You need a trash garden. My grandpa had a small space by the backdoor where he put all rescue plants, things he didn't think would live, and any kid experiments (this resulted in a grand avocado tree that lasted over 20 years until a particularly hard frost got it). We keep a trash garden now. It always becomes a favorite spot.
Haha, I catch myself doing that and reporting on what David The Good said or did (he is a tropical garden researcher/author I follow for my zone.) Both teach me so much.
Jess is one of my best friends, that I haven’t met. 🤪 Thank you for the videos. Watching them is better than therapy. And the old summer tour videos is helping me be patient with my seedlings. A lot of the lettuce and tomato seedlings I’m growing like the Marvel of 4 seasons, Paul Robeson, Thornburn terra cotta, were bought because of things I’ve seen in your videos. You cost me a lot of money. 🤓 I look forward to growing an exotic salad garden this year. In my studio apartment. I’ve been told I can’t do that especially without grow lights or grow cherry tomatoes upside without a trellis. But this is my third year of doing the “impossible”. Thank you for the encouragement and validating my interest in gardening, saving seeds, preserving, cooking from scratch, and just allowing myself to experiment as I make my waiting room my classroom. Btw, your advice you gave about video taping my garden has helped me document the growth in my “Garden Of Eden”, much more easily than writing it down. It also helped me acknowledge that while I don’t want to post pictures of my messy apartment online, I do like being able to notate the development of my plants. In short… You’re NEET-O! 🥰
I think the Brad's Atomic grpes taste hoppy too. You could your extra mint for your chickens, add dry mint to nest boxes and floor as a preventive for bugs and such plus your coop will smell extra fresh.
Lindsey Curry My husband says my chickens probably have the best smelling bums in Missouri 😜 I make nesting box herb mixes for our girls as well. I also have over a dozen Brads atomic grape tomatoes growing, they’re so much fun!
would you ever consider doing a REALLY indulgent compilation (because I assume you'd have to film it over several harvests) of the types of tomatoes you're growing and their cross-sections/flavor profiles/uses? Or maybe even something like a "tomatoes of the week" bit?
I can see a farm to table restaurant and visitor center in the roots and refuge future... Getting chip and jo gates magnolia vibes watching how much the garden space and homestead is growing..... Also just really wish you guys would do that 😊😊
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Yeessssss! I can totally see it in my mind.... Goat milk, yogurt, cheese... The eggs, the garden.... School busses on field trips.... And maybe classes and seed swaps..... Sign me up as the first season pass holder 😁
Great tour Jess! I think a lot of people might equate hybrid with genetically engineered, which of course they are not. An F1 is simply a cross that has not had enough generations to become stable and reliably grow true. Most of our heirlooms were crosses at some point.
These tours nourish my soul. I hope you show us your food prep /cooking for these veggies with the intriguing names and characteristics. I was brought up eating very plain, basic, inexpensive, somewhat over cooked foods that I did not really like very well. Think of those overcooked, unappetizing foods at the school cafeteria’s 55 yrs ago and you have the idea. Now I eat mostly raw fruits and veggies with dairy. But I want to learn. You do such a wonderful job with your videos and editing. Love Bear, goats, etc. your kids have a wonderful place to grow up/play. You are doing a great job with them. I really appreciate all you offer us. That kitchen will be ‘The bomb’ and can’t wait to see you and Miah’s creation. Thank you.
Gardening at all levels has saved many of us from going bonkers over COVID and we couldn't have done it without fabulous people like you, Jess and Miah, and Ben (reminds me so much of another sweet boy).
Im a farmer that never leaves the hollar so I cant say I know how you feel or even know who you are but I just thought I would chime in and say.. Hang In There!! This to will pass!! Stay Safe and try to have a GREAT DAY!!!
On the Clematis, plant a shorter growing something at the bottom of the plant, as they like to have their feet covered. I wish my garden looked that good. I can't wait to get back in the country.
Raising Mystery Tomatoes is like raising children. The mystery of waiting to see who they’ll be is miraculous. I think Benjamin gave you a super fun lesson in love, patience and curiosity! T I love your channel!
I love how Bear is always assisting You in these videos... It make me smile, especially when I imagine him with a clip-board making notes on everything You say... He's such a devoted gardener :)
I recommend growing Kabocha! It is such a delicious squash. My homestay mother in Japan cooked it almost every way possible and I never got tired of it.
@@gailpetchenik3048 It's grown heavily in Mexico, Japan, and Hawai'i (and probably some other places). In Japan, Kabocha is their word for pumpkin. Japanese people I spoke to have never eaten our orange pumpkin before (aside from starbucks pumpkin lattes!). Kabocha is a winter squash that is green on the outside and orange on the inside. It has a sweet and savory flavor. My host mom would serve it in miso soup, sauté slices of it, steam it, make it into croquettes, use it in tempura, boil it, wrap bacon around kabocha slices and fry it, and more! I live in Colorado and in the winter I can buy it at Whole Foods.
I’m so happy that Hollis sent me the solution to squash vine borers. Insect Netting can also work for all plants that don’t require pollinators. Let’s just cover them all with insect netting through their entire growing duration from seeding to harvest. Thank you for sharing your beautiful gardening journey. You are greatly appreciated.
