Love how the first thing you said getting into your garden was “I should of brought a pair of scissor’s” whilst literally standing next to a pair on the ledge next to your zucchini lol 😂❤
I agree. Find an old mailbox and put it up in the garden area. Then you can keep your small tools like scissors in it and you will always know where they belong. Great video
Becky, your videos are a breath of fresh air within the homesteading genre. Whatever your resources, beliefs, or family goals are, the focus of your videos is always on the joy of growing and making beautiful and delicious things. I remember when you first got pregnant - I was so excited for you to start a family, but at the same time, so disappointed that this channel might start preaching family values in that insidious way that many channels do. (I want to take part in the joy of homesteading - not be reminded of what my life "should" look like.) I saw comments roll in asking for family updates and stopped watching for nearly a year in fear of what sort of guilt trip might await me. Well, I'm back, and you're just the same as always. I think it helps that you show us the mistakes alongside the joys. I love that you mentioned green beans as a great small-space plant. (I really only have a balcony to work with, so I'm making a mental note of that!) And I love that you mention your family trip and how it impacted garden planning - but that I get to just stay in the garden with you, marveling at the flowers, bees, and pumpkins. I wish you every happiness outside of what you show us on this channel, and I thank you for the simplicity of what we do get to see. It's a joy to follow along. 💛
Becky inspired me to get back into gardening at home. I am a horticulturist for a golf course, so I really let my yard go kind of wild as the last thing I want to do when I get home is pull weeds and prune and water. But when I started watching Becky she really reinvigorated my desire to garden more food at home. So now I have two of the green stalks! Which I don’t ever have to weed and watering so so simple! Huge space saver also. Now I can happily get my greens and herbs while staring out at my overgrown yard with joy 😊
21:05 - Love the coffee cup moment! My Grandma was a big gardener and her home was our playground. One time when we pulled up to her home, we saw her purse hanging on a tree nub in her garden. She had come home and got distracted by weeding her garden, leaving her purse behind in a tree. LOL. We found a few coffee cups over time as well.
Watching this video, I was remembering back to your first videos of your gardens at the last house. How you didn’t know what you were doing but you just plowed ahead and planted stuff! No markers so you didn’t know what was coming up, over crowding (chuckle, still happening!), but most of all, your fantastic joy at getting food to grow! Thanks for being you!
It's one of the things I admire most in Becky! She's always willing to try something and if something doesn't work out, she just keeps it moving and goes right ahead with another plan! No kicking herself or moaning about bad luck. Just "pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again" like the old song!
Your landscaping and gardening is so amazing. I tried raised bed gardening last year then had a stint in hospital and had to give it up. I did manage to have enough cucumbers for some great tzatziki sauce. You're inspiring me to get back into it next year.
Becky u have come such a long way from ur very first video of seeds to a garden 🪴 of produce. From moving , to growing ur channel as well as ur family , bravo young lady 👏🏼❤ 😊 not only do u inspire u also motivate .much love from Riyadh 💚🫶🏻
I live in Australia, so we are just coming in to spring. While i do have some stuff growing in the garden, Ive just started some seeds in mini greenhouses and am planning my garden. Love watching what you have grown and what you are harvesting! Im only renting so have 3 garden beds but excited to see what will come out of them at the end.
I live in the south. I’ve already torn out my food garden and have preserved my harvest. I don’t need to succession sow, since I had a good harvest. I’m waiting for a month to start my Fall garden. It’s nice to watch other gardeners who are just getting starting on harvesting.
Me too! Especially in their previous house. Tomatoes everywhere in the kitchen, in electric roasters, on the stove, and Oh the sauce she would make.... Love it!! ❤️❤️❤️
You are correct in thinking that you need to compost / amend soil in the spring rather than the fall. Doing so in the fall is of no use because the nutrients definitely leach out of the soil with rain / snow.
Gary, I may not ask a question in every episode but I learned so much from you and from all the questions from others. Thank you so much for all your knowledge and information! It is so appreciated.
Isn’t it just amazing, being able to walk out your back door, go down a hill, and pick food from plants you have grown?!? I enjoy watching you harvest from your garden. While you guys are enjoying blue berries, I’m sitting down here in TN munching on cantaloupe and watermelon. Peak sweetness, August!
You're singing my song about the tomatillos!! I bought two plants that produced VERY well and were grown in a greenhouse before I bought them, however, the fruit was small and was a variety that turned purple on the skin where it exposed to the sun. THEN, I had a ton of volunteer tomatillo plants sprout up in my beds, of which I saved only three... and wow what a producer they were! BIG fat hardy tomatillos that grew outside in the garden bed where I left the dying fruit from he year before. I just finished a batch of Tomatillo Salsa and Tomatillo-Chipotle Salsa (both Ball recipes) and still have tomatillos left. I wish I knew someone who would want them!
