I lost my garden supervisor this past Sunday. My cat frankie had been with me the whole time I was on this property. He saw my garden go from one single 5x5 bed to over 40 bed and a bunch of fruit trees, bushes and vines. He spent more time in the garden then I did so he got a proper burial in a nice little spot right next to the vegetable garden where he can watch over it forever.
We've commercially raised fruits and vegetables for about 57 years. TBH I was getting sort of burnt out and frustrated. Each time I watch your video's I remember the passion one can have for growing besides just for profit. Now I think I'm motivated for another 50 yrs.
Love the reason for the suit, it’s so true. It’s not just for the country farmer, and homesteader, it’s for everyone. Thank you for all of the great content. Our permaculture garden took hits here in the south, but we are looking forward to the fall.
The best thing about your videos is your enthusiasm. It shows and flows through to your viewers. Our suburban growing space is tiny compared to yours, around 40sq ft plus some pots, but we still can gather fresh food from the garden year-round. Keep inspiring us to grow. We have very young nieces and a nephew who we are able to show that food doesn't have to come from a supermarket. Next-gen growers are under training for sure.
Really good tips! I’m 29, and though I’m still young I’m at the age where it’s very important to be self-sufficient. Gardening has really helped me with that, and I wish more people my age were doing it! I literally was in my garden when this video popped up. The suit looks sharp too. 👍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️s for Tuck.
Also about the critters, yes I can confirm that keeping water out where the birds can get it will help cut down on the tomato pecking. I have a small and large bird bath in my garden and I try to make sure I keep water in it everyday in this heat.
Great video James and Tuck I really appreciate your wisdom, since thanks to you and a few other gardening channels I was inspired to grow my own food and it was the best thing that has happened to me because gardening and videos like this helped me to have peace in a very tough depression I had and I truely appreciate what you are doing and I'm 17 btw. Thank you
🎉 My daughters are teen gardeners too! I am so proud of teen gardeners. They tend to be so adventerous with their seed choices. I am growing some cool mellons and Asian greens because of them.
I couldn’t agree with you more James, I started watching your videos in my senior year of high school - back when the pandemic first hit - and they offered so much great information on this incredible way of life in a time where I didn’t know what to do with so much spare time. I started planting apple trees and researching square foot gardening because of your videos and they changed the way I approached gardening, as well as the way I looked at the land that surrounded me. You’ve given me a fresh perspective on the bounties that nature has to offer. Thank you for providing people like myself with the resources, inspiration, and all around great content.
Ryan your comment brought me to have watery eyes( I'm not crying,your crying) so glad for your luck in finding this channel and finding a life long survival trait, that's also enjoyable,something positive from a time that was very questionable. Best of luck to you, and just gotta say, YES, we love Tuck!
As a young person your garden is truly inspiring. I started gardening when I was 13. It all started with one pepper plant, then a tomato, and then some beans. Today I have transformed my backyard into a thriving food forest. Even though I live in the suburbs I have learned that you can grow so much in a small space. Thanks for all you do! Love seeing Tuck
good for you, and love Tuck also... Loved it when James took a bite of that melon and was left speechless, looked at it, looked where it came from.... shakes head and raises hands in utter awe. Happy gardening, gr8 harvest to you !
@@omarvaldivia8297 Man, that is one thing I am trying to get down. I may get 1 here and there on a plant. 😄 I also have issues growing lettuce, radishes, anf beets, which I keep hearing are easy. I would still consider myself a seasoned beginner at this point and I've been gardening on the regular indoors and outdoors probably for the last 5 years or so. It's a journey...
@@wmluna381 With radishes and beets, I usually put them in a sandy soil to grow. With lettuce I sow the seeds in trays with pro mix soil then I transplant them out.
You’re a lunatic and I love it. Your energy and passion for growing food inspires me every time I watch your videos, often multiple times each because I learn every time I watch.
Hi James, Love your enthusiasm in this video. One thing I have wanted to see is how you use all the food that is generated by this incredible food forest. Do you give some away? or perhaps preserve or store them? or maybe you make incredible recipes and consume most of the food you grow. Anyway, I am sure I speak for most viewers when I say, we would love to see some content in this topic or maybe something like making a recipe using only things in my food forest. That would be cool. Thanks and appreciate your and Tucks Hard work and motivation!
Absolutely loved this video. Thanks for showing people that growing food is not just for the poor. Everyone should be growing their own food! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️for Tuck!!!
I love watching fellow NJ gardeners! You are an inspiration and make me and my sidekick, Beeks, happy to watch you and Tuck, and listen to your experiences and advice. I wish we could have an in person meet to compare NJ gardening notes! I come from a family of Vineland farmers, and love to see the Garden State properly represented.
James, with food insecurity all around, you remind us all that we can be secure like you, with a little hard work, and having a friend like tuck helps too.
No, that may sound good but it's not true. My garden got ripped apart by an angry manager who said I can't grow a garden in my yard (even though I've been renting here for 5 and 1/2 years) because it "looks bad". I don't have the resources to move. So no, we can't ALL be secure when some of us on the bottom of the totem pole have to follow rules and regulations lest we become homeless
@@amyrenee1361 - Amy, I'm sorry you had to experience that, I have owned a 2 family by myself for 11 years, If I ever had a tenant I would be happy to let them have a garden in my yard. Something they have for gardeners like yourself a few towns over is a community garden, which is very inexpensive to rent a plot, and sometimes I just go there to get ideas from other gardens on how to improve my gardening techniques. The last time I was visiting there a person that was renting a plot gave me a bunch of fresh garlic bulbs... Where there is a will, there is a way!