I’m so thankful I found your channel this year! This is only my second year ever having a garden and I’ve realized that growing in the crazy Arkansas weather has its own challenges...I’m always checking your updates to see if our garden is “on track”! I live in Morrilton, so it’s been so encouraging to have your channel as a resource when I’m freaking out about a freeze or big storm or other random garden crisis to be adverted!
Also Jess re: the lantana, they go dormant in winter and look dead. It’s normal, they are also usually one of the last plants to break dormancy in spring.
I love how much you changed my mind on what hybrids were. For some reason they weirded me out. Deff appreciate the heirlooms too but its nice to not feel odded out by hybrids. Thanks!
And there’s totally a difference between a hybrid tomato that can deal with my humidity a little better vs. a gmo’d franken-soybean that can withstand roundup and doesn’t need any nutrients in the soil to grow haha
My brassicas overwintered here in Michigan with nothing but the tansies beside them for protection. Now they're flowering beautifully and will provide seeds for next year!
I need to tell you what a beautiful soul you are...Everyday now I watch you and the gardens and it has encouraged me to plant a little garden this year...Your love of life is so similar to mine and your knowledge is fantastic to me...I live in Nova Scotia, Canada....I cannot find the correct words to tell you how I love you and what you bring to my day :)
Lantana grows wild in my back yard. It dies back every winter, I cut the woody debris that is left in the spring, and it comes back beautifully every year.
Here in Queensland, Australia it is a pest! An introduced species that takes over the rain forest if you let it. We cant get rid of it here, it self seeds... but the bees like it. Very invasive with monster roots. And prickly!
Great video, as always! FYI, I read a thing about making your own landrace of a type of plant, so for example with squash if you tend to have problems then grow a few of a bunch of different kinds in a patch one year and pull up any that get powdery mildew, pests, other diseases, etc. and whatever's left, cross-pollinate those. See which ones are the most productive and last the longest and save seeds from them. The following year repeat using the seeds you saved. In a few years you should have squash plants that are resistant to your local pests and diseases and adapted to your climate and growing conditions! I've yet to try it but I do save seeds whenever a plant is especially healthy and productive with good yields.
Thank you for doing this! Gives the rest of us a chance to scan the list and double-check what to consider adding into our own gardens for next year! Kate
WOW !!! I so need You to help organize my life !!! Would You Be "Up for Adoption" by any chance ??? I promise to "Spoil You Rotten" (in a good way) LOL !!!
My family calls me king coleus because I love growing as many funky varieties as possible to collect seeds and they propagate so easily! I love your varieties, very different that second one!
Everything is looking so beautiful... we’ve had so much rain I’m just getting out to pick and prune several things.. you always amaze me with all the varieties you grow💚🌱💚
I’m in Jackson and went away for the last few days and sheesh! Haha came back to tons of picking and pruning to do!! And even with all the rain, I still have to water today 🤣🙈
I missed the previous garden tour and can’t believe how fast everything has grown. I started sweet angel tomatoes and bell peppers at the end of March and we are just now seeing tiny tomatoes. You were so right in your previous videos when you said it takes patience with tomatoes and as time passes you appreciate the process. I have a North facing first floor apartment(not much sun) so it’s growing a little slower🙂 You’ve inspired me to start even with limited space. Thanks for all your videos! I always try to keep up with all of them. You and your family are such a blessing❤️
I love your garden and completely agree with you about the whole black thumb thing. Like you I thought I had a black thumb and just then realized I never really cared to learn their needs and completely left it to chance and hoped for the best. But like everything else in life, they just require effort and they are so eager to please when you do just that. I plan to completely give up a couple beds to my children for them to plant and take over and tend to. The lessons they’ll reap will be invaluable. Thank you for what you do!
You have been an angel to me Jess. I love all your videos and your devotionals stir up a Love in me. Your garden just kills me but I love it. I live in 6b with no water. The clay and dry heat is hard on my garden but I see yours and I'm inspired. Even planted ground cherries to try.
Holy cow you guys must love spicy food! All those peppers!!! Having a terrible day with a lupus flair on the couch... thankyou and god bless you for this video to watch this afternoon... :)
Kale in the greenhouse is a year old and it bolted for us. I got busy, left it, it never got pollinated, and It's gone back to making leaves. Kale in the garden goes to the chickens when the worms get it so the chickens can put a dent in the life cycle of the cabbage moth. I'm growing atomic grape this year. It's setting fruit and when we taste it, I'll let you know if it tastes hoppy. Nasturtium seed is also supposed to be a natural dewormer for chickens. I love lemon basil and it reseeds all over my garden. I love pineapple tomato! It's awesome that your back to calling them Witchies! I water my squash heavily and then wait for the squash bugs to crawl up the stems. I hand pick them and give them to the chickens or you could go with a jar of soapy water. That butternut is a champ and the melons are looking good. When your peppers are small, snip the tops so the branch out and get bushy. That's awesome that Jeremiah has his own beds! It sounds like you've got everything covered.
WOW!!!!!!!!! That’s amazing.... this is my first year with my garden ... it’s such a baby garden right now ... lost most of my squash plant ... we had 9 inches of rain and they just rotted ... but I got to replant with peppers 🌶. Thankyou as always for this video ...❤️love you too ❤️😇💕❤️😇💕
I have been loving your videos lately. I’ve developed a passion for gardening and I’ve found that it’s helped me with my anxiety. Your videos give me inspiration. Thank you!! 🥰
My whole lifetime of gardening has been one huge experiment...and it's fun to try new things..at 59 my whole garden is an experiment this year..planted some in ground and trying new ways this year and doing trials to see what works best for me.
