Me too I want to ask how you use all you grow? It looks like you grow more then you can eat lol but so great! Poll beans I like the idea of growing them but afraid no one would eat them. So I wanted to ask what you do with them?
Me too. This is going to be my first year trying to do a small supplemental garden for food. I would love to get ideas for storage, preserving/canning.
Jessica your longer tours I find relaxing and educational. You seem less rushed and less worried about time, which creates a more natural, comfortable way to learn audibly, while backing it up with visual teaching with your cute facial expressions and passion of growing touched by the Holy Spirit/ whole garden of eden thingy. All in all, like I tell my friends, your always a delight to watch, with your healthy and real, down to earth, family first, practical gardening facts and creativity. Looking forward to more of whatever you decide. I know it will be good. Thank you!
Yay!!! I’ve been waiting for the first garden tour!!! Can I make a request? Can you post a photo/photos of everything you’ve harvested each week? Like...a spread on your countertops/dining table? I’m always so intrigued to know exactly how much you harvest weekly, and what you do with it (does it get cooked/eaten fresh? Canned? Frozen?)
In her biography, Mary Berry, the host of The Great British Baking Show talks a lot about her mother’s victory Garden where they lived in Bath. Her Dad became the mayor after the war. It’s a lovely book. She discusses the gardens in many of her cooking shows available on You Tube and she still gardens to this day because of what her mother did. She’s 88. It’s so beautiful.
Jess: has like twenty gardens. Me, sitting in my apartment playing Animal Crossing watering my flowers: "I'm gardening! Well...sort of." Lol, I for one don't mind them being super long! My sister used to let me share her garden, but sheltering at home I can't do that right now, so I'm enjoying at least getting to enjoy it through you!
@Cali Daniels.... that's what I say when I play HayDay. it's my vicarious farming experience! My brothers get all the fun of working on our family farm which is 10 hours away from my in-town house. lol
Just walk the whole garen !!! Love to see everything 😁 Even if the vid's are 2,5 hour's 😎 That means 2,5 hours of relaxed garden info, inspiration and looking at a beautiful garden 😁 Who doesn't want that!
“Progress not perfection”. I would loooove a long garden tour. If it’s 2 hours, I will be watching all of it. I like to see other gardeners ideas, and just other peoples gardens!! Man, looking at mine each day is fantastic, but also- what else can I learn?
I threw my arm with a clenched fist screaming YYEEEEESSSSSS when I saw the video. We have beeeeeeeeeeeeen waiting for a tour. Lol i can't contain my exitement 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Jess, I could listen to you talk about your garden(s) for hours! Don't you dare cut any of the garden tours short! We are here because we want to know ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! 😂❤️🌱🌼💚
I LOVE HOW LONG AND FULL YOUR GARDEN TOURS ARE!!! Thank you for taking so much time and effort to teach us about different varieties and how well things grow with just some effort and knowledge. My family and I LOVE your videos and my husband and I sit to watch your videos with our boys everyday!
These tours make my heart hurt. All I want in the world is a little place where I can wake up and go right out to the garden and grow my food. Right now I'm gardening in a friend's yard and have to drive half an hour each way. I found a little place that's absolutely perfect for me; I just need a little boost. You are so very fortunate. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
I wouldn't worry about the length of the videos. Those of us who eager to learn do not complain. I for one love the garden tour. It gives me ideas what to do with mine and I love the value you add to your videos with all the different tips and advice. Keep up the fantastic job of being self-sufficient. You give hope to all of us!
I wouldnt care if your garden tours were 3 hours I would watch every minute of it. I love seeing how things grow and I am a total visual learner. I love everything you do. Thank you for all your time you spend teaching all of us.
Jess, your garden tours could never be too long for me. Its always so relaxing and enjoyable to be taken around your wonderful garden and this year will be even better with the new gardens you are working on. Thank you beautiful lady
The only enhancement I can think of is to use a drone at one or two places to get a cool perspective of how all your gardens are laid out. Otherwise...I loved the long video...super thoughtful and informative. Thank you!!
I have spring fever and I wanted to remember how it all started for 2020 😊 I think it's so important to remember where we came from to appreciate where we are now. Seeing empty beds, teeny noodle plants and baby Zinnia's help me appreciate how MUCH grew by the end of the season. There is so much beauty in every season, even our resting season. I'm going to be starting my 2nd year of veggie gardening and my 11th year of flower gardening. You inspire me so much and I thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us!
JESS I have gone back and watched all the 2018 and 2019 garden tours in preparation for this!!! I would 100% watch a 2.5 hour garden tour every week!!! So proud of you and your success.
I'm sure I speak for most of your audience, your garden tours are so cool. If anyone thinks they are too long they don't have to watch it. You and people like you are an inspiration to us gardeners. Keep doing what you are doing. Love Roots and Refuge and the family.
I would love to see the cottage and the big garden in a traditional long garden video like you do each week and then see a separate (slightly shorter?) video covering the high tunnel, potato gardens, sunflower garden, white garden, and the sunchokes. I think, especially while you’re pushing so hard to upload daily, having a second standard garden tour on the calendar would make all of us very happy and possibly alleviate some of the creative pressure of generating this much content. Regardless of what you decide, we will be so happy to have your content in our feeds. Yours are the only 40+ minute videos that I consistently watch. I have seeds started for a GreenStalk planter that I ordered to grow some veg in the little patch of sun inside my tiny little Brooklyn apartment during this uncertain, confined time, and your garden tours make me feel closer to home. Thank you for all of the care and kindness that you share with your audience. ❤️
Lolol I just got off UA-cam so I could get my garden projects started and then got a notification and said out loud “oh snap... I HAVE to watch that one” 😂 no such thing as too much inspiration!