I am proud to hear you are caring for your wildlife. Setting up solar water fountains (made from a simple 20” circular dish from store & $15 solar powered pump from eBay ) was the first thing I added in the garden for passerby animals. Also, Quench the bird’s thirst & they stay for a insect snack or two :)
hi james im new to your channel and to gardening but i wanted to say thank you for your enthusiasm and encouragement to grow our own food. i am slowly recovering from severe food scarcity and homelessness during the pandemic and having some agency over my growing my own food has really helped my healing process. thanks for helping me get my plants off the ground! :D
Gardening now is for everyone. Any age over age 3 (children well-supervised if very young). Patios, balconies, small and large pots, indoor tiny hydroponics under lights with available machine kits, small and larger raised bed outdoor gardens, in-ground rows and plots, and yes, interplanting poly cultural gardening in yards with space for fruit vines, bushes, and trees in addition to both annual and peri annual plants. Thank you for your inspirational videos. I have now had many seeds sprout for my late Summer and Fall vegetable gardens here in the NW AZ desert garden (less heat and monsoon rains here).
I literally have probably watched all your videos with my son we live in we live in PA the next state over and have a back deck container garden and we love it and you inspire us daily love your energy thank you!
I love your garden everything looks so beautiful and delicious. I started my own garden I really don't know what I'm doing but watching you and listening to your advice my garden is really growing my strawberries blueberry lime carrots peppers are doing beautiful. The first time actually saw fruit growing out of the plants. I started crying it was very emotional for me just want to say thank you you are the best🥰 I live in Jersey too I love the dog🥰🥰🥰 watching him eat the vegetables you give him totally adorable
Such great points! Growing your own food is so underrated. Thanks to your guidance, I’m sure more people will start. We were just talking about adding water containers to the garden, it’s just been so dry. Keep up the amazing inspiration! Thank you!
I’ve been harvesting tomatoes when they just start to turn color to save them from being half eaten. Taste is still awfully good. I use nylon bags on my elderberries. The birds get theirs and I get mine. The jays got all the cherries this year - next year I’m bagging them too! Beautiful as always James! I love your infectious joy!!
James!!! Tuck the boss and James the king back at it again!!! You inspire us all with your beautiful food forest. I learn so much from you! Thanks for changing my life. We love you guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
I have chickens that love when there’s food produced in the garden that humans can’t eat. Probably why their eggs are delicious, bright orange yokes and birds are very happy when I enter their run. Do you still have chickens? I’d love to see you bring them scraps. More people need to learn how to incorporate chickens into their garden spaces for fertilizer, pest control and fresh eggs.
My main man JP in the garden with a full two piece suit on! Now that’s what it’s all about! Bring Tuck along with you in his suit next time if it’s not to hot for the little soldier. Stay blessed and keep sowing & growing my friend! ❤️❤️❤️ your channel! -Calvin
Looking great in the suit...excellent reason indeed, the reality is that life is getting harder, we must do what we can to contribute to our own survival...gardening is wonderful and very rewarding...
You have inspired me to garden that is a sure thing. I live in an apartment in a big city. Last year, I had a few pots on my balcony. This year, I have a few more and I have rented a small space in a community garden. With the exception of a few tomatoes and peppers in Juin and July, I haven't bough any vegetables from the store. I also have frozen green beans and pickles for the whole year. I am also hoping to get enough tomatoes to make some salsa and tomato sauce for the year as well. Next year, I hope to start growing berries in my smart pots. Thank you for inspiring us :)
My garden is 40' x 16' and all my neighbors love the taste of all the organic veggiesI've been sharing with them. Thank you for all the info I've retained from your videos. Keep up the good work and God bless you sir. ❤
Interesting hypothesis on the critters seeking a water source. Something started gnawing on my low-hanging tomatoes in the last week or so and that coincides with the summer heat ramping up. Edit to add: that's a gorgeous cabbage.
Hi James. I purchased 100 Organza 8” x 12”, with draw string bags, for my tomatoes. These bags allow for good air circulation. As you mentioned the birds and varmints, are going crazy this year because of the Hot and dry weather. As soon as the tomatoes start turning pink, I surround clusters with a bag. Working excellent so far.
Our kid is in primary school and we teach them about the importance of growing food, even though sometimes they are not interested or bored of hearing me talk about it! lol A lot of the time though, they do want to help out in the garden come planting or harvest time. They are interested when we first set up the wormery as were their friends too, talking about the type of worms, what their eggs care called and why worms are important and not just because they eat our food scraps! They also went to nature club after school and planted some runner beans to bring back home and made a bird feeder from a used plastic milk bottle. It is never too young to start learning about gardening. There are so many things you can do, grow and regrow inexpensively. No matter the the size of your living space, you can grow at least something edible. Even in a block of apartment flats, if one place grew something different and swapped it with another neighbour that in itself it doing something. It's not about mass farming or waiting until you have retired to a house with a big garden that you should be thinking about starting to grow food.
I love ur energy! Look sharp in the suit but I was worried about how hot u were. Stay cool and don’t over heat urself. Great garden. It looks absolutely stunning!!