One thing you might like to try is to use a paper hole punch on the plant marker tags and zip tie them to the cattle panels a couple feet off the ground. They stay on well even in the wind or rain. Then just use a sic cord to cut them off at end of season.
Thanks Jess! Now my Saturday is complete.😊 Your garden looks fantastic. I don't envy you putting up all of the harvest, but it should be fun in that Beautiful new kitchen. Your pantry is going to look amazing with all of the food stored there. Be blessed 🙏
This is my first year gardening and I have had some crazy challenges especially with my tomato plants. I went on a short trip and came back and all of my tomatoes and peppers were extremely sad. They were all yellowing, droopy, and had brown spots. The tomatoes would not set fruit for weeks. I spent the week pruning them and caring for them as best as I could but was still worried. I watched this video yesterday as I was starting to lose hope for my little garden and then your talk about rehabilitating plants really lifted my spirits. I woke up this morning both of my tomato plants have finally set another fruit after about three weeks of the flowers just dropping off of them!
I read that the Italian trumpet zucchini sqwash that has a bulb at the end has a strong enough stem that vine borers can't damage it. Also it can be used as a winter squash. It also can be cut off daily and still stay fresh on the kitchen counter.
As a fellow Arkansan, I have learned so much from you. I have always been a backyard gardener but you have given me confidence to try new things. Just got seeds this week to get fall crops started.
I really enjoy your insights into different varieties as well the hybrid vs heirloom debate. You make an excellent point and I will feel better about my choices in the future. I know that I don’t need the extra pressure. I am proud of my garden.
I would love to see a what I eat in a week video to see how you use all your lovely fresh vegetables and what you can. One of my big garden challenges is figuring out how to use everything!
Love you, your family and your channel! I watch a lot of gardening videos, and yours are my favorite!! You are lovely, authentic, you know your stuff and you provide tips I don't see anywhere else!! The trick with the tomato suckers?!!! Genius!! Reminding us the possibilities of sowing multiple times during the season?!!! Brilliant!! We NEED those reminders!! EVERY year!! Hihi! Hugs from Quebec!❤🥬🍓👩🌾🌸
You can get the Yellow Canary zinnia seeds at Baker Creek - I got some this season from them 🤗 I am also growing the silver slicer cukes this year, I got my seeds from High Mowing Organic seeds...I’m in zone 5a in Vermont, so mine haven’t produced anything just yet...they are still wee...
Judith Mingram they might be out of stock. I definitely got them from Baker Creek, in fact I planted a few more today. They are called canary bird zinnias. I’d be happy to send you some if you’d like, my packet had over 100 seeds!
I've been putting our beet harvest off until July 4th, I'm making a greek salad I found from Sarah Raven that uses both the root and the leaves. Swiss Chard will also make it through to Fall and burst back fullness when it cools down again. The clematis will take probably 3 years to look good, ours did. Happy Sunday!
The garden is really thriving! I love those gladiolus and the canary zinnias, I usually don't grow flowers but seeing your potager style garden just made me want to embrace all the flowers! So this year I've planted so many flowers and I love the garden even more now, the diversity is amazing! Also just wondered why you have the sheet of metal in the garden path now? What are those small white bugs you have on your cherry tomatoes, I've noticed I have something similar. Those jersey devil tomatoes are funky! Such a cool shape!! Thanks for going through all the variety's, I get alot of inspiration from you in all senses but especially in terms of what to grow as its one thing to read a seed packet but it's really useful to see it actually planted in someone's garden and see how big it gets and how much it flowers or produces. Thanks so much, happy growing!
Every winter here in Sierra Vista, Az my lantana goes dormant. We are a 7b garden zone. In the spring I cut it to a nub on the ground and it comes back. I did have more success with it the less I watered it. I have a bougainvillea that dies back every winter as well. And it returns and grows again. Hopefully someday I can protect it from the frost so it can grow larger in the next season.
Hello Jess, I am a new follower of Roots and Refuge from SE Missouri and absolutely love your presentations. I have learned a lot about gardening from watching your videos. You are an inspiration and a joy to watch. Cape Girardeau, MO
You recommended a chair in the garden in a video... I want to thank you for this recommendation, this has helped me so much. I have a small garden in the city and found that with a recent loss in the family this was a good place to go and grieve and also at the same time enjoy what is growing in the garde. I would have not done this before. Your videos are so inspirational and all I want to do is work on my garden. Thank you!
I am growing the canary yellow zinnias as well! I ended up getting my seeds as a free seed packet from baker creek when I ordered my vegetable seeds for this summer.
Totally off topic, but thanks to you I pruned my tomatoes today for the first time ever. I also put them in cages and am hoping for a great tomato year! (I had given up on gardening, but my husband insisted...bless the persistence of the man of the house!)
Late watching your tour. I was busy working in my garden. I love your tour videos. They are so informative and relaxing. It's so nice to see how everything grows. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden with me. God bless 🌻💗🙏🌻💗🙏
I bought a tulle for covering my brassicas and it’s really helped with bug issues......they still get sun and rain but those moths don’t like the feel on their tuches ...😉 I made homemade weed killer from a gallon of vinegar,salt and some dish soap and it’s helped with taking out stubborn weeds and poison ivy.....