idk if you’ve ever made zucchini boats with your big zucchini’s but it’s a delicious dinner and they freeze really nicely! cook up some ground beef and season, add rice and some diced tomatoes and roast it all in a hollowed out zucchini
Your garden is looking wonderful. I'm in northern NJ and have already processed a years worth of ketchup, tomato soup, bbq sauce, salsa and starting to make sauce for the year. Our tomatoes went crazy this year. It's been either super hot, rainy or just cloudy and dreary all summer. We only grow our saved heirloom tomato seeds and by far this has been the best year ever.I have a Pink heirloom beefsteak that hits around 2lbs and the tomato is super meaty and great for any tomato projects. We also have striped roma, san marzano, and some giant red beefsteaks. All the cherry tomatoes are volunteers and growing all over the backyard. We also have Black Krim heirlooms this year that I've used to make our BBQ sauce because it has that smokey flavor to it. We make all our own compost, and never ever buy any. We found that making our own using our kitchen scraps, chicken, duck, quail and rabbit poo as well as grass clippings, leaves, tree trimmings, sticks , weeds, spent plants, logs, wood chips , cardboard, shredded paper work best for us. We are not introducing any outside store bought products. We make all our own fertilizer using comfrey leaves or a comfrey tea. We grow so we are not dependent on the stores and grow as much as we can in our backyard suburban garden.
I just love your videos. I learn so much from you. I enjoy the video length, how they are calming and easy to watch, and how often you post. I know it takes a lot of work to do all that you do, so I just wanted to let you know that.
watching your vids are really very relaxing and exciting for me..i just moved here in the US and im excited to have my own garden too little by little..im going back to your old videos to get some of the stuff that you are using and start from it little by little. me and my husband are just starting married life so praying in time i will also have my own garden😇 ..thank you for all the inspiring vids and i love your flower garden a loooot. God Bless you and your family more..❤
I planted pole varieties of green beans, purple beans and yellow beans on an arched trellis and it was beautiful with the masses of different colored beans hanging down. Easy to see and pick too.
Garden tours are my favorite! I get just as excited seeing how your garden is doing as I do in my own garden. My next favorite is seeing how you preserve your harvest. Third favorite is your big freezer meal days. This is my third season gardening and have learned so much right along with you, and from you! It seems like you don't have much pest pressure and I would love it if you would talk about that sometime. We have squash bugs something awful and they attack my curcubits every year! Keep up the great work!
I love the garden harvesting videos. I don't have a garden of my own and I get a vicarious thrill watching yours. Your obvious love and enthusiasm for your garden is contagious and you make me wish I'd gardened when I was younger! I did preserve some foods (blanching and freezing) if I could buy it at a good price from a farm market in my town. I worked with a girl whose uncle farmed broccoli and cauliflower commercially and at the end of the season she'd bring me humongous bags of both. I never owned a separate freezer - just the section of my fridge - but I'd clean and cut and blanch and package and freeze and then fill that up with my veg. I'd have enough to last us 6 mos - all free! If I'd had a freezer, she would have brought me four or five times as much and I'd have gladly taken it. Broccoli and cauliflower were our favorites (aside from green beans and zucchini). If I'd have had a garden...
I came back to thank you for making my vacation week so much better. I wound up being struck down by sickness. I started symptoms two days before my vacation and it went south quick. . Long story short...I was bedridden for five days and still struggling to get 100%. Its all good; Im crawling out. I just wanted to say that this is why I came across your channel. Silver lining for sure. It has been so fun to binge watch you. You have inspired me in so many ways. I just adore you and your family. Thank you Becky!
I’ve tried various ways of storing my dahlia tubers, zone 4a & stored them in the corner in. my food cellar in the corner of our basement. I cleaned them let them fully dry them marked each with magic marker the variety & then wrapped them in press n seal & stored them in a container with slightly moist vermiculite that had air holes for circulation. Almost all the bulbs were viable & healthy
What a wonderful time it is to go peach picking that’s August and Massachusetts and I love that you’re taking your family to go peach picking because that’s what my mom did with us. Good memories ❤️
I love it when you do a garden tour, what's working, what needs help, never know how a garden will produce, keep sharing and I'll keep watching, thanks Becky!
you can pick your Anaheims either green or red. Red tend to be a little smokier. Roast them, put them in a trash bag to steam, peel and seed (depending on hotness level). you can leave whole on the stem to freeze and you don't have to chop them up. That way you can make rellenos with the Anaheims as well. I come from NM where the Hatch chile that you see comes from. Glad that I could give you some tips after all the tips I learn on your channel :)
My husband was asking if I could do something for him. And he continued talking with me, with me showing no interest in answering him. Finally, he tapped me on the shoulder and asked, "Hey, are you OK? " and I responded, "Shhhhhh, I'm watching Becky!" And then we both had a great laugh... so, he left me alone! Love ya, Becky...❤
He sound like a great guy! 1. He didn't get mad, just came to find out why you weren't responding. 2. He understands Becky time and respects it! Give that man a big kiss and then help him with whatever he was asking about. ❤
@Lucinda_Jackson He's an amazing man of God. I'm truly blessed. But he really does love it when I try to make Becky's recipes. He also loves it when he knows I'm watching her... because then he gets the treats! ❤️
My garden is so small, but I do have a cherry tomatoe plant, italian flat leaf parsley, thyme, sage, green pepper & red pepper, jalapeño & chives in a raised bed I bought thus year. We live in a townhome with no outdoor space. All are doing well, except the peppers 😢. Because of patio space, I only planted 1 plant of each. I have a mint plant in a pot, and a cucumber plant...just doing okay. I have used the mint, and my cukes are sad, but I harvested one today 😊
If you end up planting the pole black beans next harvest season, maybe you should put them on the arch trellises. That would give them plenty of room to both grow, climb and then you'd have lots of beans hanging overhead once they hit this stage in our growing season. Pac Northwest for the slow grow and fun...
