poly tunnel, not digging them out, as well as an extra layer of protection... you might have excellent results!!
Your garden tours never get old 😊
I used to have a terrible time with squash bugs. I say "used to," because I found out they absolutely HATE nasturtiums. Yep! Just plant nasturtiums around your squash and you won't have much of a problem at all.
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Used to use marigolds & chrysanthemums, great about the nasturtium😉
I worry about Nasturtiums reseeding every year and getting out of hand...
They can't re-seed if you keep them deadheaded. I pick most of the blossoms anyway. We love them in salads, tea, etc.
How I miss those days of my 3 boys playing in the woods and creek behind our house everyday. They grow up too fast :(
Butterfly pea flower tea is lovely! Gorgeous blue and turns a gorgeous purple when you add lemon. My favorite and amazing as iced tea in the summer.
I will miss your daily walks in the garden but I have learned so much from you in the last few months. We are considering a smaller high tunnel from watching your success. We love your family, and Ben makes us laugh! Chop, chop, chop, salt, salt, salt every time we have a cucumber! And his dah, dah daaaah, when he found the spaghetti squash. He’s such a garden boy.
We thank you for what you do and we bless you.
Jess, I live in Jefferson City, MO and dug up one of my pepper plants and kept it in a pot over winter in my basement and it worked. Actually got a few peppers during the winter. Have lights I kept on them, warm but not real warm. It's a basement garage area.
Howdy from The white mountains in Arizona. God bless you Jess you are my garden guru and I love your devotionals. They make my soul ache for Jesus.🐾
We call those Okra Maraca’s haha like a perfect garden musical instrument, you can shake them around like a maraca!
Random comment, but that’s a beautiful color on you!!! You have such a peace about you that is so soothing!! Thank you for walking us around your garden🧡 I feel like I’m gonna be watching this again in the morning with my coffee and a sweatshirt just enjoying the start of fall🍁🌻🌾
My family used your idea of using cattle panels for an arch trellis. You've been a big inspiration for me! Thanks for putting out these videos!
I read somewhere that one of the reasons the native Americans grew sunflowers was to get poles for future crops. Like string beans. I tried this and after letting the sunflower stalks dry they really worked for pole beans and cucumbers. I used mammoth sunflowers. I’m thinking next time I will use a little bit smaller sunflowers.
Thank you, Jess, for touring your garden, teaching us to construct things, and encouraging us in all things gardening. When you mentioned you were going to dry your parsley, I had to share with you the beauty of frozen chopped parsley. After harvest, wash, spin, and chop. Place in a bag and freeze. When you want to use as fresh, just take out what you want, and defrost on the counter. It will taste as good as fresh! It is wonderful as a topping on potatoes, or anything you would garnish with parsley. Blessings on your family and adventures on your homestead!
I've got peppers that have overwintered inside here in New England. They're really like bonsai. My second year with certain peppers gave me a bigger harvest than the first. The other thing you might be able to do is put low tunnels inside of your high tunnel like Patrick from One Yard Revolution. He said you get about 1-1/2 zones per layer of cover, so with cover under your high tunnel, you'll get 3 or more zones.
Hi Alex. I'm in western Mass. Do you overwinter them under lights?
@@margaretlarson2584 yes, I have grow lights. I actually have a seedling business, so for at least part of the winter the peppers are not directly under the lights, but nearby, so they're getting indirect light. I think if the peppers go into a dormancy (hard prune, no fertilizer, etc) then they don't need direct light, but they also they won't produce for that period. When it's time for them to break dormancy, you can give them some liquid fertilizer to trigger new growth. I think this could be done in a sunny window, but my cat likes eating pepper plant leaves especially, so I have to keep them out of her reach! Also there are some pretty affordable grow lights out there now if you're only overwintering a few plants. Right now I have a grow room full of pepper plants because we've had some nights in the 30s and most of my larger pepper varieties and even some of my hot peppers haven't ripened yet and I want to get a harvest before I prune them back for the winter.
@@alexreith4877 Thanks so much for the detailed reply. I moved some pepper plants into my (new!) greenhouse for that very reason and will likely try to overwinter them under lights. I just can't do too many because I need space to start seedlings in the spring. Reply with your website if you get a chance. Thanks again!
@@margaretlarson2584 you're very welcome! I hear you about not too many. I have the hardest time tossing out perfectly good plants. 😅
I actually don't have a web presence yet. It was one of the things that didn't get done last year, but I plan to rectify that this winter. I'm in northern central Mass. My business name is Little Red Cottage Seedlings. I've been selling at a nearby farmers market and some small local plant sales. I'd love to do what Jess is doing with UA-cam, but I haven't got the skillset yet and it seems a bit intimidating logistically!