The yellow canary zinnias are BEAUTIFUL! I'm going to be looking for seed next year, to be sure. Your peppers have really taken off. I love those deep green leaves.
Love your content and I learn so much...that I dont have to experience myself...dont have the time..since I work two jobs..you have been a def blessing on my gardenlife
I am growing some of the same tomatoes! Morgage lifter, hillbilly, rose, Mr. Stripy, vintage wine. First year growing them all. I'm super excited to see how they do!!
Have you ever made basil cubes? I grow a lot of basil too, I use almonds oil and parmesan cheese and put it all in the blender and then in an ice cube tray to freeze. I call those pucks when froze just put into a container and freeze take a cube when you want to make fettuccine. Yummy!! Take care Jess.
I miss this garden 😢 I love your new one too ❤
You need a trash garden. My grandpa had a small space by the backdoor where he put all rescue plants, things he didn't think would live, and any kid experiments (this resulted in a grand avocado tree that lasted over 20 years until a particularly hard frost got it). We keep a trash garden now. It always becomes a favorite spot.
I love you! I have just started vegetable gardening and everyday I say to my husband "Jess said...."
Haha, I catch myself doing that and reporting on what David The Good said or did (he is a tropical garden researcher/author I follow for my zone.) Both teach me so much.
🤣😂 my husband also knows of Jess!! He fully supports the advice she gives 😁
Its my 2nd season growing but Oh my!! me too!!! Lol love my UA-cam university classroom with Jess ,Miah and Ben! (&their friends)lol
@@tinker651 mine too!
I do the same!
I love you Jess. I hope that doesn't sound crazy but I feel like you're a friend I never met in person. Thanks for being a bright light in this world.
Very true Happy big bright smart light to help us.😍😍😍
Doesn't she though! I feel that way to. A sweet friend that I've never met!
Jess is one of my best friends, that I haven’t met. 🤪 Thank you for the videos.
Watching them is better than therapy. And the old summer tour videos is helping me be patient with my seedlings.
A lot of the lettuce and tomato seedlings I’m growing like the Marvel of 4 seasons, Paul Robeson, Thornburn terra cotta, were bought because of things I’ve seen in your videos. You cost me a lot of money. 🤓
I look forward to growing an exotic salad garden this year. In my studio apartment.
I’ve been told I can’t do that especially without grow lights or grow cherry tomatoes upside without a trellis. But this is my third year of doing the “impossible”.
Thank you for the encouragement and validating my interest in gardening, saving seeds, preserving, cooking from scratch, and just allowing myself to experiment as I make my waiting room my classroom.
Btw, your advice you gave about video taping my garden has helped me document the growth in my “Garden Of Eden”, much more easily than writing it down. It also helped me acknowledge that while I don’t want to post pictures of my messy apartment online, I do like being able to notate the development of my plants.
In short…
You’re NEET-O!
🥰
I think the Brad's Atomic grpes taste hoppy too. You could your extra mint for your chickens, add dry mint to nest boxes and floor as a preventive for bugs and such plus your coop will smell extra fresh.
BRILLIANT!I can* learn as much from the comments as i do from Jess!Thank you!
Lindsey Curry My husband says my chickens probably have the best smelling bums in Missouri 😜 I make nesting box herb mixes for our girls as well. I also have over a dozen Brads atomic grape tomatoes growing, they’re so much fun!
@@Just-Nikki How do you tell when they're ripe?? I have pretty large, almost totally purple tomatoes with just a few green streaks here and there.
I hang extra herbs in my barn and when dried crush them up for the nest boxes it's great.
"I want to tell you absolutely everything " yesssss
would you ever consider doing a REALLY indulgent compilation (because I assume you'd have to film it over several harvests) of the types of tomatoes you're growing and their cross-sections/flavor profiles/uses? Or maybe even something like a "tomatoes of the week" bit?
Yes!
Tomato of the week!!! I love that!
Yes I love that.
Kinetic Kittens so many good ideas in this comment section 👍
I can see a farm to table restaurant and visitor center in the roots and refuge future... Getting chip and jo gates magnolia vibes watching how much the garden space and homestead is growing..... Also just really wish you guys would do that 😊😊
Hey I receive this! It’s my total dream!
I’m here for it!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Yeessssss! I can totally see it in my mind.... Goat milk, yogurt, cheese... The eggs, the garden.... School busses on field trips.... And maybe classes and seed swaps..... Sign me up as the first season pass holder 😁
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Omg I would love that!!
Absolutely
I love how you address judgy questions with non-judgy answers. Garden is beautiful! You have inspired me to embrace myself more. God's love to you.
She is such an inspiration in that way.
Great tour Jess! I think a lot of people might equate hybrid with genetically engineered, which of course they are not. An F1 is simply a cross that has not had enough generations to become stable and reliably grow true. Most of our heirlooms were crosses at some point.
These tours nourish my soul. I hope you show us your food prep /cooking for these veggies with the intriguing names and characteristics. I was brought up eating very plain, basic, inexpensive, somewhat over cooked foods that I did not really like very well. Think of those overcooked, unappetizing foods at the school cafeteria’s 55 yrs ago and you have the idea. Now I eat mostly raw fruits and veggies with dairy. But I want to learn. You do such a wonderful job with your videos and editing. Love Bear, goats, etc. your kids have a wonderful place to grow up/play. You are doing a great job with them. I really appreciate all you offer us. That kitchen will be
‘The bomb’ and can’t wait to see you and Miah’s creation. Thank you.