LOVE your videos!!! I was just watching your garden tour when you mentioned having trouble with squash bugs. A few years ago I started covering the garden with leaves and fallen branches. Burn mini bon fires in the spring. Anyway since doing this I noticed a lot more assassin bugs and a lot less squash bugs. Last year I had both on every squash and pumpkin plant but it seemed like the assassin bugs were keeping them under control because most all the plants were very healthy! I think they were eating all the babies. We also had a bunch of praying mantis. Maybe the sticks and leaves helped attract the beneficial bugs.
You are so cute! "Plant something you just want to sit and look at." I just retired after 38 years as a psych nurse. Everything growing in my garden (now I have plenty of time to devote to it) qualifies as "Something I just want to sit and look at." And I do!
Make them as long as you need to in order to cover everything. I usually watch them as a break in the summer from the mid day heat so the longer the better! And I'm kinda jealous of how much garden space you have. Just the main raised bed garden is 4x the size of my apartment. Do you know how much my mind was blown when I connected those dots?!?!? But congratulations on the first garden tour of 2020!
I LOVE the longer videos! On a weekend having your super long garden tours just makes my soul shine and gives me a huge dose of motivation and inspiration! Please don't think you need to shorten your garden tours!! And those roses are phenomenally beautiful! Mine on my arch died for some reason. Now I know exactly what to do with that space. BIGGER roses and I can continue to sit on my bench under the arch and having my coffee. ❤🌹
I like long garden tours once in a while, but typically I enjoy watching a focus one spot at a time since I seem to get overwhelmed by too much info. Sometimes I will watch part of a garden tour and then come back later to watch the rest. You do what makes you happy and not overwhelming and we will just watch in a way that makes us happy and not overwhelmed too 😁.
Bring on all the garden tours! 😊 I'm military and only have a container garden so I love dreaming through your garden tours. The longer and more thorough the better ✌💜 also.... Run Ethel Run! 😆
Since you asked for feedback: I woud love to see the plant / variety name written down on a screen, because sometimes I hear the name and have no idea how to spell it. But I understand it may be adding a lot of work with editing, so I am not complaining. I don't have a garden yet anyway ; )
Your videos are never too long! I watch at night while I’m tidying up the house, washing dishes, or eating a snack. Your videos are always upbeat and leave me in a great mood. Not to mention inspired to plant more! I am so excited to watch all your stuff grow this year! It’s great watching the fruits of your labor come to be!
The Cottage Garden is magical......it is already named! One down....don't over think the names...keep it simple! You lead...WE WILL FOLLOW! Blessings to you & your beautiful family! 🌻
I love these long garden tour videos, it's really calming and just wonderful. Because of the slower pace and how thorought you are it feels like I'm walking beside you! Do what will be most convenient for you guys, I would absolutely understand if its to much work to film and especially edit really long videos every week but I would love to see the whole garden in each tour! Lots of love
Jess, I would definitely sit down for 2 hours to watch a garden tour. You are one of the biggest reasons I want to be successful at gardening. Your joy is contagious. You make the video, I promise I’m watching it!
I had to pause the video to comment about the celtuce. I've seen a similar vegetable grow on the Chinese cooking/gardening vlogs I follow. The usually grate up the stalk and make like a Chinese flavored salad/coleslaw with them. So fresh minced garlic, light soy sauce, sesame oil and some toasted sesame seeds and a drop of something spicy like Sriracha. Or you could grate it into quiche or scrambled eggs.....
The wartime kitchen and garden series is a wealth of information. Those people were the original trash to treasure for survivalist. Who could grow a garden shared and bartered with their produce. Most gardener love to share their produce. The show is a great lesson for the world. Lesson being love thy neighbor as thy self. There's far to little of that now a days
I'm one of the 2000 that are watched your first garden tour ever . I always silently watch, but watch them all :). I always watch them again in winter. I naar gardens at that time. Lots of love from the Netherlands
I would love to see an aerial view or drawing of your whole garden...gardenS...and how they’re all laid out. Im such a visual person. And yes, definitely name them all :) Love your videos so much! Your personality is so infectious and uplifting!
Totally honest: I usually dislike long videos from most of my channels, because they tend to seem like they're just trying to make videos, not show anything of substance. I appreciate your longer videos because yours aren't just fluff. You are a wealth of knowledge and you have true passion for what you do...that is exciting to watch. The way you just roll those different variety names off the top of your head amazes this scatter brained old lady. lol I feel as if we're "neighbors". I live just outside St. Louis in zone 6a & have lots of kin in Arkansas. I have a small subdivision yard garden and working toward restructuring it for my "golden years"... high raised gardens & high containers etc. You've taught me a great deal, thank you!!!
garden name ideas: cottage garden : izengarden FRont garden: Rose garden Potato garden: Potato patch Squash garden next to high tunnel: Sun garden (because of the sunflowers)
Celtuce kraut or slaw?I remember you getting a fermenting crock! I love Wartime Kitchen!It is so well done!"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy,Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
Celtuce is so fun! We grew it on the farm I worked at and i always had such a fun time explaining it to people. It's actually grown more for the stem than the leaves! Just strip the leaves off, and then peel the stem (make sure you get past the skin layer and any milky white liquid because its just like bolting lettuce - that liquid is SO bitter!) and then the stem is tasty and interesting raw or basically cooked however! I've seen people pickle it, roast it or put it in stir frys. Also I just found your channel recently and Ive been watching some of your old tours and last year you said to remind you not to put your peppers out too early! :) But anyway, I love your channel and I relate to your love and excitement for your garden so much! Excited to go through a season live with you this year! :)
(Also I didnt actually describe the flavor lol I think celtuce tastes pretty mild but really nice and fresh. Kind of similar to a cucumber, but unique... I'm terrible at describing flavors haha that's probably why i didnt the first comment)
Gardening is so much about imagining and patiently waiting for what our gardens will become in the future. Just imagine what this will be in springtime 3 years from now. It's going to be amazing!