And I love all the peppers all harvested and lined up in the bed 💚 its like a mini fall fair!
My mom always says that the rutabaga is better after a hard frost. She said when she was growing up they used to leave the parsnips in the ground and just dig them up all winter , whenever they wanted them. Good storage, and made the flavor sweeter.😃have a great day/ night!!!
Love having these little sneak peeks into your garden and homestead!
I've been wanting to start a garden of my own for the last 3 or so years but knew I would be too lazy to maintain it!😅 But, after finding your videos I started a tiny garden consisting of two medium size planters! I planted all root vegetables after trying four times to get broccoli seeds germinated and being unsuccessful. I planted radishes, turnips, and finger carrots (just 3 to 5 seeds of each type); and they all have germinated and continued to grow!
Its given me soo much joy to go out and check on how my plants are doing everyday and showing my sister and father how far they have come since the pervious day! I even check on them when I got to work at 3 am!! I do constantly worry that there is nothing growing under the soil, but tell myself you've grown something!! Even if it's not exactly a full vegetable!
I'm already planning a slightly bigger garden for the spring and can't wait to experience all the joy that garden will bring me.
So I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your joy and passion with me! And in return I get to share it with my family.😊
I am so glad to see you in this fall Garden Tour. I needed this today. You have so inspired me, I know we are Kindred Spirits, I look forward to any Autumn and Winter videos you have and of course I have pre-ordered your book for Feb. 3, 2021. All your content is what I need. Pray for peace in the USA. Thanks Jessica 😊❤️🙏🇺🇸
Could you do an in-depth video on fencing? You mentioned your front garden fence needs to be replaced, could you talk about what options y’all are considering for replacing it? And show us the parts that are deteriorating so we can see what chickens can break through? I’m buying a few acres this year and I will need to put fencing in for my garden, dogs, and possibly future chickens. I need mine to be DIY as much as possible to keep costs down. I would love some info about pros/cons and pricing considerations. Thanks!!!
Jess crack the wipe and tame your rose! You’ll need to prune your shrub rose back ... they need grooming to continue their breed of rose... if you don’t trim them back they will return to their grafted stalk.
I’m an herbalist in Texas and own my own company. We’re looking to make the move to mid to northeast AR in about 3-5 years so I’m happy to stalk your page. Obviously our growing seasons are MUCH different lol so I’ve a lot to learn. Loving the medicinal plants you have. Super happy to send you some seeds (we save our own seeds) for some medicinal plants that I think will do awesome there.
What seeds do you have available?
Maybe we can seed swap? Email me akwyatt2424@gmail.com thanks ☺️
I love this channel! I haven't been a leader to comment for awhile but I just want to join everyone in thanking you! I did get to plant some things this year...yay! Only got to harvest some tomatoes but I got started! I heard your voice encouraging me all along the journey!
2 bereaved sisters keeps making me chuckle 😁
Stickers arriving, a video posted, and fall gardening advice all in one day. What a blessing!
If hopening is not a word....it is now, Jess said so 😊 Loved this tour. Learned yet more new info Thank you Jess ❤️🙏🏻❤️
You should totally experiment and let a couple of pepper plants try to make it! I had a volunteer Chile Pequín plant by my fence and heavily mulched it even when it dried up and browned and it CAME BACK! This year it was like a huge bush! And I’m in zone 8b so it might work in the high tunnel.
You will have baby corn, even if you get bigger imature ones that are green, you can slice them with the cob and cook it in butter and salt. it will have an intense corn flavour. The cob is more or less like candy. That is better than plain corn
You can even eat the raw as a snack
Hi Jess, something gardener 's have done in England is to add a smaller greenhouse inside of the larger greenhouse, it helps keep your more tender plants safe. I have tried and it works till I got sick and nobody watered the plants.
Suggestion,,, section of an area in high tunnel n heat just thru the winter time.... Use LG barrels fill with water keep on the hottest or sunniest side. Water will warm n at night will let's off heat. Just might get enough heat to protect plants. U have the room. Might as well try.... Best wishes... HUGS
Hi, Jess! A Minnesota Gardener here who has learned a ton this year from you on my gardening journey. Thank you so much! I've heard you ask about things growing here through winter, and, well, not happening except garlic. But hubby keeps bugging me to tell you that putting a compost pile in your high tunnel will increase the temperature, or using barrels of water which causes mass heating. Excited to see how your winter garden goes!