Hey Team Tuck! Best team video yet!! I weigh the pursuit of any endeavor in terms of the benefit to my future self and the health and wellbeing of my family (wife and fur kid). In other words I like learning about the best investment of my time. Learning and doing over time is a big part of the that and if it growing my own food did not have an intellectual side, I don't think I could stick it out for more than one season. No matter how big your growing space is, you have a lab to experiment in. As the great gardener Hannibal Lecter said in Silence of the Lambs..."Love your suit". Cheers!
We got so many cukes after watching James' pruning cucumbers video. We also started some in pots for a fall/winter garden. Transplanting was successful and had one extra cuke plant w. blossoms to give away. Got our first cuke already from new plants. We are in Central Connecticut.
Inspiring. I'm no longer young, but I love trying to grow food. My biggest joy is when something sprouts from my compost and food waste. I have more success with that than with purchased plants.
Wow, Mr. P, when I saw this video and listened to the intro, it dawned on me why I love watching your videos so much-YOU ARE JUST LIKE JOEL! You are the Jersey Joel! He is a hero to me too. I rewind and watch each of your videos over and over because, just like Joel, you say a whole lot in between doing your thing, and I don’t want to miss a thing. You are wise beyond your years. Can’t wait to see what the harvest of all of your videos will be. Hugs and high fives from Northern California
I love your channel. Love your excitement. Love seeing your love of homegrown food. Love Tuck. Your channel is a joy, and in turn, gives all of us viewers joy. Your enthusiasm is contagious! Best wishes!
You’ve created a magnificent backyard food forest! Tuck is lucky to have you hanging out with him. My Honey loves hanging out in the garden, but doesn’t eat anything I grow. She’s more into it for ‘protecting’ me from whatever visits the garden.
So to all those who think getting in touch with the land is a poor man's way of life....we eat better than those ignorants ever will! Growing your own food is the most honest work anyone can do!
My son-in-law, in his 40’s, has begun gardening this year for the first time, and he is ON FIRE! So excited about growing food! It’s awesome to see! Another son-in-law has a great helper in his little 6-year-old son - my youngest grandchild - and they have a beautiful garden full of good food.
What you have grown is absolutely amazing! Hardly any damage from pests. I have a small garden and plant in containers and window boxes. Perfect hiding places for snails. My Chinese cabbage leaves get reduced to stalks overnight. The drumhead cabbage were attacked by cabbage worms. Caterpillars have already started to make their appearance. Can we please have a video on how to get rid of different pests organically. I have just sown over 20 different types of vegetable seeds and would love to harvest as much as possible.
The water for the critters is important in many ways, particularly in more rural places. Growing up on a horse ranch, we would place shallow pans of water in perimeter locations well away from the animals and well traveled areas for the rattlesnakes. The would come deep into the property after water in the hot summer months in southern California. The pans went a long way to keep them away from the horses, dogs and the family. I wonder, does Tuck have a special bark when certain critters come into your space?
I know you want to ripen your tomatoes on the vine but you really don't need to do that.. you can even pick them when they go from the light green/white to just a tiny bit pink and they will fully ripen with all the flavor within about a week on your kitchen table or someplace out of the sun.. (no deep dark green near the stem and a slight tint of pink at the top and it will ripen off the vine) I am about 100 miles from you about the same climate and situation but you have more shade... we were going to get hit by a hurricane a couple years back and I remembered someone taught me that.. if its just a tiny bit pink you can even pick it.. so I went out and harvested about 150 tomatoes... and sat them on my kitchen table on newspaper and I would sort them.. green to red every day.. and every one of them was good to eat... If you find you are having situations and you have healthy fruit that is not 100% ripe but its a great specimen then pick it.. don't wait.. test it before you need to do it for real and then you won't doubt it if you need to ... you're crazy in that suit heh its been painfully hot and humid the past week or so .. best wishes.
I've been picking tomatoes when they are just blushing, and they ripen just fine on the counter and taste great too. I've heard that the plant will produce more if you pick earlier. However, I was recently reading that tomatoes that ripen on the vine have more nutrients, such as lycopene, than those that ripen off the vine. Better nutrition is one reason I garden. So, for now, I'll pick at various stages and see how it goes. If I find that the critters & pests ruin the ripe tomatoes, it's back to picking all when they blush.
You guys are adorable. My husband and I are 50 so not young gardeners but enjoying it. Today I picked strawberries tomatoes green beans bell peppers squash and cucumbers from our garden. Yours is incredible!
I took your advice on focusing on perennials first, this year got some black berry bushes, fig trees, and straw berries planted. Also have some peach seeds germinating from farmers market peaches. Very excited
Hey James Love your channel and your energy. But as I see you pick this and that I wonder if you have the same frustrations as I do here in Philly. I'm inundated with squirrels and groundhogs that devour my tomatoes, beans and melons just as they are ripening. Wondering if you could speak to your own battles with critters?
Critter netting and deer corn has worked for me. Also, if you have a guy in the home have him pee around your beds every now and then. Just make sure he can aim
They've been real bad for me down in Florida this year. Started going after green tomatoes even after they'd hit all the ripening ones. I've been trapping them and releasing them in some woods across from my neighborhood and it has helped tremendously!
I live in a regular terraced house so I don't have that much space for growing, however I pick my tomatoes when they start to turn colour only the tiniest bit. They will ripen inside the house and are completely safe from critters!
You are the Best I have been following you for years I don’t comment that much but I am here Thank you for doing what you do and sharing your Skills and Knowledge with the World!