Uhg Jess, I so needed this today. Covid is so so wretched up here. Such a lonely single mom life! Thank you for being you 💚
Gardening at all levels has saved many of us from going bonkers over COVID and we couldn't have done it without fabulous people like you, Jess and Miah, and Ben (reminds me so much of another sweet boy).
Im a farmer that never leaves the hollar so I cant say I know how you feel or even know who you are but I just thought I would chime in and say.. Hang In There!! This to will pass!! Stay Safe and try to have a GREAT DAY!!!
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... I love each and every one 💕 of your garden 🌿 🍅 tours, Jess. ☺️🤗✝️
Good job with giving us notes on varieties and seed co.
Cant wait til I can retire and just garden...I work two jobs and still garden....my happiest time is working the earth..but I'm close..thank the Lord
On the Clematis, plant a shorter growing something at the bottom of the plant, as they like to have their feet covered. I wish my garden looked that good. I can't wait to get back in the country.
The Coleus is 'Stained Glassworks Presidio'. We use them for our seasonal color clients.
How in the world you remember all those names of tomatoes is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks for the tour! Loved it
Raising Mystery Tomatoes is like raising children. The mystery of waiting to see who they’ll be is miraculous. I think Benjamin gave you a super fun lesson in love, patience and curiosity! T
I love your channel!
Gardening is just that for me a chance to renew life ❤️🙏👨🏼🌾
I'm going back and watching garden tours again as I am starting seeds. I'm dreaming of all the varieties that will be in my garden this year!
I rarely comments but your garden is absolutely beautiful and interesting to rediscover! Thank you for this tour!!! ☺️
I love how Bear is always assisting You in these videos... It make me smile, especially when I imagine him with a clip-board making notes on everything You say... He's such a devoted gardener :)
I love seeing Ben in your videos and how sweet and helpful he is. Gardening is great especially when you have such a great helper.
I recommend growing Kabocha! It is such a delicious squash. My homestay mother in Japan cooked it almost every way possible and I never got tired of it.
What type of squash is kabocha? Never heard of it
@@gailpetchenik3048 It's grown heavily in Mexico, Japan, and Hawai'i (and probably some other places). In Japan, Kabocha is their word for pumpkin. Japanese people I spoke to have never eaten our orange pumpkin before (aside from starbucks pumpkin lattes!). Kabocha is a winter squash that is green on the outside and orange on the inside. It has a sweet and savory flavor. My host mom would serve it in miso soup, sauté slices of it, steam it, make it into croquettes, use it in tempura, boil it, wrap bacon around kabocha slices and fry it, and more! I live in Colorado and in the winter I can buy it at Whole Foods.
It’s delicious!!!
Wow i am impressed. I love jess's passion and zeal for gardening. Knowledgeable, very nice lovely character, perfect and beautiful lady.
I’m so happy that Hollis sent me the solution to squash vine borers. Insect Netting can also work for all plants that don’t require pollinators. Let’s just cover them all with insect netting through their entire growing duration from seeding to harvest.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful gardening journey. You are greatly appreciated.
I’m so thankful I found your channel this year! This is only my second year ever having a garden and I’ve realized that growing in the crazy Arkansas weather has its own challenges...I’m always checking your updates to see if our garden is “on track”! I live in Morrilton, so it’s been so encouraging to have your channel as a resource when I’m freaking out about a freeze or big storm or other random garden crisis to be adverted!
I love the way you put the text in for each plant! I’m making a long list for next growing season!!
Also Jess re: the lantana, they go dormant in winter and look dead. It’s normal, they are also usually one of the last plants to break dormancy in spring.
I love how much you changed my mind on what hybrids were. For some reason they weirded me out. Deff appreciate the heirlooms too but its nice to not feel odded out by hybrids. Thanks!
My mom who has been gardening forever. She’s over 80 she told me that not all heirloom things are great and not all hybrids are bad.
And there’s totally a difference between a hybrid tomato that can deal with my humidity a little better vs. a gmo’d franken-soybean that can withstand roundup and doesn’t need any nutrients in the soil to grow haha
This is my favorite part of the week!
My brassicas overwintered here in Michigan with nothing but the tansies beside them for protection. Now they're flowering beautifully and will provide seeds for next year!
I need to tell you what a beautiful soul you are...Everyday now I watch you and the gardens and it has encouraged me to plant a little garden this year...Your love of life is so similar to mine and your knowledge is fantastic to me...I live in Nova Scotia, Canada....I cannot find the correct words to tell you how I love you and what you bring to my day :)
Thank you so much!
Ben a.k.a. the garden boy, has such a infectious smile!!!
Lantana grows wild in my back yard. It dies back every winter, I cut the woody debris that is left in the spring, and it comes back beautifully every year.
What area are you in?
Here in Queensland, Australia it is a pest! An introduced species that takes over the rain forest if you let it. We cant get rid of it here, it self seeds... but the bees like it. Very invasive with monster roots. And prickly!
These are my favorite kinds of tours! Beautiful Jess!