Your gardens all look amazing. It’s wonderful to see the fruits of your labor. I enjoy watching your garden grow and now the harvest. Great memories you are making for your family.
The Anaheim chilies are definitely ready and the color is perfect. My appetizer recipe is to butterfly them and fill them with mozzarella cheese, bits of fried bacon, and shaved parmesan cheese and grill them. If you want to make them more substantial, add a layer of white sandwich bread as the base and then add the rest. Enjoy!
Hi Becky. You might consider recharging some of your beds before you put them to bed in the fall and again in the spring. Then compare the results with the beds you just recharged in the spring. I know it's a lot of work; you may be pleased with the results. Thanks for your continuous efforts in sharing life as a very productive person! All the best to you and yours
You have such a beautiful and tidy garden, congratulations on winning in your beauty focus this year! You should definitely do a video on how you think about your garden plan in detail. Happy healthy plants and beautiful blooms! Well done!
An absolutely amazing garden, Becky! When you started showing your plans for all of those huge aboveground beds, I thought it was way too big! But, Wow! You do an amazing job keeping up with it. Great work! ❤
I love this video so much!! All the volunteers, a *coffee cup* 😊, you throwing weeds over the fence...all the things! Your flowers have been spectacular...when you said you wanted a lot of flowers this year I never dreamed it would be like this. The harvest you did today made me so happy...tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, jillions of peppers, those onions, etc. 😳 Abundance!! The pumpkins 😊 I've never had a garden...living vicariously through you is amazing!!
Hi Becky, I am a new subscriber and have binge-watched many of your past videos. At age 67 I have learned many new ideas and tips from you, your mom and your sweet commenter’s. Your home and gardens are very beautiful. I live in Kalama, Washington. ❤
You’re right about us being done with tomatoes. At 4:30am this morning, it was 90 degrees. And that’s not a typo..😵💫😵💫😵💫 Your lush and beautiful gardens are a refreshing sight.. 🥰🥰
Your garden is looking just beautiful ! Wonderful how you can come out to your garden "shopping" for dinner, desert, and preserving ! Have a great week ! 😁
I would probably put that lovely pumpkin on the trellis in a sling as the weight could pull it loose from the vine before it's fully mature. Like you I went bonkers with pumpkins this year, but I love growing them.
Hi Becky. I’m in the Portland area and each fall I gather as many leaves as possible and run over them with a lawnmower and put them on my garden beds. I’ve been doing this over 30 years and I have so many worms and weeds don’t grow through them at all. I also have lots of dahlias and leave them in the ground and if I want more I dig in early March and divide them. Be sure to mark the ones you like because after frost they all look the same. Your garden is beautiful!
Becky I’m in the Northeast. I didn’t plant tomatoes this year, but a volunteer grew. I just picked the first ones today. They’ve changed colors but aren’t fully ripe.
Love how you grow vegetables and flowers together. Stuffed Anaheim peppers blistered and cooked with soy sauce and some vinegar make a delicious dish to go with rice. I don't know of another good way to eat these sweet and slightly spicy peppers.
My Dad always left his dahlia tubers in the ground.. they're beautiful every year. A beautiful memory of Dad as he passed away 3 years ago. We still call them Dads dahlias. ( England)
My grandmother used to take her onions that were beginning to spoil and would boil them until tender, then cover with a cheese sauce. Absolutely delicious as a side dish and an amazing way to keep from wasting good food.
She is living the life we all would love to lead, almost too good to believe but I sure would miss her if she was not there in video, stay safe young lady and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
It's amazing what a difference you get from your onions and garlic when you feed them the way you're supposed to. Always cracks me up when people say they don't get big onions. I always ask did you feed them every week? No, well, then you get what you get. 😂😂😂
I stumbled across a video of a homesteader that explained about blanching your celery. 2-3 weeks before you are ready to harvest your celery, he takes file folders (you can use thin cardboard, poster board, etc.) and tapes them around the bottom stalks leaving the leaves open on top. This causes the celery to become lighter in color and milder in flavor.
Enjoying you video's. We break/folder over the onion tops to prevent flowering. This makes more energy to the onions for bigger size. Rather than the energy going to the flower
Love ❤your gardening. I moved to Cranbrook BC to be with family in retirement. I have followed you to assist my gardening decisions. And love your enthusiasm and knowledge ❤Thank you 🇨🇦❤️
I love your Garden Tour videos! A little tip from someone who has celeriac in the garden every year : If you push away the soil around the celeriac a little bit, the plant will form larger tubers :)! greetings from germany ❤
Okay! My mom hasn’t ever dug her dahlias or other tubers out of the ground in the winter. She covers them with a good amount of straw. She said that insulates them and prevents them from freezing. ❤
Love your garden I miss having the space. THe trellis: to keep from stressing the vine and to help it grow, I would recommend a length of cheesecloth (tie it to the trellis) and create a sling to help bear the weight (not just pumpkin stem). Easy to do and allows for maximum pumpkin growth. Good harvest!