Haha, it was only one of the hottest days of the year. Nah I got this suit a few years ago when I went to a friends wedding and it has just sat there since. So I got inspired by my man Joel Salatin and the next thing I new I was sweating half to death in a suit picking veggies. 🤷♂️
Gardening is a revolution. Which is why they don't want us to do it. Whoever controls the food controls the people. Love your channel, been watching since the beginning and the evolution of your garden.
You continue to inspire us ❤️ While we dream of having a bit of land we have a deck 3 floors up and grow blueberries, peas, shallots, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, arugula , kale and strawberries 🎈❤️🎈 Go Tuck!!!
So jealous of your tomato collection! Im from the north of Scotland where it can be pretty touch and go successfully growing tomatoes outdoors. Love that you've built an incredible little food forest!
Nothing like vine ripe cantelope! It’s a different melon from store bought… My grandma alway tapped with her toe, if it came off the vine it was ready.
James you are a trooper, you do everything to show people that they CAN grow a garden. Your food is so amazing and the critters know they can get tastey, organic, mouth watering food there. Looks like next year you should grow a critter garden along side yours.👍👍👍👨🌾🐶💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕👨🌾🐶👍👍👍
I'm a single mum in order to pay bills and mortgage I grow food to feed my family. The flood in Australia wiped it out a few months ago but were getting ready to start again. I'm doing some in pots to begin with incase it floods again
I’m 19 and started my own garden at 18 , I’ve been doing it for a year now and I’ve done a lot and learned a lot In just 1 year. I went from growing strawberries, raspberry’s and some cucumbers to growing pumpkins , squash , corn , beans , all sorts of veggies , jute , sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers , kiwis , garlic , onion, weed(: , watermelons , grain plants like Job’s tears , Amaranth , millet , also growing mulberry’s , apples now , paw paws , Jublee , pineapple guava … I’m growing many plants😂😂 but I just wanna say thank you for being a good source for enough and also all the valuable advice you give every video. I couldn’t have been so successful this year without you man! So thank you a lot for that! I plan on making my life’s work around plants! Once again , thank you man🙏🏻
Your good. I garden daily. I am in SW and could never wear a suit while gardening, even on my deck. I melt after 5 mins of just inspecting my potted fruit and vegetable plants and have to take multiple breaks. I love your content and love Tuck too. ❤
Looking spiffy in that suit, James! I want to thank you for your videos. I've been following along for a couple years now, and this season my 4 year old son has been particularly interested in your videos. Everyday we watch a garden harvest together!😁☺️ Thanks for getting my boy i to gardening, my favorite passion!
Love, love, love seeing Tuck! Went through your phase 1 through phase 5 videos last night and took copious notes. You and three other garden channels have inspired me to take my gardening endeavors to a completely different level! Thank you for your excitement and enthusiasm. This is wonderful!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for the Boss, and James! Awesome harvest and thank you for encouraging and inspiring us to take back our food sovereignty. It is healthier and so much better tasting than anything in stores!
Yet another amazing video. From someone who doesn’t really like to eat fresh tomatoes, I love how you do so many varieties for look as well as taste. Also like to see them growing up tall. Tuck is a handsome boy and the star of the show. You are lucky to be his sidekick.
Love the Premise & Message today. This year I am growing & harvesting my biggest and most abundant garden yet! This is NOT just for lower class ppl, everyone should be, who can. It is so important, Especially in these current times. Harvest on Boss... and James 😉
I lost my garden supervisor this past Sunday. My cat frankie had been with me the whole time I was on this property. He saw my garden go from one single 5x5 bed to over 40 bed and a bunch of fruit trees, bushes and vines. He spent more time in the garden then I did so he got a proper burial in a nice little spot right next to the vegetable garden where he can watch over it forever.
The best
Sorry for your loss Thomas.
My sympathy and prayers.
I’m SO sorry & SO sad for you. Sending you prayers of peace and comfort. 😿
So sorry for your loss
We've commercially raised fruits and vegetables for about 57 years. TBH I was getting sort of burnt out and frustrated. Each time I watch your video's I remember the passion one can have for growing besides just for profit. Now I think I'm motivated for another 50 yrs.
Good luck with that bdog !
Glad to see, your community needs you!
Love the reason for the suit, it’s so true. It’s not just for the country farmer, and homesteader, it’s for everyone. Thank you for all of the great content. Our permaculture garden took hits here in the south, but we are looking forward to the fall.
As a MOTHER I am seeing the importance of feeding them well AND passing on the skill that my grandmother taught me.
I just planted carrots Friday by covering them with wood. Dude!!! They come up today!!! It really works. Thank you
Let's Gooo! Yes it does my friend, that's why I share it.
The best thing about your videos is your enthusiasm. It shows and flows through to your viewers.
Our suburban growing space is tiny compared to yours, around 40sq ft plus some pots, but we still can gather fresh food from the garden year-round.
Keep inspiring us to grow. We have very young nieces and a nephew who we are able to show that food doesn't have to come from a supermarket.
Next-gen growers are under training for sure.
Doesn’t get better than that James. The wonder of growing and eating our own food is beyond measure. Thanks for your contagious enthusiasm.
Really good tips! I’m 29, and though I’m still young I’m at the age where it’s very important to be self-sufficient. Gardening has really helped me with that, and I wish more people my age were doing it! I literally was in my garden when this video popped up. The suit looks sharp too. 👍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️s for Tuck.