I love your Garden Jess.Beautiful.I could watch forever.Thank you.🙂♥️
Great video, as always! FYI, I read a thing about making your own landrace of a type of plant, so for example with squash if you tend to have problems then grow a few of a bunch of different kinds in a patch one year and pull up any that get powdery mildew, pests, other diseases, etc. and whatever's left, cross-pollinate those. See which ones are the most productive and last the longest and save seeds from them. The following year repeat using the seeds you saved. In a few years you should have squash plants that are resistant to your local pests and diseases and adapted to your climate and growing conditions! I've yet to try it but I do save seeds whenever a plant is especially healthy and productive with good yields.
Chinese noodle beans
Lettuce (to save seeds)
Purple prodded pole beans
Rattlesnake pole beans
Zloty chamomile
Texas hill country okra
Silver slicer cucumbers
Armenian white long cucumber
Melons (volunteered)
chives
Delice de la table melon
Banana plants
Thai basil
Sweet basil
Leeks
Hot banana pepper
Purple opal basil
Blue dwarf sweet corn
Kajari melon
Cabbages
Beets
Thyme
Nasturtiums
Silverbeet Swiss chard
Kale-scarlet, blue curled, thousand head, dinosaur
Kalettes
Collard greens
Catnip
Pumpkin spice jalapeño
total eclipse squash
Ozark beauty strawberry
Arty the Artichoke
parision pickling cucumber
Mexican sour gherkins(cucamelons)
** bush beans
holy basil
TOMATOES- sun sugar, sweeties, sun golds, Napa Chardonnay blush, purple bumblebee, Amy’s apricot cherry, blue gold berries, brad’s atomic grape, sweet 100’s, splash of cream (variegated), Barry’s crazy cherry, striped German, costoluto genovese, jersey devil, rose, homestead, pineapple, mr. stripey, hillbilly, floradad, San marzano, climbing Trip-L Crop, Mortgage lifter, Homs II, Eva’s purple ball, Dr. Wyche’s yellow, vintage wine, persimmon, black beauty, Abe Lincoln, Paul Robeson, Cherokee purple
HIGH TUNNEL tomatoes: Jetstar, better boy, Amish pasta, bonnie’s best, Arkansas traveler, climbing trip-l crop, dr Wyche’s, blue beauty, Black beauty Kellogg’s breakfast great white, trip-l crop tree,
Abe Lincoln,
Jalapeños
Cayenne peppers
Habanada
Nadapeno
Gypsy sweet pepper
Candy cane variegated sweet pepper
Poblano
Bell peppers
Chili Marasal
Pasilla bajio
Fish pepper
Tobasco
Sugar rush peach peppers
Classic eggplant
Anaheim chili
Shishito
Edirne striped eggplant
Antigua eggplant
Pineapple ground cherries
Sweet potatoes-beuraguard, other red sweet potatoes
Jerusalem artichokes
Sherbert watermelons
Sugar baby watermelons
Red fingerling potatoes
Sweet meat squash
Butternut squash
Okra- burgundy, emerald, Clemson spineless, Texas hill country
Spaghetti squash
Honey nut squash
New England pie pumpkins
Sunburst F1 hybrid squash
Yellow crook necks squash
Pattypan
Zucchini
Lemon balm
Mint
Cantaloupe
Desert king melon
Orange glow melon
Moon and stars melon
Silver queen okra
Cucuzzi gourd
rosemary
ginger
Ancash market cucumbers
red Malabar spinach
Ground cherry
Tomatillo
Curly leaf parsley
Field peas
Coral zinnias
Roselle
marigolds
Roses
lillies
Tall trailing nasturtiums
Cutting sunflowers
Other zinnias
blue butterfly pea
clematus
Lantana (sp?)
Fig trees
Inferno coleus
Dahlias
Yellow canary zinnias
Sunflowers
I KNOW i missed some, but i kept having to go back because my ipad was changing my words, autocorrect ☹️😆 i tried!
wow! I'm impressed! Great help
Thank you for doing this!
Gives the rest of us a chance to scan the list and double-check what to consider adding into our own gardens for next year! Kate
THANK YOU ❣️❣️❣️
WOW !!! I so need You to help organize my life !!! Would You Be "Up for Adoption" by any chance ??? I promise to "Spoil You Rotten" (in a good way) LOL !!!
WOW! if you ever need a job, and have a local junior college, you might want to see about being a notetaker for students with disabilities. Good job!
My family calls me king coleus because I love growing as many funky varieties as possible to collect seeds and they propagate so easily! I love your varieties, very different that second one!
I really miss this old content of yours. So I’m watching all your old stuff for spring inspiration
Everything is looking so beautiful... we’ve had so much rain I’m just getting out to pick and prune several things.. you always amaze me with all the varieties you grow💚🌱💚
I’m in Jackson and went away for the last few days and sheesh! Haha came back to tons of picking and pruning to do!! And even with all the rain, I still have to water today 🤣🙈
I missed the previous garden tour and can’t believe how fast everything has grown. I started sweet angel tomatoes and bell peppers at the end of March and we are just now seeing tiny tomatoes. You were so right in your previous videos when you said it takes patience with tomatoes and as time passes you appreciate the process. I have a North facing first floor apartment(not much sun) so it’s growing a little slower🙂 You’ve inspired me to start even with limited space. Thanks for all your videos! I always try to keep up with all of them. You and your family are such a blessing❤️
I love your garden and completely agree with you about the whole black thumb thing. Like you I thought I had a black thumb and just then realized I never really cared to learn their needs and completely left it to chance and hoped for the best. But like everything else in life, they just require effort and they are so eager to please when you do just that.