You may wish to harvest and chop up your onions with seed stalks and freeze those chopped onions and dehydrate them as well. Then store your other harvested onions long term for fresh or cooking or later freeze/dehydrate.
I think you could put the seating area on the long wall and do storage/buffet where your office area in the kitchen is. Then you’d be able to have both of the needs/wants. You could maybe use a pretty China cabinet and put it in two pieces with the bottom on the floor and the top part hanging on the wall. I’ve seen pictures of people doing that so it’s like cabinets. It’s so pretty! And would probably fit perfectly in the area where you have your desk in the kitchen.
Runner beans can also be eaten fresh and sliced then steamed really nice best when they are smaller and haven’t got really big and long as they can become stringy then but you can defo harvest some and eat them steamed
Hi Becky, love your videos Wondering if you preserve berries. They are my favorite fruit. And your area in the NW is rich in berry production. May have just missed your videos on them. Would love to get some ideas on preserving these berries in different ways. Raspberries, strawberries, blackberries
Fantastic bountiful garden and with beautiful flowers. I have a mini veggie garden so I can imagine just how much work you put into the garden and the landscaping area to keep everything so perfect. It must bring a lot of peace and joy when you get to relax and enjoy your garden sitting with a cup of coffee overlooking the garden. ❤
Celery needs to be wrapped so they lighten in color and it gets rid of the bitterness. This is called blanching. You do this by wrapping each stalk with newspaper and tie it with a string, cover with a cylinder of some sort (i.e. a tin can with both ends cut out), mound dirt or mulch up the sides, a thick cardboard box around the whole celery area, or even shade cloth. I have done all but the dirt mounding and they work very well! The box and shade cloth are the easiest because you don't have to cover each individual plant. You can google/youtube it. Love your garden! Always look forward to your videos! Thanks Becky!
Becky, the compost feeds the soil which in turn then feeds the plants. They trade carbon (compost) for nitrogen (soil). A perfect symbiotic relationship!
What a lovely garden! I am in Houston and most all of my crops are burnt up from the heat and have already been chopped and dropped. I have one tomato plant, some herbs and 3 zucchini's that are still going. We have a few more weeks of close to three digit temps before we can start our second summer season. I love to see how different things are in different parts of the country.
Love how the first thing you said getting into your garden was “I should of brought a pair of scissor’s” whilst literally standing next to a pair on the ledge next to your zucchini lol 😂❤
Haha I didn’t even seem them until I was editing this video lol as my Grandma would’ve said if it was a snake, it would’ve bit me!
LOL i was thinking the same
I was thinking the same thing.
😂@@AcreHomestead
Me too
I agree. Find an old mailbox and put it up in the garden area. Then you can keep your small tools like scissors in it and you will always know where they belong. Great video
Becky, your videos are a breath of fresh air within the homesteading genre. Whatever your resources, beliefs, or family goals are, the focus of your videos is always on the joy of growing and making beautiful and delicious things.
I remember when you first got pregnant - I was so excited for you to start a family, but at the same time, so disappointed that this channel might start preaching family values in that insidious way that many channels do. (I want to take part in the joy of homesteading - not be reminded of what my life "should" look like.) I saw comments roll in asking for family updates and stopped watching for nearly a year in fear of what sort of guilt trip might await me.
Well, I'm back, and you're just the same as always. I think it helps that you show us the mistakes alongside the joys. I love that you mentioned green beans as a great small-space plant. (I really only have a balcony to work with, so I'm making a mental note of that!) And I love that you mention your family trip and how it impacted garden planning - but that I get to just stay in the garden with you, marveling at the flowers, bees, and pumpkins.
I wish you every happiness outside of what you show us on this channel, and I thank you for the simplicity of what we do get to see. It's a joy to follow along. 💛
Becky inspired me to get back into gardening at home. I am a horticulturist for a golf course, so I really let my yard go kind of wild as the last thing I want to do when I get home is pull weeds and prune and water. But when I started watching Becky she really reinvigorated my desire to garden more food at home. So now I have two of the green stalks! Which I don’t ever have to weed and watering so so simple! Huge space saver also. Now I can happily get my greens and herbs while staring out at my overgrown yard with joy 😊
21:05 - Love the coffee cup moment! My Grandma was a big gardener and her home was our playground. One time when we pulled up to her home, we saw her purse hanging on a tree nub in her garden. She had come home and got distracted by weeding her garden, leaving her purse behind in a tree. LOL. We found a few coffee cups over time as well.
My dad would put his glasses in his chest pocket and they would fall out when bending over in the garden . We dug up a few pairs over the years😂
What wonderful memories! Hope my grandchildren have just as many memories in my garden
Sugestion: maybe you could do a pantry tour before preservation projects start to show us what you used up from last years harvest
Great idea!