I love your gardening tips during your tours. Last year I watched every video just to see how your Zucchino Rampicante did and how you liked it. I grew it last summer too for the first time but yours was ahead of mine. I have a lot of squash bugs too. I think splitting the garden tours in two between the front/cottage for one and the high tunnel/ back gardens for the other. That way you won't get so tired doing the whole thing at once and we miss lots of tips.
Your garden tours are never ever too long! Because of your garden tours I am now a garden dreamer! My very first raised bed garden is happening this year because of this channel! I’m obsessed and I thank you for helping me learn what I needed to achieve my dream garden!
I love it, I love it, I love it. No such thing as to long vlog from you. It inspires me, encourages me, and makes me so happy, and we need happy right now with the chaos of this world. God bless you and your family Jessica. Your are a blessing in my life. I started a miniature garden in my backyard, I only have a small backyard, but I'm going to plant as much as I'm able, even with my hurting back and arm. God is my strength. Love you guys. 😊😘❤🍅🥔🧅🥬🥦🌶🥑🦋🌻🌼⚘🌱
The realization of a "star" wanting my opinion and using her fan feedback is so strange to me 🤔😄 I'm a guest in your garden. It's my privilege to be allowed to view your life as you live and teach it. I'm along for the ride however you choose to do it. Unless you want to stop; then I'ma be heartbroken for me! 😭 But seriously: short ones make me long for more, long ones every week are my "mommy's watching her show and having her coffee, go play" treasures. I'm with you!
This makes me so happy! I love these garden tours! Make them as long as you want! I would watch them if they were two hours long :) heck make it like the Lord of the rings trilogy length lol :)
Hey Jess, my suggestion would be to film the front garden and the cottage garden as "Part 1" and all of the back gardens and high tunnel as "Part 2". I love seeing your garden tours and learning from you, but I do not always have time for really lengthy videos so if they were broken up into two, it wouldn't be extremely lengthy all at once and would give me more videos to look forward to! Thank you so much for everything, I love being able to share your space with you and see your adorable family and all the awesome animals! Keep inspiring us!❤
Robert Davis I would like a mini greenhouse inside a high tunnel. Wonder if that would work. I built a rocket stove that ran through a platform for my cold sensitive plants, I over wintered. Always wanted to try covering the platform.
LOVE the long garden tour videos. Especially this year. You can break it down to smaller areas here and there if you’d like but the weekly long tours are sunshine to the soul.
I have been looking so forward to the garden tours and if it was six hours it would be fine with me, LOL! I am a total seed nerd and have been for the last 16 years so I love seeing how each variety grows and does and I'm down in East Texas so fairly similar growing zone. Love it! So happy for all the big new garden spaces, I'm getting my first big one this year besides just my smaller raised one. So excited!
JESS! JESS! JESS! You are an amazing INSPIRATION to Me and so many Others! I’m so making more videos of my garden and adding more pics! Being a photographer myself, I So Appreciate You Eye For Composition and Good Filming!
Your garden is beautiful and reflects your inner beauty you and Myah have for growing the homestead gardening and life. I love the pattern to colors that shines in the styles each garden shows. What a gorgeous dream👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🐣🐖🐐🐓🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🐝🦋🦙🐑🐕🐕🦃🐈🐐🐐🐕🦺🌱🌱🌱💐💐🌳🥦🥕🥬🥒🍅🍓🧄🧅🍠🍉🍑omg! Your living the ultimate dream!!❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️
I love all of your videos! I have been gardening seriously for about 3 years now. Last fall I fell in love with Cottage Gardens after becoming obsessed with Monty Don lol. I really truly enjoy seeing your space and the similarities in what we want to do with our space. More than anything, I love your passion and your words of encouragement. So much so that I bought a shirt to help support what you are doing. I plan to buy many more. Thank you for sharing your passion and wonderful spirit with us ❤
My wife and I absolutely love your channel!! We saw your video was posted today and we both got excited to watch it! I told my wife that you are like the Joanna Gaines of gardening!! Thanks for sharing your garden with us. We learn alot from you.
Jess I have a chair by my flower garden & one by my veggie garden. I sit with coffee or tea & drink in the beauty & it fills my soul!!! Hooray...first garden tour! Many more to come. I BLESS the Sowards 😀🐔
Hard to watch without crying, longing for the garden we had as kids. We’re renovating my moms house w1/2acre in Vegas trying to get the well and irrigation systems back online. Need prayers & help after the House was abandoned for 10yrs!! You’re so inspiring ty so much for your vids. Hopefully I’ll get the courage to make some videos showing the progress & how awesome Vegas is for growing.
Kayla, this sounds so interesting! I would definitely watch your videos, if you were to go ahead and document your progress! Wishing you so much luck on your endeavour. 🍀🍀🍀 You can do it!
Don't get caught in the perfectionist paralysis trap! Absolutely enjoy the journey, as hard as it can be for an infj. I'm trying to practice it myself. The roses are beautiful. I can't wait to see all the progression of all the gardens! Yay spring!
I really enjoy watching your journey on feeding your family from your gardens. I especially enjoyed learning more about you and Mia and your faith. God is good!
Love these earlier tours. I am so glad you kept going. Your garden tours keep me company on my headphones while I garden my own space ❤ So grateful for you Jessica
The front garden should be called “The OG” (original garden), the garden next to the high tunnel should be called “Snack Garden”, the garden behind the back yard should be called “Jess’s Class Garden”. I love your long garden tours.
What I love about the internet is that it unites people who would otherwise never have a community. I can completely relate to your experience with the Heirloom tomatoes. Love your garden! Love your perspective & I miss the warmer AR climate!