My grandparents always used the three sisters garden style, they would only use one type of corn, beans and squash in one section of the garden then switch it up for a different section. It worked very well for them.
🥰I love that you’re dressed for fall! You look so warm and cozy! It’s definitely fall here in SC in the early morning.😆 My garden is quite wild right now, but the cooler weather does encourage me to get out there and clean up. Bless you, Jess!
Bananas grow from corms. You have to cut the whole stalk down (in the tropics) in order to stimulate the plant to fruit from another stalk. I learned that the hard way. Pretty beautiful to see them growing, even for the leaves & looks.
I WAS CANNING APPLES ON SUNDAY I FOUND A SEED INSIDE IT WITH A ROOT ON IT SOOO I PLANTED IT TO SEEE IF IT GROWS
We have 2 little apple trees from that happening!
Nice
Funny, I just cut an apple from last season to eat and 4 of the seeds had sprouted as well. I dropped them into a jar with a bit of water for a bit.
@@heatherk8931 I PLANTED MINE ITS GROWING
Omw. I'm so happy to hear You say "South African Guy". Hashtag proud South African 😁🇿🇦
Lol the bereaved sisters garden is a great way to put that lol I had the worst year of vine borer and squash bugs this year, compared to 10 years of growing squash family plants. They’re currently attempting to attack my cowpeas, but I’m having a better luck staving them off there for whatever reason.
Every time I need inspiration you come up with the perfect video! My garden is looking "wild" as well, and I've been feeling guilty about it. However, you offer a great perspective that makes me continue taking things one step at a time with patience.
Yayyyy ive missed the garden tours💜 ive got you to thank for giving me the nudge i needed to start a fall garden and now im just in awhhh of it all.. So THANK YOU JESS💜💜
OH JESS I AM SO EXCITED - My pressure canner arrived finally as I have been waiting nearly 7 weeks here in Australia- I am doing my first Pressure Canned Chicken stock YEAH !!!!!!!!!
Jess Banana trees send off suckers just take them out ( I live in sub-tropical Australia)
I sure hope that watching you work in your garden is almost as therapeutic as actually working in mine. So many things coming up there!
Girl! This is AWESOME! You're such an inspiration!
Excited for you and your first year with your high tunnel. This is also our first year with a high tunnel but in Zone 4B so I expect we will have a very different experience. Our hope is to keep plants alive through the colder months for earlier and later harvesting. It is such a fun experiment though! 💚-Matt & Sara
If you don't have one already in your rose collection, do try to get your hands on a David Austin hybrid tea rose variety "Double Delight". It is glorious! When it begins to bud, the small flower is creamy white with pink edging and then by the time it is fully open it switches up and is hot pink with a creamy white center. It's quite possibly my favorite variety.
As a Hispanic, I love banana trees. There are so many uses with the leaves.
So excited to see the high tunnel through this new season change!
Hey Mrs. Jess,
I’ve learned so much about gardening from you. Thank you for sharing your garden and your knowledge with us.
I learned that planting a Summer/Winter squash such as Zucchino Rampicante (also known as Tromboncino Squash) will give you better productivity; squash bugs don’t seem to bother with it much. Too, every time I remove a fruit or damaged leaves from a squash plant I spray it right where I removed it from with a peppermint water solution that I keep handy in my garden. It’s just essential oil and water.
I enjoy watching your family and farm life. Your tours are always something I look forward to.
I pray you continue to grow and succeed in all you do as your soul grows/succeeds in His Way. Much love and many blessings to you and your family.
Hi Jess, At about 14 min mark you mentioned roselle plant for tea. In southern India, the leaves are made into traditional pickle, cooked with lentils, soups, chutney.. So many more.. Its a delicacy. Its called Gongura. Try it with with Salads. Its older leaves are tangy. You wouldn't stop once you incorporate into your meals. My 5 year old girl loved eating them for her lunch like salad.
BTW, I really like your channel. Learnt so much from you. Thank you!
You have SO much knowledge and i just love listening cuz i learn so much! I used to just go to the local big box stores and buy annual veges and fruits to put in my garden and this year, i used seeds. Even started some indoors. I am so excited about watching everything grow and knowing that "I " did it! So looking forward to doing this again inside come feb or march and just love learning more and more from you. ty.