I plan to completely give up a couple beds to my children for them to plant and take over and tend to. The lessons they’ll reap will be invaluable.
Thank you for what you do!
Jess, you can propagate a new tomatillo plant from a cutting from your existing plant. This allows you to jumpstart a larger second plant.
You have been an angel to me Jess. I love all your videos and your devotionals stir up a Love in me. Your garden just kills me but I love it. I live in 6b with no water. The clay and dry heat is hard on my garden but I see yours and I'm inspired. Even planted ground cherries to try.
Holy cow you guys must love spicy food! All those peppers!!! Having a terrible day with a lupus flair on the couch... thankyou and god bless you for this video to watch this afternoon... :)
Kale in the greenhouse is a year old and it bolted for us. I got busy, left it, it never got pollinated, and It's gone back to making leaves. Kale in the garden goes to the chickens when the worms get it so the chickens can put a dent in the life cycle of the cabbage moth. I'm growing atomic grape this year. It's setting fruit and when we taste it, I'll let you know if it tastes hoppy. Nasturtium seed is also supposed to be a natural dewormer for chickens. I love lemon basil and it reseeds all over my garden. I love pineapple tomato! It's awesome that your back to calling them Witchies! I water my squash heavily and then wait for the squash bugs to crawl up the stems. I hand pick them and give them to the chickens or you could go with a jar of soapy water. That butternut is a champ and the melons are looking good. When your peppers are small, snip the tops so the branch out and get bushy. That's awesome that Jeremiah has his own beds! It sounds like you've got everything covered.
WOW!!!!!!!!! That’s amazing.... this is my first year with my garden ... it’s such a baby garden right now ... lost most of my squash plant ... we had 9 inches of rain and they just rotted ... but I got to replant with peppers 🌶. Thankyou as always for this video ...❤️love you too ❤️😇💕❤️😇💕
I cannot believe how fast your garden grows! It’s unreal!
I have been loving your videos lately. I’ve developed a passion for gardening and I’ve found that it’s helped me with my anxiety. Your videos give me inspiration. Thank you!! 🥰
Thank you!
My whole lifetime of gardening has been one huge experiment...and it's fun to try new things..at 59 my whole garden is an experiment this year..planted some in ground and trying new ways this year and doing trials to see what works best for me.
I love your garden tours. It’s a highlight of my week. You give some good tips on why you grow the different plants. Love ,love it.
Garden tours on all my tvs during the break and it is such a happy day
You know I do not grow on your scale,but I am excited to see we are growing a few of the same things!
Yay garden tour. You are the highlight of our Saturday evening nowadays - a potter round your garden is far better than anything on tv.
These are the top ten videos on UA-cam, thank you for your good work and lovely garden!
One thing you might like to try is to use a paper hole punch on the plant marker tags and zip tie them to the cattle panels a couple feet off the ground. They stay on well even in the wind or rain. Then just use a sic cord to cut them off at end of season.
I have zinnias with red stripes and they come in all different colours. They’re called peppermint stick zinnias. The garden is looking so good 😍
Lateshia Anne I’m growing those this year and I can’t wait for them to bloom!
Glads never fail to be beautiful...grew them for years...and one of the most awesome cutting flowers you can grow and you can plant really dense..
Thanks Jess! Now my Saturday is complete.😊 Your garden looks fantastic. I don't envy you putting up all of the harvest, but it should be fun in that Beautiful new kitchen. Your pantry is going to look amazing with all of the food stored there. Be blessed 🙏
This is my first year gardening and I have had some crazy challenges especially with my tomato plants. I went on a short trip and came back and all of my tomatoes and peppers were extremely sad. They were all yellowing, droopy, and had brown spots. The tomatoes would not set fruit for weeks. I spent the week pruning them and caring for them as best as I could but was still worried. I watched this video yesterday as I was starting to lose hope for my little garden and then your talk about rehabilitating plants really lifted my spirits. I woke up this morning both of my tomato plants have finally set another fruit after about three weeks of the flowers just dropping off of them!
I read that the Italian trumpet zucchini sqwash that has a bulb at the end has a strong enough stem that vine borers can't damage it. Also it can be used as a winter squash. It also can be cut off daily and still stay fresh on the kitchen counter.
As a fellow Arkansan, I have learned so much from you. I have always been a backyard gardener but you have given me confidence to try new things. Just got seeds this week to get fall crops started.
Im so glad to hear that!
Best part of the week!! 🥰
I really enjoy your insights into different varieties as well the hybrid vs heirloom debate. You make an excellent point and I will feel better about my choices in the future. I know that I don’t need the extra pressure. I am proud of my garden.
I cannot wait until i see you harvesting all those tomatoes in the next few months!
I would love to see a what I eat in a week video to see how you use all your lovely fresh vegetables and what you can. One of my big garden challenges is figuring out how to use everything!
Love you, your family and your channel! I watch a lot of gardening videos, and yours are my favorite!! You are lovely, authentic, you know your stuff and you provide tips I don't see anywhere else!! The trick with the tomato suckers?!!! Genius!! Reminding us the possibilities of sowing multiple times during the season?!!! Brilliant!! We NEED those reminders!! EVERY year!! Hihi! Hugs from Quebec!❤🥬🍓👩🌾🌸
I sooo look forward to your garden tours and watch your channel every day. ❤️ Blessings
This tour was wonderfully thorough. Thank you for taking the time to post the names and give so much “side” info!