Thank you for motivating me to grow a garden! I’ve never tried growing a garden, but with this pandemic, I have decided to give it a go. I probably have planted to much of different things my first year in a small space, maybe even at the wrong time, but it is way better than sitting on my couch. Had cancer 2 yrs ago and have a 5 year old and a 4 year old, so needless to say it has been a really busy few years. I’ve neglected my landscape, but I am so happy to say this year I feel good enough to try growing a garden and take care of my landscape. You are really inspirational. I’ve been watching your videos for about 2 months now, and I look forward to your daily videos. I have learned that it is a really great way to connect with nature and destress from everyday work and life. Please continue to share your videos with the world and inspire further everyday folks to get out and grow something! Take care, Auria
I love your garden tour’s love them so much 🥰 I always feel like I walking along with you 😁 I love hearing about all the different things your growing you always inspire me to grow different things that I’d never thought of before 🥰. I definitely love the long vlogs, especially now with everything going on in the world, your a welcome distraction from life. Thank you thank you for the beautiful vlogs your an amazing woman
If making these videos are like your journal and they help you make it through the winter, I would say make them as long as you want them to be. Document all the things you treasure about your space. 👍
Last fall I found out my dad had been diagnosed with cancer, we found out he is cancer free today! Your garden tour videos were how I coped through those first hard weeks, just watching them over and over. I'm so excited you are doing them again!
Your humble beginnings and current humility as well as desire to share success and failure are exactly why I cant wait to see you guys videos each week. Plus a bonus is I am zone 7a and you keep me on my toes getting stuff put out!!
Garden Tour thought: Do whatever has inspired you that week. I’ll be watching whether they are long or short videos. Let your gardening passion determine what you want to show that week or for that garden tour.
Wow! Such beautiful place to be! I’m so excited for the cottage garden to grow up. It reminds me of my grandmothers garden. She also had her greenhouse and woodworking shed surrounded by an incredible flower garden. 💚 I would suggest that after moving the bees you plant a large square grape arbor, in that section, in raised beds. It would be such a lovey place to add to your perennial orchard. Maybe to make garden tours easier you could break them into different videos to release throughout the week. Monday- Cottage garden video, Tuesday- Arched garden, Wednesday- Back In-Ground garden, Thursday- (Future)Greenhouse. Just an idea! ☺️ You guys work so hard and it shows! 💚🤗 Thanks for sharing its beauty with us!
First garden tour of the year! So exciting, I love seeing your garden especially as it grows on. I can't wait for the tours to gradually get longer either 😉. I think it would be good to tour the big garden and cottage garden in one video and then do all the back ones in another video Otherwise it'll be really long or you'll lose the thoroughness and that's what I love about your videos, the learning proccess that you share. Either way I know it'll be great, happy growing and bless you.
I'm so glad you posted footage of your garden in process. My garden is always expanding & "in process", but not on the scale of yours. I showed it to my husband to prove that I'm not the only one that is never content with just one garden space. Thanks for all your awesome videos.
For the garden tours I would just do a “quick” film of the entire yard and then focus in on wherever gardens have been having the most change that week. So then you still have your documentation of how everything is going but you also won’t have to be repetitive in some of the slower growing beds. Granted I will watch however long it is and however you do it 😂.
So exciting that the first garden tour of the year is up, and even more exciting plans of things to come! I love getting to go through all of the new growth and changes - maybe one long video of everything with time stamps for each area could be helpful so that those who need to could watch it in chapters? And anyone who complains about it being to long can just bump up the playback speed in the settings haha
Anyone else plan their whole day around seeing this as soon as it comes out? So pumped for this seasons tours!!!
Love you sweet girl!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm love You and your garden!!! I've squealed so many times already over all the beauty and only halfway through!❤️❤️❤️
And btw... Id totally watch 2.5 hour long tours😂
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Ayla Zeigler hey girl! 😊 I was suppler exciting to see this post also! 💗
IDEA: Special Tour.... Give Ben the camera and have him do a tour and tell everyone about the garden!
Guaranteed million views!! :D
That would be adorable. I would love to watch that.
I would totally watch a 2 1/2 hour garden tour every week 😊 so excited, it feels like the season has started for real
Idea “High Tunnel Tuesday’s”. Tours of the high tunnel that are separate from the main garden tours
Kirstin, That’s a fantastic idea
Love this idea!
yes please!
I would still love to see your pantry/food storage!
Me too I want to ask how you use all you grow? It looks like you grow more then you can eat lol but so great! Poll beans I like the idea of growing them but afraid no one would eat them. So I wanted to ask what you do with them?
Yesssss!! I watch other people kitchen and pantry videos and wonder how Jess stores hers!
Yesssss me too!!!!!!!!
How you can/store videos would be bomb!!
Me too. This is going to be my first year trying to do a small supplemental garden for food. I would love to get ideas for storage, preserving/canning.
Jessica your longer tours I find relaxing and educational. You seem less rushed and less worried about time, which creates a more natural, comfortable way to learn audibly, while backing it up with visual teaching with your cute facial expressions and passion of growing touched by the Holy Spirit/ whole garden of eden thingy. All in all, like I tell my friends, your always a delight to watch, with your healthy and real, down to earth, family first, practical gardening facts and creativity. Looking forward to more of whatever you decide. I know it will be good. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this encouragement
Yay!!! I’ve been waiting for the first garden tour!!!
Can I make a request? Can you post a photo/photos of everything you’ve harvested each week? Like...a spread on your countertops/dining table? I’m always so intrigued to know exactly how much you harvest weekly, and what you do with it (does it get cooked/eaten fresh? Canned? Frozen?)
Me: I'm so tired. I should have gone to sleep an hour ago.
Also Me: Ooooh! R&R just posted an almost hour-long video. Let's watch that right now!
Juliette Delta me so what lol
It's 5:05 and I'm going there too . Quarantine , Bite me !
In her biography, Mary Berry, the host of The Great British Baking Show talks a lot about her mother’s victory Garden where they lived in Bath. Her Dad became the mayor after the war. It’s a lovely book. She discusses the gardens in many of her cooking shows available on You Tube and she still gardens to this day because of what her mother did. She’s 88. It’s so beautiful.