I’m also 29 💪🏽 on the same mission! :)
@@JesusLovingHomesteader that’s awesome! I love your user name by the way. I am also Jesus loving.
@@hillaryburdick9313 Thank you so much! God is good
@@JesusLovingHomesteader amen to that!
'93 kids unite! Started late but growing food is a way of life now
Also about the critters, yes I can confirm that keeping water out where the birds can get it will help cut down on the tomato pecking. I have a small and large bird bath in my garden and I try to make sure I keep water in it everyday in this heat.
This is a great tip thank you! We were thinking about a bird bath just for enjoyment, but the practical use for it is very cool
Great video James and Tuck I really appreciate your wisdom, since thanks to you and a few other gardening channels I was inspired to grow my own food and it was the best thing that has happened to me because gardening and videos like this helped me to have peace in a very tough depression I had and I truely appreciate what you are doing and I'm 17 btw. Thank you
Let's Gooo Oliver!!! You are the gardener of the future my friend, thanks for starting young. Me and Tuck are on your side! 😁🐕❤️
🎉 My daughters are teen gardeners too! I am so proud of teen gardeners. They tend to be so adventerous with their seed choices. I am growing some cool mellons and Asian greens because of them.
I couldn’t agree with you more James, I started watching your videos in my senior year of high school - back when the pandemic first hit - and they offered so much great information on this incredible way of life in a time where I didn’t know what to do with so much spare time. I started planting apple trees and researching square foot gardening because of your videos and they changed the way I approached gardening, as well as the way I looked at the land that surrounded me. You’ve given me a fresh perspective on the bounties that nature has to offer. Thank you for providing people like myself with the resources, inspiration, and all around great content.
Ryan your comment brought me to have watery eyes( I'm not crying,your crying) so glad for your luck in finding this channel and finding a life long survival trait, that's also enjoyable,something positive from a time that was very questionable. Best of luck to you, and just gotta say, YES, we love Tuck!
As a young person your garden is truly inspiring. I started gardening when I was 13. It all started with one pepper plant, then a tomato, and then some beans. Today I have transformed my backyard into a thriving food forest. Even though I live in the suburbs I have learned that you can grow so much in a small space. Thanks for all you do! Love seeing Tuck
good for you, and love Tuck also... Loved it when James took a bite of that melon and was left speechless, looked at it, looked where it came from.... shakes head and raises hands in utter awe. Happy gardening, gr8 harvest to you !
That is awesome. What things do you enjoy growing the most right now?
@@wmluna381 I have really enjoyed growing squash and melons this year.
@@omarvaldivia8297 Man, that is one thing I am trying to get down. I may get 1 here and there on a plant. 😄 I also have issues growing lettuce, radishes, anf beets, which I keep hearing are easy. I would still consider myself a seasoned beginner at this point and I've been gardening on the regular indoors and outdoors probably for the last 5 years or so. It's a journey...
@@wmluna381 With radishes and beets, I usually put them in a sandy soil to grow. With lettuce I sow the seeds in trays with pro mix soil then I transplant them out.
The size of the cabbage, white scalloped squash, tomatoes as big as your hand! You’ve done an amazing job!
You’re a lunatic and I love it. Your energy and passion for growing food inspires me every time I watch your videos, often multiple times each because I learn every time I watch.
I grew my first melons this year. Ate my first one yesterday. It was spectacular.
Me as well, mine aren't ready yet but I am so looking forward to eating them. Many of my friends cannot wait for a melon or two!
Hi James, Love your enthusiasm in this video. One thing I have wanted to see is how you use all the food that is generated by this incredible food forest. Do you give some away? or perhaps preserve or store them? or maybe you make incredible recipes and consume most of the food you grow. Anyway, I am sure I speak for most viewers when I say, we would love to see some content in this topic or maybe something like making a recipe using only things in my food forest. That would be cool. Thanks and appreciate your and Tucks Hard work and motivation!
Absolutely loved this video. Thanks for showing people that growing food is not just for the poor. Everyone should be growing their own food! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️for Tuck!!!
I love watching fellow NJ gardeners! You are an inspiration and make me and my sidekick, Beeks, happy to watch you and Tuck, and listen to your experiences and advice. I wish we could have an in person meet to compare NJ gardening notes! I come from a family of Vineland farmers, and love to see the Garden State properly represented.
James, with food insecurity all around, you remind us all that we can be secure like you, with a little hard work, and having a friend like tuck helps too.
No, that may sound good but it's not true. My garden got ripped apart by an angry manager who said I can't grow a garden in my yard (even though I've been renting here for 5 and 1/2 years) because it "looks bad". I don't have the resources to move. So no, we can't ALL be secure when some of us on the bottom of the totem pole have to follow rules and regulations lest we become homeless
@@amyrenee1361 - Amy, I'm sorry you had to experience that, I have owned a 2 family by myself for 11 years, If I ever had a tenant I would be happy to let them have a garden in my yard. Something they have for gardeners like yourself a few towns over is a community garden, which is very inexpensive to rent a plot, and sometimes I just go there to get ideas from other gardens on how to improve my gardening techniques. The last time I was visiting there a person that was renting a plot gave me a bunch of fresh garlic bulbs... Where there is a will, there is a way!