I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Those variegated tomatoes are so cool!
You can get the Yellow Canary zinnia seeds at Baker Creek - I got some this season from them 🤗 I am also growing the silver slicer cukes this year, I got my seeds from High Mowing Organic seeds...I’m in zone 5a in Vermont, so mine haven’t produced anything just yet...they are still wee...
Oh I just checked and they are not there! Are you sure it was baker creek? Do you remembdr the eact name? Thank you.
If I remember, it was a neon yellow, single petal, dark center, large flower. I would pay dearly to have that one!
Judith Mingram they might be out of stock. I definitely got them from Baker Creek, in fact I planted a few more today. They are called canary bird zinnias. I’d be happy to send you some if you’d like, my packet had over 100 seeds!
www.rareseeds.com/store/flowers/zinnias/canary-bird-zinnia
Still in stock at Baker Creek!
I've been putting our beet harvest off until July 4th, I'm making a greek salad I found from Sarah Raven that uses both the root and the leaves. Swiss Chard will also make it through to Fall and burst back fullness when it cools down again. The clematis will take probably 3 years to look good, ours did. Happy Sunday!
The garden is really thriving! I love those gladiolus and the canary zinnias, I usually don't grow flowers but seeing your potager style garden just made me want to embrace all the flowers! So this year I've planted so many flowers and I love the garden even more now, the diversity is amazing! Also just wondered why you have the sheet of metal in the garden path now? What are those small white bugs you have on your cherry tomatoes, I've noticed I have something similar. Those jersey devil tomatoes are funky! Such a cool shape!! Thanks for going through all the variety's, I get alot of inspiration from you in all senses but especially in terms of what to grow as its one thing to read a seed packet but it's really useful to see it actually planted in someone's garden and see how big it gets and how much it flowers or produces. Thanks so much, happy growing!
Every winter here in Sierra Vista, Az my lantana goes dormant. We are a 7b garden zone. In the spring I cut it to a nub on the ground and it comes back. I did have more success with it the less I watered it. I have a bougainvillea that dies back every winter as well. And it returns and grows again. Hopefully someday I can protect it from the frost so it can grow larger in the next season.
Gardening is a life long experience and experiment....we grow and we learn .
Everything is looking so alive- beautiful! Y'all are doing amazing!
Again thank you for stating where you are located and your zone on each video. I wish more channels would do that. Thank you for these videos.
That’s a lot of love and if you find something you love it makes the work a lil easier.
Hello Jess, I am a new follower of Roots and Refuge from SE Missouri and absolutely love your presentations. I have learned a lot about gardening from watching your videos. You are an inspiration and a joy to watch. Cape Girardeau, MO
Garden tour time!! Yesssss!! I love your new harvest vlog idea too! Hello from NC :)
I'm at home here with you in Arkansas. Thank you Jess for sharing your beautiful life with us all.
You recommended a chair in the garden in a video... I want to thank you for this recommendation, this has helped me so much. I have a small garden in the city and found that with a recent loss in the family this was a good place to go and grieve and also at the same time enjoy what is growing in the garde. I would have not done this before. Your videos are so inspirational and all I want to do is work on my garden. Thank you!
Praying for you while your heart heals. Grieve well. ♥️♥️
I can't wait to watch this again tomorrow night with some nice wine after my kid goes to bed 😍
Great idea!! 🍷🍷🍷🍷
I am growing the canary yellow zinnias as well! I ended up getting my seeds as a free seed packet from baker creek when I ordered my vegetable seeds for this summer.
Totally off topic, but thanks to you I pruned my tomatoes today for the first time ever. I also put them in cages and am hoping for a great tomato year! (I had given up on gardening, but my husband insisted...bless the persistence of the man of the house!)
Late watching your tour. I was busy working in my garden. I love your tour videos. They are so informative and relaxing. It's so nice to see how everything grows. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden with me. God bless 🌻💗🙏🌻💗🙏
Yay! I love the garden tours!🙌🏻😍
Was waiting for the tour. I love it!!
Greetings from the Netherlands
Jess l love your smile n the way you tour your garden thanks youto teaches us how to make my own garden .
I bought a tulle for covering my brassicas and it’s really helped with bug issues......they still get sun and rain but those moths don’t like the feel on their tuches ...😉
I made homemade weed killer from a gallon of vinegar,salt and some dish soap and it’s helped with taking out stubborn weeds and poison ivy.....
The yellow canary zinnias are BEAUTIFUL! I'm going to be looking for seed next year, to be sure. Your peppers have really taken off. I love those deep green leaves.
Love your content and I learn so much...that I dont have to experience myself...dont have the time..since I work two jobs..you have been a def blessing on my gardenlife
Your garden is always so inspiring! Loving the cottage garden too!
Thanks for labeling everything, it is hard to find seeds when you do not clearly hear what someone said or you do not know the spelling.
That’s was my hope!
That's how I make my list each year 🙂
I am growing some of the same tomatoes! Morgage lifter, hillbilly, rose, Mr. Stripy, vintage wine. First year growing them all. I'm super excited to see how they do!!
Wow! Such a great memory you have. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I bless you too!
Have you ever made basil cubes? I grow a lot of basil too, I use almonds oil and parmesan cheese and put it all in the blender and then in an ice cube tray to freeze. I call those pucks when froze just put into a container and freeze take a cube when you want to make fettuccine. Yummy!! Take care Jess.