I adore Mary Berry!
Jess: has like twenty gardens. Me, sitting in my apartment playing Animal Crossing watering my flowers: "I'm gardening! Well...sort of."
Lol, I for one don't mind them being super long! My sister used to let me share her garden, but sheltering at home I can't do that right now, so I'm enjoying at least getting to enjoy it through you!
I'm playing animal crossing also,stopped to watch this!
@Cali Daniels.... that's what I say when I play HayDay. it's my vicarious farming experience! My brothers get all the fun of working on our family farm which is 10 hours away from my in-town house. lol
Just walk the whole garen !!!
Love to see everything 😁
Even if the vid's are 2,5 hour's 😎
That means 2,5 hours of relaxed garden info, inspiration and looking at a beautiful garden 😁
Who doesn't want that!
“Progress not perfection”. I would loooove a long garden tour. If it’s 2 hours, I will be watching all of it. I like to see other gardeners ideas, and just other peoples gardens!! Man, looking at mine each day is fantastic, but also- what else can I learn?
I threw my arm with a clenched fist screaming YYEEEEESSSSSS when I saw the video. We have beeeeeeeeeeeeen waiting for a tour. Lol i can't contain my exitement 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
This blesses me so much!!!
Jess, I could listen to you talk about your garden(s) for hours! Don't you dare cut any of the garden tours short! We are here because we want to know ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! 😂❤️🌱🌼💚
I LOVE HOW LONG AND FULL YOUR GARDEN TOURS ARE!!! Thank you for taking so much time and effort to teach us about different varieties and how well things grow with just some effort and knowledge. My family and I LOVE your videos and my husband and I sit to watch your videos with our boys everyday!
These tours make my heart hurt. All I want in the world is a little place where I can wake up and go right out to the garden and grow my food. Right now I'm gardening in a friend's yard and have to drive half an hour each way. I found a little place that's absolutely perfect for me; I just need a little boost. You are so very fortunate. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
2 tours a week sounds like a great way to walk through everything with us.
That is what I was thinking too. Split the tours and then we have two a week to watch.
Agree!
I was thinking the same thing.
All the tours ! One for main one for back !
Make the videos how you want...don't make it a chore or you'll dread doing it. We'll watch no matter what :) ❤
OMG THE TIME IS HERE THE FIRST GARDEN TOUR YAY
Yay was just watching yesterday and hoping for a tour when I seen a lot of green coming out in your garden 💜💜💜
I wouldn't worry about the length of the videos. Those of us who eager to learn do not complain. I for one love the garden tour. It gives me ideas what to do with mine and I love the value you add to your videos with all the different tips and advice. Keep up the fantastic job of being self-sufficient. You give hope to all of us!
I LOVE these long garden tours. Make em as long as you want! They bring me so much joy and peace. Thank you for sharing!
I wouldnt care if your garden tours were 3 hours I would watch every minute of it. I love seeing how things grow and I am a total visual learner. I love everything you do. Thank you for all your time you spend teaching all of us.
Jess, your garden tours could never be too long for me. Its always so relaxing and enjoyable to be taken around your wonderful garden and this year will be even better with the new gardens you are working on. Thank you beautiful lady
The only enhancement I can think of is to use a drone at one or two places to get a cool perspective of how all your gardens are laid out. Otherwise...I loved the long video...super thoughtful and informative. Thank you!!
Oh man. That's a whole lot of garden. I cant wait for the 2 hour garden tours lol.
Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring me.
I have spring fever and I wanted to remember how it all started for 2020 😊 I think it's so important to remember where we came from to appreciate where we are now. Seeing empty beds, teeny noodle plants and baby Zinnia's help me appreciate how MUCH grew by the end of the season. There is so much beauty in every season, even our resting season. I'm going to be starting my 2nd year of veggie gardening and my 11th year of flower gardening. You inspire me so much and I thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us!
These vibrant t-post are giving me LIFE! How can you not be happy when you look at them? Jess you are giving me fomo with all the color!
JESS I have gone back and watched all the 2018 and 2019 garden tours in preparation for this!!! I would 100% watch a 2.5 hour garden tour every week!!! So proud of you and your success.
I'm sure I speak for most of your audience, your garden tours are so cool. If anyone thinks they are too long they don't have to watch it. You and people like you are an inspiration to us gardeners. Keep doing what you are doing. Love Roots and Refuge and the family.
I would love to see the cottage and the big garden in a traditional long garden video like you do each week and then see a separate (slightly shorter?) video covering the high tunnel, potato gardens, sunflower garden, white garden, and the sunchokes. I think, especially while you’re pushing so hard to upload daily, having a second standard garden tour on the calendar would make all of us very happy and possibly alleviate some of the creative pressure of generating this much content.
Regardless of what you decide, we will be so happy to have your content in our feeds. Yours are the only 40+ minute videos that I consistently watch. I have seeds started for a GreenStalk planter that I ordered to grow some veg in the little patch of sun inside my tiny little Brooklyn apartment during this uncertain, confined time, and your garden tours make me feel closer to home.
Thank you for all of the care and kindness that you share with your audience. ❤️
Lolol I just got off UA-cam so I could get my garden projects started and then got a notification and said out loud “oh snap... I HAVE to watch that one” 😂 no such thing as too much inspiration!
Hahaha it will make you work harder when you finally start!
LOVE your videos!!! I was just watching your garden tour when you mentioned having trouble with squash bugs. A few years ago I started covering the garden with leaves and fallen branches. Burn mini bon fires in the spring. Anyway since doing this I noticed a lot more assassin bugs and a lot less squash bugs. Last year I had both on every squash and pumpkin plant but it seemed like the assassin bugs were keeping them under control because most all the plants were very healthy! I think they were eating all the babies. We also had a bunch of praying mantis. Maybe the sticks and leaves helped attract the beneficial bugs.