I loved the fairy godmother with her onion wand checking out her pumpkin patch.😊
Yup..,me too
Flowers make life more beautiful
Watching this video, I was remembering back to your first videos of your gardens at the last house. How you didn’t know what you were doing but you just plowed ahead and planted stuff! No markers so you didn’t know what was coming up, over crowding (chuckle, still happening!), but most of all, your fantastic joy at getting food to grow! Thanks for being you!
It's one of the things I admire most in Becky! She's always willing to try something and if something doesn't work out, she just keeps it moving and goes right ahead with another plan! No kicking herself or moaning about bad luck. Just "pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again" like the old song!
Your landscaping around the backyard is stunning!! Your grass is so lush and the flowers are just an explosion of color! Just amazing!
Your landscaping and gardening is so amazing. I tried raised bed gardening last year then had a stint in hospital and had to give it up. I did manage to have enough cucumbers for some great tzatziki sauce. You're inspiring me to get back into it next year.
Becky u have come such a long way from ur very first video of seeds to a garden 🪴 of produce. From moving , to growing ur channel as well as ur family , bravo young lady 👏🏼❤ 😊 not only do u inspire u also motivate .much love from Riyadh 💚🫶🏻
Midwest girl here. Nothing is prettier than a wheat field on a breezy day. It looks like an ocean.😊
Your garden looks great!!!!! Your hair is beautiful love it ! 👍🏻👍🏻
I'm from Kansas and you are so right about the wheat and also a field of sunflower 🌻
@@debbierobertson3173 wooo good one!
I live in Australia, so we are just coming in to spring. While i do have some stuff growing in the garden, Ive just started some seeds in mini greenhouses and am planning my garden. Love watching what you have grown and what you are harvesting! Im only renting so have 3 garden beds but excited to see what will come out of them at the end.
I pick off the first flowers on my pepper plants so to let the pepper plants grow bigger. This works and will produce more peppers.
I live in the south. I’ve already torn out my food garden and have preserved my harvest. I don’t need to succession sow, since I had a good harvest. I’m waiting for a month to start my Fall garden.
It’s nice to watch other gardeners who are just getting starting on harvesting.
Your big tomato harvest and preserving are some of my favorite videos you do!!
Me too! Especially in their previous house. Tomatoes everywhere in the kitchen, in electric roasters, on the stove, and Oh the sauce she would make.... Love it!! ❤️❤️❤️
The rain really helped your garden take off. It’s amazing how much rain can help plants thrive.
Why am I getting such a kick out of you using the onion flower as a pointer stick 😂 I love it 😂
I also thought that was a hoot and got a giggle😊
You are correct in thinking that you need to compost / amend soil in the spring rather than the fall. Doing so in the fall is of no use because the nutrients definitely leach out of the soil with rain / snow.
Gary, I may not ask a question in every episode but I learned so much from you and from all the questions from others. Thank you so much for all your knowledge and information! It is so appreciated.
Isn’t it just amazing, being able to walk out your back door, go down a hill, and pick food from plants you have grown?!? I enjoy watching you harvest from your garden. While you guys are enjoying blue berries, I’m sitting down here in TN munching on cantaloupe and watermelon. Peak sweetness, August!
You're singing my song about the tomatillos!! I bought two plants that produced VERY well and were grown in a greenhouse before I bought them, however, the fruit was small and was a variety that turned purple on the skin where it exposed to the sun. THEN, I had a ton of volunteer tomatillo plants sprout up in my beds, of which I saved only three... and wow what a producer they were! BIG fat hardy tomatillos that grew outside in the garden bed where I left the dying fruit from he year before. I just finished a batch of Tomatillo Salsa and Tomatillo-Chipotle Salsa (both Ball recipes) and still have tomatillos left. I wish I knew someone who would want them!
such joy watching you enjoying the fabulous produce from your abundant garden! So inspirational Becky !
idk if you’ve ever made zucchini boats with your big zucchini’s but it’s a delicious dinner and they freeze really nicely! cook up some ground beef and season, add rice and some diced tomatoes and roast it all in a hollowed out zucchini
I do that too. I use taco seasoning and add corn
Yum!
Your garden is looking wonderful. I'm in northern NJ and have already processed a years worth of ketchup, tomato soup, bbq sauce, salsa and starting to make sauce for the year. Our tomatoes went crazy this year. It's been either super hot, rainy or just cloudy and dreary all summer. We only grow our saved heirloom tomato seeds and by far this has been the best year ever.I have a Pink heirloom beefsteak that hits around 2lbs and the tomato is super meaty and great for any tomato projects. We also have striped roma, san marzano, and some giant red beefsteaks. All the cherry tomatoes are volunteers and growing all over the backyard. We also have Black Krim heirlooms this year that I've used to make our BBQ sauce because it has that smokey flavor to it. We make all our own compost, and never ever buy any. We found that making our own using our kitchen scraps, chicken, duck, quail and rabbit poo as well as grass clippings, leaves, tree trimmings, sticks , weeds, spent plants, logs, wood chips , cardboard, shredded paper work best for us. We are not introducing any outside store bought products. We make all our own fertilizer using comfrey leaves or a comfrey tea. We grow so we are not dependent on the stores and grow as much as we can in our backyard suburban garden.