I am proud to hear you are caring for your wildlife. Setting up solar water fountains (made from a simple 20” circular dish from store & $15 solar powered pump from eBay ) was the first thing I added in the garden for passerby animals. Also, Quench the bird’s thirst & they stay for a insect snack or two :)
hi james im new to your channel and to gardening but i wanted to say thank you for your enthusiasm and encouragement to grow our own food. i am slowly recovering from severe food scarcity and homelessness during the pandemic and having some agency over my growing my own food has really helped my healing process. thanks for helping me get my plants off the ground! :D
Gardening now is for everyone. Any age over age 3 (children well-supervised if very young). Patios, balconies, small and large pots, indoor tiny hydroponics under lights with available machine kits, small and larger raised bed outdoor gardens, in-ground rows and plots, and yes, interplanting poly cultural gardening in yards with space for fruit vines, bushes, and trees in addition to both annual and peri annual plants. Thank you for your inspirational videos. I have now had many seeds sprout for my late Summer and Fall vegetable gardens here in the NW AZ desert garden (less heat and monsoon rains here).
I literally have probably watched all your videos with my son we live in we live in PA the next state over and have a back deck container garden and we love it and you inspire us daily love your energy thank you!
I love your garden everything looks so beautiful and delicious. I started my own garden I really don't know what I'm doing but watching you and listening to your advice my garden is really growing my strawberries blueberry lime carrots peppers are doing beautiful. The first time actually saw fruit growing out of the plants. I started crying it was very emotional for me just want to say thank you you are the best🥰 I live in Jersey too I love the dog🥰🥰🥰 watching him eat the vegetables you give him totally adorable
Such great points! Growing your own food is so underrated. Thanks to your guidance, I’m sure more people will start. We were just talking about adding water containers to the garden, it’s just been so dry. Keep up the amazing inspiration! Thank you!
I’ve been harvesting tomatoes when they just start to turn color to save them from being half eaten. Taste is still awfully good. I use nylon bags on my elderberries. The birds get theirs and I get mine. The jays got all the cherries this year - next year I’m bagging them too! Beautiful as always James! I love your infectious joy!!
James!!! Tuck the boss and James the king back at it again!!! You inspire us all with your beautiful food forest. I learn so much from you! Thanks for changing my life. We love you guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
I have chickens that love when there’s food produced in the garden that humans can’t eat. Probably why their eggs are delicious, bright orange yokes and birds are very happy when I enter their run. Do you still have chickens? I’d love to see you bring them scraps. More people need to learn how to incorporate chickens into their garden spaces for fertilizer, pest control and fresh eggs.
My main man JP in the garden with a full two piece suit on! Now that’s what it’s all about! Bring Tuck along with you in his suit next time if it’s not to hot for the little soldier. Stay blessed and keep sowing & growing my friend! ❤️❤️❤️ your channel!
-Calvin
Thanks! I would have, but Tuck said it was hot out and that I should just be the one in the suit cause he's the boss. 👑🐕
3 piece suit.
Looking great in the suit...excellent reason indeed, the reality is that life is getting harder, we must do what we can to contribute to our own survival...gardening is wonderful and very rewarding...
You have inspired me to garden that is a sure thing. I live in an apartment in a big city. Last year, I had a few pots on my balcony. This year, I have a few more and I have rented a small space in a community garden. With the exception of a few tomatoes and peppers in Juin and July, I haven't bough any vegetables from the store. I also have frozen green beans and pickles for the whole year. I am also hoping to get enough tomatoes to make some salsa and tomato sauce for the year as well. Next year, I hope to start growing berries in my smart pots. Thank you for inspiring us :)
My garden is 40' x 16' and all my neighbors love the taste of all the organic veggiesI've been sharing with them. Thank you for all the info I've retained from your videos. Keep up the good work and God bless you sir. ❤
Interesting hypothesis on the critters seeking a water source. Something started gnawing on my low-hanging tomatoes in the last week or so and that coincides with the summer heat ramping up.
Edit to add: that's a gorgeous cabbage.
Thumbs up for the squirrel associates running quality control systems.
James, you’re extremely motivational. And I’ll say without a doubt you’re my most favorite UA-camr.
James is the Best!!!!! Number 1 in my book!
@@jstchmsr yes ma’am, I couldn’t agree more! 🙌🏼😎
Hi James. I purchased 100 Organza 8” x 12”, with draw string bags, for my tomatoes. These bags allow for good air circulation. As you mentioned the birds and varmints, are going crazy this year because of the Hot and dry weather. As soon as the tomatoes start turning pink, I surround clusters with a bag. Working excellent so far.
Our kid is in primary school and we teach them about the importance of growing food, even though sometimes they are not interested or bored of hearing me talk about it! lol
A lot of the time though, they do want to help out in the garden come planting or harvest time.
They are interested when we first set up the wormery as were their friends too, talking about the type of worms, what their eggs care called and why worms are important and not just because they eat our food scraps!
They also went to nature club after school and planted some runner beans to bring back home and made a bird feeder from a used plastic milk bottle.
It is never too young to start learning about gardening. There are so many things you can do, grow and regrow inexpensively.
No matter the the size of your living space, you can grow at least something edible. Even in a block of apartment flats, if one place grew something different and swapped it with another neighbour that in itself it doing something.
It's not about mass farming or waiting until you have retired to a house with a big garden that you should be thinking about starting to grow food.
I love ur energy! Look sharp in the suit but I was worried about how hot u were. Stay cool and don’t over heat urself. Great garden. It looks absolutely stunning!!