I always wait to watch these videos while I work in the garden for inspiration and entertainment
Try Garlick spray on your plants for the bugs. Just crushed garlic in water.
I Love that no matter how much you expand it’s still a “garden”, attractive and homey!
The cottage garden is gorgeous! What a wonderful space!
You are so cute! "Plant something you just want to sit and look at." I just retired after 38 years as a psych nurse. Everything growing in my garden (now I have plenty of time to devote to it) qualifies as "Something I just want to sit and look at." And I do!
Make them as long as you need to in order to cover everything. I usually watch them as a break in the summer from the mid day heat so the longer the better! And I'm kinda jealous of how much garden space you have. Just the main raised bed garden is 4x the size of my apartment. Do you know how much my mind was blown when I connected those dots?!?!? But congratulations on the first garden tour of 2020!
Rewatching this video for about the millionth time 😂 not ashamed to say many of these views came from my rewatches!
I LOVE the longer videos! On a weekend having your super long garden tours just makes my soul shine and gives me a huge dose of motivation and inspiration! Please don't think you need to shorten your garden tours!! And those roses are phenomenally beautiful! Mine on my arch died for some reason. Now I know exactly what to do with that space. BIGGER roses and I can continue to sit on my bench under the arch and having my coffee. ❤🌹
I like long garden tours once in a while, but typically I enjoy watching a focus one spot at a time since I seem to get overwhelmed by too much info. Sometimes I will watch part of a garden tour and then come back later to watch the rest. You do what makes you happy and not overwhelming and we will just watch in a way that makes us happy and not overwhelmed too 😁.
When I was a child my grandmother gave me a small bucket of soapy water and it was my job to pick off garden bugs and worms into the bucket😊
Yer rite and they got a slew of bug pickers 😁
When I was little my Mom would give me a penny for every snail I found and threw into an old coffee can.
Bring on all the garden tours! 😊
I'm military and only have a container garden so I love dreaming through your garden tours. The longer and more thorough the better ✌💜
also.... Run Ethel Run! 😆
hahaha, run Ethel!!
Since you asked for feedback: I woud love to see the plant / variety name written down on a screen, because sometimes I hear the name and have no idea how to spell it. But I understand it may be adding a lot of work with editing, so I am not complaining. I don't have a garden yet anyway ; )
Your videos are never too long! I watch at night while I’m tidying up the house, washing dishes, or eating a snack. Your videos are always upbeat and leave me in a great mood. Not to mention inspired to plant more! I am so excited to watch all your stuff grow this year! It’s great watching the fruits of your labor come to be!
I love the long tours. With all the different vegetables, flowers and fruits you are growing.
The Cottage Garden is magical......it is already named! One down....don't over think the names...keep it simple! You lead...WE WILL FOLLOW! Blessings to you & your beautiful family! 🌻
I love these long garden tour videos, it's really calming and just wonderful. Because of the slower pace and how thorought you are it feels like I'm walking beside you!
Do what will be most convenient for you guys, I would absolutely understand if its to much work to film and especially edit really long videos every week but I would love to see the whole garden in each tour!
Lots of love
I agree!
Jess, I would definitely sit down for 2 hours to watch a garden tour. You are one of the biggest reasons I want to be successful at gardening. Your joy is contagious. You make the video, I promise I’m watching it!
I had to pause the video to comment about the celtuce. I've seen a similar vegetable grow on the Chinese cooking/gardening vlogs I follow. The usually grate up the stalk and make like a Chinese flavored salad/coleslaw with them. So fresh minced garlic, light soy sauce, sesame oil and some toasted sesame seeds and a drop of something spicy like Sriracha. Or you could grate it into quiche or scrambled eggs.....
bluestarrbeauty Holy moly that sounds delicious
The wartime kitchen and garden series is a wealth of information. Those people were the original trash to treasure for survivalist. Who could grow a garden shared and bartered with their produce. Most gardener love to share their produce. The show is a great lesson for the world. Lesson being love thy neighbor as thy self. There's far to little of that now a days
I'm one of the 2000 that are watched your first garden tour ever . I always silently watch, but watch them all :). I always watch them again in winter. I naar gardens at that time. Lots of love from the Netherlands
Yes, love them...don't want to miss even one
I would love to see an aerial view or drawing of your whole garden...gardenS...and how they’re all laid out. Im such a visual person. And yes, definitely name them all :) Love your videos so much! Your personality is so infectious and uplifting!
KIMBERLY MURRAY same!!
Possibly front/cottage one day, and then back areas another day?
This was going to be my suggestion. That way we see both each week, but it breaks it up. It will also allow Jess to be thorough on both videos.
I agree
Totally honest: I usually dislike long videos from most of my channels, because they tend to seem like they're just trying to make videos, not show anything of substance. I appreciate your longer videos because yours aren't just fluff. You are a wealth of knowledge and you have true passion for what you do...that is exciting to watch. The way you just roll those different variety names off the top of your head amazes this scatter brained old lady. lol I feel as if we're "neighbors". I live just outside St. Louis in zone 6a & have lots of kin in Arkansas. I have a small subdivision yard garden and working toward restructuring it for my "golden years"... high raised gardens & high containers etc. You've taught me a great deal, thank you!!!
garden name ideas:
cottage garden : izengarden
FRont garden: Rose garden
Potato garden: Potato patch
Squash garden next to high tunnel: Sun garden (because of the sunflowers)
Celtuce kraut or slaw?I remember you getting a fermenting crock! I love Wartime Kitchen!It is so well done!"Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy,Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope
Oh that’s a great idea!!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Let us know how it tastes if you do it!💖
Missing Kitten George in the garden tour!
With My Hands Homestead 😢😭😢
I had this thought too. Especially when she pointed out the catnip.
He recently passed a way. She had a video not too long ago. Will miss seeing him☹️. So sorry they lost him.
