Tomatoes are Dying and We're Making Tacos 🌮
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2021
- Join me on a stroll through the garden as we harvest for a taco dinner
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We're Jenn & Chris. We are millennial homesteaders on a small plant based hobby farm and modern homestead in Upstate NY, where we focus on sustainability, loving on all our animals, and enjoying wide open spaces. We're in our mid-twenties, balancing full time jobs, and also trying to share our lives with you along the way. Thanks for joining us for this video, we're excited to have you along for the ride.
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ADORABLE little guy, LOVE THE SHIRT, and as always thanks for sharing!
That hugel bed is really something, I am going to go back and watch your videos on that so I can learn how to build one. We have a surplus of tree limbs and other sorts of material that I think will lend itself nicely to that sort of growing.
Anxiety is tough, just know there are many, myself included, that smile and enjoy your beautiful growing space every time you post a video. Keep your head up mama, you're doing great!
Thanks Megan!! I so appreciate the encouragement
That's so cool that a volunteer artichoke survived a new york winter. I'm growing romanesco artichoke this year from seed. They are doing great, loaded with fruit in their first year. That was the first hurdle. Hopefully they can survive a canadian winter if i cover them
Oh that’s awesome! I’m going to try some different artichokes next growing season
Sorry about your tomatoes. You are such an inspiration! I am gardening for the first time because of you. I love your channel and learned so much.
It's only my second year gardening but I'm a lifetime New Yorker and I don't ever remember a summer this cold and wet. It's a little frustrating and very humbling to know that while our gardening skills will grow we'll never be totally in control.
So very true!! Very humbling and frustrating
I have never had blight in my garden until this year. Maybe the rain and the humidity in NJ? Your garden is still so beautiful, though! And, so jealous of your artichoke! Tell me what you do to it to get it to overwinter. Please! You are making me hungry! :)
I’m relieved I’m not the only one stressing over my garden. It’s so disappointing to work so hard and then have diseases and bugs 🐛 ruin plants. I’m dealing with grasshoppers eating everything. Tomatoes that won’t ripen due to the heat ☹️. Your garden looks so good though
The kitchen garden looks delightful. We have the same problem in our garden, we lost 99% of our tomato to blight, and we only have a handful of plants left. Such a weird weather in the spring and early summer. But that is what goes with organic gardening, no season are alike. Blessing to your beautiful family !
Thank you!! I’m so glad we put in the kitchen garden. Sorry about your tomatoes. Not a fun year as a gardener!
My tomatoes are struggling too, but you’re totally right that it’s important to find encouragement in everything that’s going well. Great looking tacos! I love seitan. It adds so much to vegan meals, and it’s crazy to think all that is just in wheat!
Who knew in NY I’d be harvesting loads of peppers before any tomatoes. All my tomatoes died within 3 weeks of planting them in May. I’m on my second planting and just getting green tomatoes now. I lost all my toms from seed except 4 and then a deer cut them down 😂😂😂😂😂 those thankfully are recovering but are super set back and the rest of my replacement tomatoes are from a local nursery. Thankfully I did two sowings indoors of things like eggplant and tomatos bc I lost all of them early on due to poor drainage in the soil. AND NOW!, With all the rain, even mechanical aeration isn’t gonna save my other plants but they seems to be doing way better than the first plantings. Ugh. This year with all the rain and my own hiccups in the garden it’s a rollercoaster for sure!!!
Oh no!! It sounds like you’ve been having a lot of the same struggles as me. I had someone offer to give me some tomato plants so hopefully I’ll be getting a second planting in soon. Not sure if we have enough time though
Japanese beetles here in Maine also...ugh!!! Your raised beds are beautiful! ❤️
Thank you!! & yes those Japanese beetles are annoying!
Nothing teaches you patience quite like the garden, does it?! Waiting for plants to thrive, waiting for the ecosystem to start rocking, riding out those unfortunate combinations of climactic conditions that cause pests and diseases to run rife ...... puts a serious dent in my ability to be positive sometimes :)
Oh I 100% agree with that!!
That sucks about your tomatoes but everything else looks amazing! I'm jealous of your milkweed. I have some for monarchs but it's just kind of sitting there
Curious what Seitan you use? I haven’t found any I like
Hi, Sofie from Belgium here. We grow normally tomatoes in a greenhouse here. Because of the hot and dry weather the past years, we decided to try some tomatoes outside the greenhouse. They were thriving. And then came the rain, and more and more. I'm glad we had a lot of rain, because of the drought the past years, but unfortunately my tomatoes did not like it of course. Blight isn't something rare here, even not in the greenhouse. But it's a shame! I think my experiment would've worked in a dry summer. Love to see your garden, I absolutely loved your artichokes. Do you can other things than tomatoes? Love to learn more how you preserve your harvest. One little note at the end, can you try not to shake and swing that much with your camera? (I get a little bit nauseous, but I want to see your content so bad, I stick through 😆) It also doesn't always give a clear picture when you zoom in, and yet again, I'm so curious! Thanks for the lovely videos and lots of luck with your garden!