Amazing and inspirational harvest tour, James. Thank you for your time and passion.
I agree with you totally 💯 I have a tiny garden but I try to grow all my vegetables for my family. Love your video 👍
Hey Team Tuck! Best team video yet!! I weigh the pursuit of any endeavor in terms of the benefit to my future self and the health and wellbeing of my family (wife and fur kid). In other words I like learning about the best investment of my time. Learning and doing over time is a big part of the that and if it growing my own food did not have an intellectual side, I don't think I could stick it out for more than one season. No matter how big your growing space is, you have a lab to experiment in. As the great gardener Hannibal Lecter said in Silence of the Lambs..."Love your suit". Cheers!
Out of all the garden channels I follow, I like yours the best.
We got so many cukes after watching James' pruning cucumbers video. We also started some in pots for a fall/winter garden. Transplanting was successful and had one extra cuke plant w. blossoms to give away. Got our first cuke already from new plants. We are in Central Connecticut.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤♥️💞🐕🥕🥒 I love Tuck!
Inspiring. I'm no longer young, but I love trying to grow food. My biggest joy is when something sprouts from my compost and food waste. I have more success with that than with purchased plants.
Awesome, Tuck needs a Bow tie . ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Great message! Everyone should be growing something. The food is just part of the reward.
Yes more tuck please 🤍! I grew white currant tomatoes too this year, they are soooo sweet & tasty I eat them like candy.
Wow, Mr. P, when I saw this video and listened to the intro, it dawned on me why I love watching your videos so much-YOU ARE JUST LIKE JOEL! You are the Jersey Joel! He is a hero to me too. I rewind and watch each of your videos over and over because, just like Joel, you say a whole lot in between doing your thing, and I don’t want to miss a thing. You are wise beyond your years. Can’t wait to see what the harvest of all of your videos will be. Hugs and high fives from Northern California
I love your passion, keep up the good work James & tuck
I love your channel. Love your excitement. Love seeing your love of homegrown food. Love Tuck. Your channel is a joy, and in turn, gives all of us viewers joy. Your enthusiasm is contagious! Best wishes!
Hey James, I grew some flavor grenade Pluots in NJ, and I highly recommend to interspecific plums!!!
You’ve created a magnificent backyard food forest! Tuck is lucky to have you hanging out with him. My Honey loves hanging out in the garden, but doesn’t eat anything I grow. She’s more into it for ‘protecting’ me from whatever visits the garden.
Thought you were wearing a suite to celebrate your 1-million+ Subscribers! Congratulations, you deserve it!
Haha that would have been a better idea 😂
So to all those who think getting in touch with the land is a poor man's way of life....we eat better than those ignorants ever will! Growing your own food is the most honest work anyone can do!
My son-in-law, in his 40’s, has begun gardening this year for the first time, and he is ON FIRE! So excited about growing food! It’s awesome to see! Another son-in-law has a great helper in his little 6-year-old son - my youngest grandchild - and they have a beautiful garden full of good food.
That's fantastic. Gives me hope for the world when I hear stories like that.
loved seeing Boss.
What you have grown is absolutely amazing! Hardly any damage from pests. I have a small garden and plant in containers and window boxes. Perfect hiding places for snails. My Chinese cabbage leaves get reduced to stalks overnight. The drumhead cabbage were attacked by cabbage worms. Caterpillars have already started to make their appearance. Can we please have a video on how to get rid of different pests organically. I have just sown over 20 different types of vegetable seeds and would love to harvest as much as possible.
Tucker is sooo cute😍
The water for the critters is important in many ways, particularly in more rural places. Growing up on a horse ranch, we would place shallow pans of water in perimeter locations well away from the animals and well traveled areas for the rattlesnakes. The would come deep into the property after water in the hot summer months in southern California. The pans went a long way to keep them away from the horses, dogs and the family. I wonder, does Tuck have a special bark when certain critters come into your space?
I know you want to ripen your tomatoes on the vine but you really don't need to do that.. you can even pick them when they go from the light green/white to just a tiny bit pink and they will fully ripen with all the flavor within about a week on your kitchen table or someplace out of the sun.. (no deep dark green near the stem and a slight tint of pink at the top and it will ripen off the vine) I am about 100 miles from you about the same climate and situation but you have more shade... we were going to get hit by a hurricane a couple years back and I remembered someone taught me that.. if its just a tiny bit pink you can even pick it.. so I went out and harvested about 150 tomatoes... and sat them on my kitchen table on newspaper and I would sort them.. green to red every day.. and every one of them was good to eat... If you find you are having situations and you have healthy fruit that is not 100% ripe but its a great specimen then pick it.. don't wait.. test it before you need to do it for real and then you won't doubt it if you need to ... you're crazy in that suit heh its been painfully hot and humid the past week or so .. best wishes.
I've been picking tomatoes when they are just blushing, and they ripen just fine on the counter and taste great too. I've heard that the plant will produce more if you pick earlier. However, I was recently reading that tomatoes that ripen on the vine have more nutrients, such as lycopene, than those that ripen off the vine. Better nutrition is one reason I garden. So, for now, I'll pick at various stages and see how it goes. If I find that the critters & pests ruin the ripe tomatoes, it's back to picking all when they blush.
I think he leaves them on the vine for the videos.
You guys are adorable. My husband and I are 50 so not young gardeners but enjoying it. Today I picked strawberries tomatoes green beans bell peppers squash and cucumbers from our garden. Yours is incredible!