I just love your videos. I learn so much from you. I enjoy the video length, how they are calming and easy to watch, and how often you post. I know it takes a lot of work to do all that you do, so I just wanted to let you know that.
The inflorescence is the branch with tomato blooms on it. Suckers are side shoots that form in the junction between branches and main stem.
watching your vids are really very relaxing and exciting for me..i just moved here in the US and im excited to have my own garden too little by little..im going back to your old videos to get some of the stuff that you are using and start from it little by little. me and my husband are just starting married life so praying in time i will also have my own garden😇 ..thank you for all the inspiring vids and i love your flower garden a loooot. God Bless you and your family more..❤
I planted pole varieties of green beans, purple beans and yellow beans on an arched trellis and it was beautiful with the masses of different colored beans hanging down. Easy to see and pick too.
Love that you walk through your garden in your house slippers 😆
I do the same.
Also love your excitement and enthusiasm; it’s contagious!
All the hard work planting the variety vegetables garden paid off. Congratulations! God is good.
These fruits look high quality and appealing.
Wow, somebody's going to be very busy. Lovely produce and those pumpkins are absolute stunners. We'll done Becky.👍👌💕
Garden tours are my favorite! I get just as excited seeing how your garden is doing as I do in my own garden. My next favorite is seeing how you preserve your harvest. Third favorite is your big freezer meal days. This is my third season gardening and have learned so much right along with you, and from you! It seems like you don't have much pest pressure and I would love it if you would talk about that sometime. We have squash bugs something awful and they attack my curcubits every year! Keep up the great work!
I love the garden harvesting videos. I don't have a garden of my own and I get a vicarious thrill watching yours. Your obvious love and enthusiasm for your garden is contagious and you make me wish I'd gardened when I was younger!
I did preserve some foods (blanching and freezing) if I could buy it at a good price from a farm market in my town. I worked with a girl whose uncle farmed broccoli and cauliflower commercially and at the end of the season she'd bring me humongous bags of both. I never owned a separate freezer - just the section of my fridge - but I'd clean and cut and blanch and package and freeze and then fill that up with my veg. I'd have enough to last us 6 mos - all free! If I'd had a freezer, she would have brought me four or five times as much and I'd have gladly taken it. Broccoli and cauliflower were our favorites (aside from green beans and zucchini). If I'd have had a garden...
I came back to thank you for making my vacation week so much better. I wound up being struck down by sickness. I started symptoms two days before my vacation and it went south quick. . Long story short...I was bedridden for five days and still struggling to get 100%. Its all good; Im crawling out. I just wanted to say that this is why I came across your channel. Silver lining for sure. It has been so fun to binge watch you. You have inspired me in so many ways. I just adore you and your family. Thank you Becky!
I hope you feel better soon.
Hope you are feeling better and she is soothing to listen to!
@@chattychatham606 Thank you!
I’ve tried various ways of storing my dahlia tubers, zone 4a & stored them in the corner in. my food cellar in the corner of our basement. I cleaned them let them fully dry them marked each with magic marker the variety & then wrapped them in press n seal & stored them in a container with slightly moist vermiculite that had air holes for circulation. Almost all the bulbs were viable & healthy
What a wonderful time it is to go peach picking that’s August and Massachusetts and I love that you’re taking your family to go peach picking because that’s what my mom did with us. Good memories ❤️
Hi Becky, just a fun fact for your Scarlet runner beans, the more you pick the beans the more it will produce flowers. 😊
I love it when you do a garden tour, what's working, what needs help, never know how a garden will produce, keep sharing and I'll keep watching, thanks Becky!
Becky is such a beautiful person its lovely to see her showing us all these versions of her in daily life.
you can pick your Anaheims either green or red. Red tend to be a little smokier. Roast them, put them in a trash bag to steam, peel and seed (depending on hotness level). you can leave whole on the stem to freeze and you don't have to chop them up. That way you can make rellenos with the Anaheims as well. I come from NM where the Hatch chile that you see comes from. Glad that I could give you some tips after all the tips I learn on your channel :)
My husband was asking if I could do something for him. And he continued talking with me, with me showing no interest in answering him. Finally, he tapped me on the shoulder and asked, "Hey, are you OK? " and I responded, "Shhhhhh, I'm watching Becky!"
And then we both had a great laugh... so, he left me alone!
Love ya, Becky...❤
He sound like a great guy!
1. He didn't get mad, just came to find out why you weren't responding.
2. He understands Becky time and respects it!
Give that man a big kiss and then help him with whatever he was asking about. ❤
@Lucinda_Jackson He's an amazing man of God. I'm truly blessed. But he really does love it when I try to make Becky's recipes. He also loves it when he knows I'm watching her... because then he gets the treats! ❤️
My garden is so small, but I do have a cherry tomatoe plant, italian flat leaf parsley, thyme, sage, green pepper & red pepper, jalapeño & chives in a raised bed I bought thus year. We live in a townhome with no outdoor space. All are doing well, except the peppers 😢. Because of patio space, I only planted 1 plant of each. I have a mint plant in a pot, and a cucumber plant...just doing okay. I have used the mint, and my cukes are sad, but I harvested one today 😊
Maybe check out ’becoming a farmgirl’ she has a townhouse also.