@@jessicagreen2351 Ditto.
So sad. I felt it when she talked about the catnip also. Should transplant some to his grave spot.
Jess please make a featured film every week of your entire garden! I would love that! 😍💕
Celtuce is so fun! We grew it on the farm I worked at and i always had such a fun time explaining it to people. It's actually grown more for the stem than the leaves! Just strip the leaves off, and then peel the stem (make sure you get past the skin layer and any milky white liquid because its just like bolting lettuce - that liquid is SO bitter!) and then the stem is tasty and interesting raw or basically cooked however! I've seen people pickle it, roast it or put it in stir frys.
Also I just found your channel recently and Ive been watching some of your old tours and last year you said to remind you not to put your peppers out too early! :) But anyway, I love your channel and I relate to your love and excitement for your garden so much! Excited to go through a season live with you this year! :)
(Also I didnt actually describe the flavor lol I think celtuce tastes pretty mild but really nice and fresh. Kind of similar to a cucumber, but unique... I'm terrible at describing flavors haha that's probably why i didnt the first comment)
Very cool. Never heard of this until now. Thanks for the info! :)
I will watch the garden tour no matter what! An hour? 45 minutes? An hour and a half? I don't mind either way! Just super happy to be watching! 🌱🍅🌻
I painted my t posts purple because it was the only paint I had. And I LOVE it.
Alison Beamon good for you
Gardening is so much about imagining and patiently waiting for what our gardens will become in the future. Just imagine what this will be in springtime 3 years from now. It's going to be amazing!
I love your gardening tips during your tours. Last year I watched every video just to see how your Zucchino Rampicante did and how you liked it. I grew it last summer too for the first time but yours was ahead of mine. I have a lot of squash bugs too. I think splitting the garden tours in two between the front/cottage for one and the high tunnel/ back gardens for the other. That way you won't get so tired doing the whole thing at once and we miss lots of tips.
Your garden tours are never ever too long! Because of your garden tours I am now a garden dreamer! My very first raised bed garden is happening this year because of this channel! I’m obsessed and I thank you for helping me learn what I needed to achieve my dream garden!
I love it, I love it, I love it. No such thing as to long vlog from you. It inspires me, encourages me, and makes me so happy, and we need happy right now with the chaos of this world. God bless you and your family Jessica. Your are a blessing in my life. I started a miniature garden in my backyard, I only have a small backyard, but I'm going to plant as much as I'm able, even with my hurting back and arm. God is my strength. Love you guys. 😊😘❤🍅🥔🧅🥬🥦🌶🥑🦋🌻🌼⚘🌱
The realization of a "star" wanting my opinion and using her fan feedback is so strange to me 🤔😄
I'm a guest in your garden. It's my privilege to be allowed to view your life as you live and teach it. I'm along for the ride however you choose to do it. Unless you want to stop; then I'ma be heartbroken for me! 😭
But seriously: short ones make me long for more, long ones every week are my "mommy's watching her show and having her coffee, go play" treasures. I'm with you!
April Stafford, I am so there with you. So beautifully put.
This makes me so happy! I love these garden tours! Make them as long as you want! I would watch them if they were two hours long :) heck make it like the Lord of the rings trilogy length lol :)
Hey Jess, my suggestion would be to film the front garden and the cottage garden as "Part 1" and all of the back gardens and high tunnel as "Part 2". I love seeing your garden tours and learning from you, but I do not always have time for really lengthy videos so if they were broken up into two, it wouldn't be extremely lengthy all at once and would give me more videos to look forward to!
Thank you so much for everything, I love being able to share your space with you and see your adorable family and all the awesome animals!
Keep inspiring us!❤
Do a compost pile in the high tunnel to heat it naturally over the winter
Robert Davis I would like a mini greenhouse inside a high tunnel. Wonder if that would work. I built a rocket stove that ran through a platform for my cold sensitive plants, I over wintered. Always wanted to try covering the platform.
LOVE the long garden tour videos. Especially this year. You can break it down to smaller areas here and there if you’d like but the weekly long tours are sunshine to the soul.
I have been waiting all spring for this!!!
You are an inspiration, on so many fronts.
I have been looking so forward to the garden tours and if it was six hours it would be fine with me, LOL! I am a total seed nerd and have been for the last 16 years so I love seeing how each variety grows and does and I'm down in East Texas so fairly similar growing zone. Love it! So happy for all the big new garden spaces, I'm getting my first big one this year besides just my smaller raised one. So excited!
We planted SOOOOOO many asparagus crowns as newbies (our neighbors are grateful). Not one regret!! They are worth the three year wait!
JESS! JESS! JESS! You are an amazing INSPIRATION to Me and so many Others! I’m so making more videos of my garden and adding more pics! Being a photographer myself, I So Appreciate You Eye For Composition and Good Filming!
Thank you so much, darling!!!
I always get excited when I see the lemon balm and mint bed coming back. It's like an old friend saying "the garden is coming!"
muddy ground makes great peach trees
Your garden is beautiful and reflects your inner beauty you and Myah have for growing the homestead gardening and life. I love the pattern to colors that shines in the styles each garden shows. What a gorgeous dream👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🐣🐖🐐🐓🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🐝🦋🦙🐑🐕🐕🦃🐈🐐🐐🐕🦺🌱🌱🌱💐💐🌳🥦🥕🥬🥒🍅🍓🧄🧅🍠🍉🍑omg! Your living the ultimate dream!!❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️
I will watch your garden tours no matter how long they are. I love them!❤ I gain sooo much inspiration,and I.......thank you!!!