Jess! You can buy a 50 lb bag of whole oats at Tractor Supply for $16- $22 and scatter them on any beds you're not going to plant into over winter and they'll grow in the cool weather and make a thick grassy ground cover but they die at the first hard freeze and flop over and make mulch to protect your soil all winter. Wheat and barley may survive the winter but when I use oats they always die (which is good or you'll be fighting to remove them to plant in spring).
Great video! So much going on, amazing how fast the seasons go when your growing...
Tried my own "3 sisters" in raised beds this year. (Zone 6A, SE Massachusetts) Choked out my squashes with too many beans. Lesson learned for next year. My Jerusalem artichokes are about 10 feet tall, just about to flower. I will harvest after our first frost date. First time for alot of things this year! Thank you for your inspiration!
Cannot wait to see what the Fall brings in the high tunnel. 🥦🥬🥦🥬
For Miah's grandmother, if she enjoys reading: THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN. The story of the amazing residents of Gander, Newfoundland and their impeccable care for passengers from more than 30 airplanes who were detoured to Gander because American air space had been closed on 9/11. It's a story of the character of a town, full of loving, selfless folks.
You can over winter potted peppers in a heated garage and they will go into dormancy as long as you keep them cool and dry. Water them lightly every few weeks and spray the bare stalks down with neem oil to keep pests away. Start moving them back out during the day in March so they can wake back up.
And I did order a soil block mold for spring planting indoors..a new experience and experiment..you have def inspired me to play,.thank you
Thanks Jess! Excited to see how the high tunnel veggies do. I love love the Sunflowers. Thank you for sharing. God bless y’all!🥰🌻
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I love how you have taught me so much about gardening! Thank you!
I love that you thin by transplanting! I do the same, totally worth it!
Jess, concerning your banana plants, when you know when your first freeze is due, put some kind of fencing around the stalk. Make sure it has room away from the stalk, like a foot away all around the stalk. Fill it up with some kind of mulch, piling it up as tall as your fence is. Ours is four feet tall and we pack it in with leaves, woodchips and weeds from the gardens. When the freeze hits, your banana tree will freeze from the top down to where your protective frost fence is. Next spring, when you know for sure there is NO MORE freezes or frost warnings, you pull the fencing away from the stalk. Clean up all the frozen stuff and now you have a banana stalk that is at least four feet tall! You are now ahead of the growing season by four months! This extra time will give your banana trees more time to bloom and produce fruit! Remember, once your tree fruits, it will not fruit again. That's why they grow so many baby plants, to replace the fruiting stalks. Have fun with this. We hope to have bananas next spring/summer. Yeah!!!!!
I love the banana trees, they are beautiful ❤️
Always looks forward to your videos 😊🦋🌸
Loved your tour with your awesome garden. I thank you so much Jess for your knowledge you share and I truly admire your labor of love. Thank you again!
I love the updates on garden. Happy to see the three sister garden updates.
I try this method too, this year. I did three blocks 2’x2’ with corn, beans and squash. One block had papa’s blue (a flour type) with pinto pole beans, and racer pumpkins in between the blocks. The 2nd block had pink popcorn with royal burgundy bush beans. The third block has baby corn with black turtle bush bean. I upload a video with the garden walk through, it shows how well it did here in my area of Oregon
How many seeds do you find in the bottom of the washer and dryer hahaha
Swxpey I know I’ve found a few from my boys pants pockets lol 😂 my kids love experimenting with seeds and I just provide the pots/garden space for their plants 🌱
I hope you're feeling better Jess I'm just re-watching watched vlogs just incase I missed something XXX ❤️
Crisp air must be nice! We still had a 99-100° day here in Las Vegas...I was still sweating doing my morning chores in my small garden and chicken coops today lol
Our family just set out on a journey to get healthier physically, mentally, and spiritually. That includes growing our own food. We just planted our very first fall garden today, but I've been watching your channel for about 2 years now. Thanks for your content. If you want a laugh, feel free to pop on over to our channel and watch our journey.
I just saved my first round of okra seeds! I’m gonna take them to my horticulture class and I’m gonna grow some!
Great video Jess, thank you for sharing 🧡
The garden is lookiing amazing.
Thanks for the video. We had our first frost in PA two days ago, freezing temps last night. About 6 weeks ahead of schedule. Hope you get a longer season.
Your pepper plants are a nice size and productive, I can see why you wouldn't waste the energy to over winter them when they grow so well.