If you end up planting the pole black beans next harvest season, maybe you should put them on the arch trellises. That would give them plenty of room to both grow, climb and then you'd have lots of beans hanging overhead once they hit this stage in our growing season. Pac Northwest for the slow grow and fun...
I do the same thing Becky and use the garden as my treat for getting all my chores done.
Your gardens all look amazing. It’s wonderful to see the fruits of your labor. I enjoy watching your garden grow and now the harvest. Great memories you are making for your family.
The Anaheim chilies are definitely ready and the color is perfect. My appetizer recipe is to butterfly them and fill them with mozzarella cheese, bits of fried bacon, and shaved parmesan cheese and grill them. If you want to make them more substantial, add a layer of white sandwich bread as the base and then add the rest. Enjoy!
The baby pumpkins are adorable! Your whole garden area is beautiful !
Hi Becky. You might consider recharging some of your beds before you put them to bed in the fall and again in the spring. Then compare the results with the beds you just recharged in the spring. I know it's a lot of work; you may be pleased with the results. Thanks for your continuous efforts in sharing life as a very productive person! All the best to you and yours
Yes. Replace most of soil
You have such a beautiful and tidy garden, congratulations on winning in your beauty focus this year! You should definitely do a video on how you think about your garden plan in detail. Happy healthy plants and beautiful blooms! Well done!
An absolutely amazing garden, Becky! When you started showing your plans for all of those huge aboveground beds, I thought it was way too big! But, Wow! You do an amazing job keeping up with it. Great work! ❤
Hi Becky and Acre friends ❤😊 thanks for sharing Becky always a true pleasure 🎉❤
I love this video so much!! All the volunteers, a *coffee cup* 😊, you throwing weeds over the fence...all the things! Your flowers have been spectacular...when you said you wanted a lot of flowers this year I never dreamed it would be like this. The harvest you did today made me so happy...tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, jillions of peppers, those onions, etc. 😳 Abundance!! The pumpkins 😊 I've never had a garden...living vicariously through you is amazing!!
I am babying 2 tomatillo plants that I started and just saw 2 volunteers hidden behind my grape vines.
Hi Becky, I am a new subscriber and have binge-watched many of your past videos. At age 67 I have learned many new ideas and tips from you, your mom and your sweet commenter’s. Your home and gardens are very beautiful. I live in Kalama, Washington. ❤
You’re right about us being done with tomatoes. At 4:30am this morning, it was 90 degrees. And that’s not a typo..😵💫😵💫😵💫 Your lush and beautiful gardens are a refreshing sight.. 🥰🥰
Gotta love grocerie shopping in your own backyard!❤❤❤❤
Your garden is beautiful! I love all the flowers. You inspire me ☺️
Talk about a pumpkin patch!!! Bravo on your beautiful garden, Becky. That is a tremendous amount of work, faith, and patience. Blessings!
Your garden is looking just beautiful ! Wonderful how you can come out to your garden "shopping" for dinner, desert, and preserving ! Have a great week ! 😁
I would probably put that lovely pumpkin on the trellis in a sling as the weight could pull it loose from the vine before it's fully mature. Like you I went bonkers with pumpkins this year, but I love growing them.
Hi Becky. I’m in the Portland area and each fall I gather as many leaves as possible and run over them with a lawnmower and put them on my garden beds. I’ve been doing this over 30 years and I have so many worms and weeds don’t grow through them at all. I also have lots of dahlias and leave them in the ground and if I want more I dig in early March and divide them. Be sure to mark the ones you like because after frost they all look the same. Your garden is beautiful!
Tomatoes normally would grow along the ground especially if in the wild.
I LOVE your garden tours! I am SO AMAZED by your pumpkin patch!!!! Kuddos - good job!
Those X-large zucchini would make great mock pineapple .
Becky I’m in the Northeast. I didn’t plant tomatoes this year, but a volunteer grew. I just picked the first ones today. They’ve changed colors but aren’t fully ripe.
I really LOOOOVE your garden this year, a lot of random and volunteer plants, and a lot of new esperiments which I'm excited to see the results for 😍
Well looky there. A fruitful abundance for a fruitful harvest in a fruitful garden. What a treat to prepare for the coolest nights and a warm dinner.
Love how you grow vegetables and flowers together. Stuffed Anaheim peppers blistered and cooked with soy sauce and some vinegar make a delicious dish to go with rice. I don't know of another good way to eat these sweet and slightly spicy peppers.
My Dad always left his dahlia tubers in the ground.. they're beautiful every year. A beautiful memory of Dad as he passed away 3 years ago. We still call them Dads dahlias. ( England)
My grandmother used to take her onions that were beginning to spoil and would boil them until tender, then cover with a cheese sauce. Absolutely delicious as a side dish and an amazing way to keep from wasting good food.