I love all of your videos! I have been gardening seriously for about 3 years now. Last fall I fell in love with Cottage Gardens after becoming obsessed with Monty Don lol. I really truly enjoy seeing your space and the similarities in what we want to do with our space. More than anything, I love your passion and your words of encouragement. So much so that I bought a shirt to help support what you are doing. I plan to buy many more. Thank you for sharing your passion and wonderful spirit with us ❤
“Don’t let best detour you from good and done” whew that spoke straight to my soul ❤️
My wife and I absolutely love your channel!! We saw your video was posted today and we both got excited to watch it! I told my wife that you are like the Joanna Gaines of gardening!! Thanks for sharing your garden with us. We learn alot from you.
Jess I have a chair by my flower garden & one by my veggie garden. I sit with coffee or tea & drink in the beauty & it fills my soul!!! Hooray...first garden tour! Many more to come. I BLESS the Sowards 😀🐔
Hard to watch without crying, longing for the garden we had as kids. We’re renovating my moms house w1/2acre in Vegas trying to get the well and irrigation systems back online. Need prayers & help after the House was abandoned for 10yrs!! You’re so inspiring ty so much for your vids. Hopefully I’ll get the courage to make some videos showing the progress & how awesome Vegas is for growing.
Kayla, this sounds so interesting! I would definitely watch your videos, if you were to go ahead and document your progress! Wishing you so much luck on your endeavour. 🍀🍀🍀 You can do it!
Don't get caught in the perfectionist paralysis trap! Absolutely enjoy the journey, as hard as it can be for an infj. I'm trying to practice it myself. The roses are beautiful. I can't wait to see all the progression of all the gardens! Yay spring!
I really enjoy watching your journey on feeding your family from your gardens. I especially enjoyed learning more about you and Mia and your faith. God is good!
Omg your arbor roses are blooming! So longing for mine to start blooming!
I want one so bad too, gorgeous
Love these earlier tours. I am so glad you kept going. Your garden tours keep me company on my headphones while I garden my own space ❤
So grateful for you Jessica
The front garden should be called “The OG” (original garden), the garden next to the high tunnel should be called “Snack Garden”, the garden behind the back yard should be called “Jess’s Class Garden”. I love your long garden tours.
What I love about the internet is that it unites people who would otherwise never have a community. I can completely relate to your experience with the Heirloom tomatoes. Love your garden! Love your perspective & I miss the warmer AR climate!
Absolutely!!! Such a treasure!
YAY Garden tours have started!! So excited!
lol Jess, you aren't going to be able to say "my small homestead" for much longer!
Thank you for motivating me to grow a garden! I’ve never tried growing a garden, but with this pandemic, I have decided to give it a go. I probably have planted to much of different things my first year in a small space, maybe even at the wrong time, but it is way better than sitting on my couch. Had cancer 2 yrs ago and have a 5 year old and a 4 year old, so needless to say it has been a really busy few years. I’ve neglected my landscape, but I am so happy to say this year I feel good enough to try growing a garden and take care of my landscape. You are really inspirational. I’ve been watching your videos for about 2 months now, and I look forward to your daily videos. I have learned that it is a really great way to connect with nature and destress from everyday work and life. Please continue to share your videos with the world and inspire further everyday folks to get out and grow something!
Take care,
Auria
I love your garden tour’s love them so much 🥰 I always feel like I walking along with you 😁 I love hearing about all the different things your growing you always inspire me to grow different things that I’d never thought of before 🥰. I definitely love the long vlogs, especially now with everything going on in the world, your a welcome distraction from life. Thank you thank you for the beautiful vlogs your an amazing woman
If making these videos are like your journal and they help you make it through the winter, I would say make them as long as you want them to be. Document all the things you treasure about your space. 👍
Last fall I found out my dad had been diagnosed with cancer, we found out he is cancer free today! Your garden tour videos were how I coped through those first hard weeks, just watching them over and over. I'm so excited you are doing them again!
Your humble beginnings and current humility as well as desire to share success and failure are exactly why I cant wait to see you guys videos each week. Plus a bonus is I am zone 7a and you keep me on my toes getting stuff put out!!
Garden Tour thought: Do whatever has inspired you that week. I’ll be watching whether they are long or short videos. Let your gardening passion determine what you want to show that week or for that garden tour.
Wow! Such beautiful place to be!
I’m so excited for the cottage garden to grow up. It reminds me of my grandmothers garden. She also had her greenhouse and woodworking shed surrounded by an incredible flower garden. 💚
I would suggest that after moving the bees you plant a large square grape arbor, in that section, in raised beds. It would be such a lovey place to add to your perennial orchard.
Maybe to make garden tours easier you could break them into different videos to release throughout the week. Monday- Cottage garden video, Tuesday- Arched garden, Wednesday- Back In-Ground garden, Thursday- (Future)Greenhouse.
Just an idea! ☺️ You guys work so hard and it shows! 💚🤗 Thanks for sharing its beauty with us!
First garden tour of the year! So exciting, I love seeing your garden especially as it grows on. I can't wait for the tours to gradually get longer either 😉. I think it would be good to tour the big garden and cottage garden in one video and then do all the back ones in another video Otherwise it'll be really long or you'll lose the thoroughness and that's what I love about your videos, the learning proccess that you share. Either way I know it'll be great, happy growing and bless you.
I'm so glad you posted footage of your garden in process. My garden is always expanding & "in process", but not on the scale of yours. I showed it to my husband to prove that I'm not the only one that is never content with just one garden space. Thanks for all your awesome videos.
For the garden tours I would just do a “quick” film of the entire yard and then focus in on wherever gardens have been having the most change that week. So then you still have your documentation of how everything is going but you also won’t have to be repetitive in some of the slower growing beds. Granted I will watch however long it is and however you do it 😂.
Ashleigh Peterson Me too ! I was hoping it would lull me into sleep . NOPE
So exciting that the first garden tour of the year is up, and even more exciting plans of things to come!
I love getting to go through all of the new growth and changes - maybe one long video of everything with time stamps for each area could be helpful so that those who need to could watch it in chapters? And anyone who complains about it being to long can just bump up the playback speed in the settings haha