Here in the UK pepper plants take for ever to grow never getting very big because of the weather, so I'm going to try over wintering my pepper plants in my house.
now i want to visit Kentucky and its beautiful farms!
that is a very nice and organized high tunnel
Yaaaay im so glad youre doing the electric fence chick shaw method! Its so clever :)
Just ordered Brussels sprouts, garlic, collards, onion sets, rutabagas, cabbages and Cherokee purple seeds for spring...getting ready to put my fall root crops in...and some sweet peas and spinach and late lettuce
I grow in the sub-tropics in Brisbane, Australia so I can grow most things all year round. The only exception is my brassicas for which I only have a short season. My peppers are perennial and always crop better the second year. I have left some to grow to about 3-5 feet tall but the yield drops off so I only grow them for two years. It is early Spring here and I just pulled out my winter tomatoes. I will replant tomatoes every season. Your videos are always inspiring and I love the way you intertwine your family with the growing advice. Have a good Fall/Winter season!
Catching up on months of R&R videos, I love that you are attempting to create some kinda Frankencorn... Spring time is hitting East KY Yay!
Your place is beautiful! I am a new subscriber & I believe that I will be learning about growing food & more. I am so glad that I found your channel. Stay well and may God bless you & yours very abundantly.
That high tunnel really intrigues the daylights out of me! -- keeping my fingers crossed that we can get one next spring.
Am I the only one who is already looking forward to gardening in 2021?😜 🤣
BAKER CREEK is accepting pre-orders on THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG 2021 (reduced to $9.95). It is 500 pages. Yes, I'm excited to get my hands on it!
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 9/21/2020.
Are you able to actually preorder the seeds or just the catalog? After the fiasco of finding seeds this year I'd happily order tons early!
Hi, H.S. -- I believe it is just THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG that can be pre-ordered.
For many of us Northern Growers, a lot of this year's seed crops are still in the field.
When BAKER CREEK releases the catalog in November and/or December, a smart move would be for us to submit an order right away -- improve the odds for getting what we want! Hope this helps. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 9/22/2020
The next level is always a fun level to be at.
We are headed into fall and have been getting early frosts in Maine. We are experimenting with a heated greenhouse and have left the tomatoes and peppers in there to see how long they last. We will start doing videos on that soon so I am super excited to hear that about peppers!
Where in Maine are you? I'm on the Midcoast, a little way from Bath!❤
@@shadowlandsfarmandcreamery5400 we are in Vassalboro. Right in between waterville and augusta. :)
@@wickedquailandpork537 that's fantastic! I love seeing other folks from my state wandering around my favorite channels😊
Wow Jess, that was simply amazing!
All my winter squash died pretty early on after being attacked by squash bugs and vine borers except for my Seminole pumpkins. They weren't bothered a bit! I highly recommend them. They're still trying to put off new pumpkins.
New t-shirt line! "But...chickens "🤣🤣🤣
Yay thankyou for this awesome fall garden tour! Love you guys!!
Yay!! This is definitely what my Monday needed... this and the purchase of a couple stickers from your shop ;-) Thanks for sharing a new tour! Looking forward to happy mail soon :-)
LOL - you said teepee trellis and my mind was distracted and I thought toilet paper trellis?? Whaaaa? And then the other brain cell in my skull kicked in . . . oooohhhh duh.
Lol ahhhh look at the chicken. Ur comment made me laugh 😆
I had to think about it too!
Rosella - try some potash to bring on flowers/fruit... not sure if the plant will have time to fruit before your frost though? I did this with my last rosella plant (they grow all year round where I live in Queensland, Australia). It was the biggest healthiest plant for months,. but wouldn't fruit... put some potash around it & 2 weeks later, it was covered in flowers!! harvested more fruit than I could use... but saved so many seeds! :D
Great info on corn crossing. I never thought about them crossing in the first year. I wasn’t able to really garden this year (I did get some herbs at least) because life was just too crazy. But I have already went through my seed collection and started planning my grow list for next year. Planning on some sweet corn and glass gem corn.
Our first frost wasn't estimated until oct 11th but it came two evenings ago, we're zone 6A in Ontario, Canada. My 3 daughters and I Love watching your videos, especially my 3yo. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge
Hello fellow Canadian. Nit sure whatbi am. But we had two frost days a week and a half ago.
I planted pink popcorn and I planted blue popcorn right by each other. Even though the pink corn was a 90 day in the blue corn was 120 day, When we harvested some of the pink had a little bit of blue and some of the blue had little bits of pink and some almost looked purple. Luckily it was all popcorn so it was ok
So much Garden envy ♥️♥️
Here in Australia, when the bananas have fruited & then send up new shoots, I cut the mother tree out. ... but where I am I also have a long growing season. ;)