She is living the life we all would love to lead, almost too good to believe but I sure would miss her if she was not there in video, stay safe young lady and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Your garden is a dream! So beautiful and so much work you have put in, great job 🩷
It's amazing what a difference you get from your onions and garlic when you feed them the way you're supposed to. Always cracks me up when people say they don't get big onions. I always ask did you feed them every week? No, well, then you get what you get. 😂😂😂
Your garden and yard are so beautiful. A testament to your hard work and I can see it gives you so much joy!
I stumbled across a video of a homesteader that explained about blanching your celery. 2-3 weeks before you are ready to harvest your celery, he takes file folders (you can use thin cardboard, poster board, etc.) and tapes them around the bottom stalks leaving the leaves open on top. This causes the celery to become lighter in color and milder in flavor.
Enjoying you video's. We break/folder over the onion tops to prevent flowering. This makes more energy to the onions for bigger size. Rather than the energy going to the flower
Love ❤your gardening. I moved to Cranbrook BC to be with family in retirement. I have followed you to assist my gardening decisions. And love your enthusiasm and knowledge ❤Thank you 🇨🇦❤️
I love how you touch and appreciate the flowers🥰The eucalyptus is beautiful. Still watching...
I love your Garden Tour videos! A little tip from someone who has celeriac in the garden every year : If you push away the soil around the celeriac a little bit, the plant will form larger tubers :)! greetings from germany ❤
I think your right. Composting and putting in slow release fertilizer and water based fertilizer will help alot.
A tip on your selleri: the strong flavoured ones you can dry and use for seasoning, like make a selleri salt. So delicious!
Okay! My mom hasn’t ever dug her dahlias or other tubers out of the ground in the winter. She covers them with a good amount of straw. She said that insulates them and prevents them from freezing. ❤
So am enjoying a tomato sandwich & potatoe chips & garden grown cherries always learn facts while watching you have great evening 🥗👍😃
Please share the day you harvest the additional garden items. I love watching.
Georgia here. I've already mowed down my tomatoes and started cool weather seeds. Love watching your climate and how you garden
Love your garden I miss having the space.
THe trellis:
to keep from stressing the vine and to help it grow, I would recommend a length of cheesecloth (tie it to the trellis) and create a sling to help bear the weight (not just pumpkin stem). Easy to do and allows for maximum pumpkin growth.
Good harvest!
You may wish to harvest and chop up your onions with seed stalks and freeze those chopped onions and dehydrate them as well. Then store your other harvested onions long term for fresh or cooking or later freeze/dehydrate.
I think you could put the seating area on the long wall and do storage/buffet where your office area in the kitchen is. Then you’d be able to have both of the needs/wants. You could maybe use a pretty China cabinet and put it in two pieces with the bottom on the floor and the top part hanging on the wall. I’ve seen pictures of people doing that so it’s like cabinets. It’s so pretty! And would probably fit perfectly in the area where you have your desk in the kitchen.
Runner beans can also be eaten fresh and sliced then steamed really nice best when they are smaller and haven’t got really big and long as they can become stringy then but you can defo harvest some and eat them steamed
GOOD EVENING BECKY WHAT A VEG HARVEST AWSOME TIME IN THE GARDEN WITH YOU
MARGARET LYNCH SOUTHERN IRELAND
I enjoy your garden videos the most. There have not been enough garden videos this summer. Thank you for today’s update.
Hi Becky, love your videos
Wondering if you preserve berries. They are my favorite fruit. And your area in the NW is rich in berry production. May have just missed your videos on them. Would love to get some ideas on preserving these berries in different ways. Raspberries, strawberries, blackberries
My favorite are harvest days! I've been meaning to mention you should grow your own Loofah on one of the trellis's.. LOVE LOVE LOVE all the flowers!
Deer do eat wheat Becky. It is used to toll deer in to good plots for hunting.
You should feel proud of yourself Becky. The entire garden is simply stunning. Well done😂😂
Fantastic bountiful garden and with beautiful flowers. I have a mini veggie garden so I can imagine just how much work you put into the garden and the landscaping area to keep everything so perfect. It must bring a lot of peace and joy when you get to relax and enjoy your garden sitting with a cup of coffee overlooking the garden. ❤
Celery needs to be wrapped so they lighten in color and it gets rid of the bitterness. This is called blanching. You do this by wrapping each stalk with newspaper and tie it with a string, cover with a cylinder of some sort (i.e. a tin can with both ends cut out), mound dirt or mulch up the sides, a thick cardboard box around the whole celery area, or even shade cloth. I have done all but the dirt mounding and they work very well! The box and shade cloth are the easiest because you don't have to cover each individual plant. You can google/youtube it. Love your garden! Always look forward to your videos! Thanks Becky!
Becky, the compost feeds the soil which in turn then feeds the plants. They trade carbon (compost) for nitrogen (soil). A perfect symbiotic relationship!
What a lovely garden! I am in Houston and most all of my crops are burnt up from the heat and have already been chopped and dropped. I have one tomato plant, some herbs and 3 zucchini's that are still going. We have a few more weeks of close to three digit temps before we can start our second summer season. I love to see how different things are in different parts of the country.