First! Got my micro-greens goin, squash growing from GA, USA. Leggo!
Let's Gooo Zaque!!
Your enthusiasm is contagious and motivating. I especially appreciate your comments on encouraging young people to grow food. Thanks
I always LIKED your videos, NOW I LOVE THEM! This was great info.
❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️ for Tuck!
Let's Gooo!!
Let’s gooo!!! 31, one of the deepest things I’ve heard by Jim Rohn, “if you are 30, you have 30 more springs left to plant the seed.”
I took your advice on focusing on perennials first, this year got some black berry bushes, fig trees, and straw berries planted. Also have some peach seeds germinating from farmers market peaches. Very excited
Hey James
Love your channel and your energy. But as I see you pick this and that I wonder if you have the same frustrations as I do here in Philly. I'm inundated with squirrels and groundhogs that devour my tomatoes, beans and melons just as they are ripening. Wondering if you could speak to your own battles with critters?
When I lived in Philly the squirrels where almost impossible to stop eating tomatoes. I gave up and just grew peppers.
It has been really bad this year. I am going to put out some more water bowls for them and I am going to trap and release them somewhere else I think.
Critter netting and deer corn has worked for me. Also, if you have a guy in the home have him pee around your beds every now and then. Just make sure he can aim
They've been real bad for me down in Florida this year. Started going after green tomatoes even after they'd hit all the ripening ones. I've been trapping them and releasing them in some woods across from my neighborhood and it has helped tremendously!
I live in a regular terraced house so I don't have that much space for growing, however I pick my tomatoes when they start to turn colour only the tiniest bit. They will ripen inside the house and are completely safe from critters!
Lowkey speechless seeing James in a suit
New Merch? Haha
You are the Best I have been following you for years I don’t comment that much but I am here Thank you for doing what you do and sharing your Skills and Knowledge with the World!
Thanks for the love and consistent support Lisa, and thanks for showing up in the comments today 😁
I feel like you were holding cash in your hands, the vegetables are valuable!
Even better, you can't buy veggies this good and this natural with money. The only way to get stuff this good and this local is to grow it yourself
Everyone loves a sharp dressed ....... gardner. Hearts for Tuck. ❤❤❤❤❤
I think we all know the real reason James is wearing a suit. He's picking up the ladies! 😀
It might be his wedding suit.😁
Setup a fountain with a small pump it will keep the mosquitos out of the water and will add a nice feature to the garden!
Who is your cameraman?
Wife
One of the many mysteries of the channel, its modeled after an onion...
I always wonder that too - I wouldn't fancy trying to keep up with James and Tuck!😅 And good work BTW 👍😉
Your passion is infectious. Your garden is an inspiration. And Tuck is simply a delight. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Love the take on today's harvest
Thanks! I felt like speaking my mind a bit today
Yea I have two birdbaths and I've never had a problem with birds or squirrels messing with my fruit/veggies.
Nah no suit , not in this heat. Are you sure you weren't just coming back from a funeral or Sunday church or some job interview ?
Haha, it was only one of the hottest days of the year. Nah I got this suit a few years ago when I went to a friends wedding and it has just sat there since. So I got inspired by my man Joel Salatin and the next thing I new I was sweating half to death in a suit picking veggies. 🤷♂️
Gardening is a revolution. Which is why they don't want us to do it. Whoever controls the food controls the people. Love your channel, been watching since the beginning and the evolution of your garden.
King Tuck! I have to say the tiny boss is the first pup I've ever seen chow down on veggies❣️❣️❣️
In my gardening journey I've had to learn a lot of things to be successful at even growing the "easiest" of plants.
You continue to inspire us ❤️ While we dream of having a bit of land we have a deck 3 floors up and grow blueberries, peas, shallots, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, arugula , kale and strawberries 🎈❤️🎈 Go Tuck!!!
So jealous of your tomato collection! Im from the north of Scotland where it can be pretty touch and go successfully growing tomatoes outdoors. Love that you've built an incredible little food forest!
7:37-7:48 the reward for your hard work. Thank you for the new perspective James
FYI I dehydrate my tiny tomatoes until they are crisp. They are great snacks and it makes them a little sweeter. You have a beautiful garden.
Nothing like vine ripe cantelope! It’s a different melon from store bought… My grandma alway tapped with her toe, if it came off the vine it was ready.
James you are a trooper, you do everything to show people that they CAN grow a garden. Your food is so amazing and the critters know they can get tastey, organic, mouth watering food there. Looks like next year you should grow a critter garden along side yours.👍👍👍👨🌾🐶💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕💜🤍💙💚💛🧡❤️💕👨🌾🐶👍👍👍
I'm a single mum in order to pay bills and mortgage I grow food to feed my family. The flood in Australia wiped it out a few months ago but were getting ready to start again. I'm doing some in pots to begin with incase it floods again
I’m 19 and started my own garden at 18 , I’ve been doing it for a year now and I’ve done a lot and learned a lot In just 1 year. I went from growing strawberries, raspberry’s and some cucumbers to growing pumpkins , squash , corn , beans , all sorts of veggies , jute , sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers , kiwis , garlic , onion, weed(: , watermelons , grain plants like Job’s tears , Amaranth , millet , also growing mulberry’s , apples now , paw paws , Jublee , pineapple guava … I’m growing many plants😂😂 but I just wanna say thank you for being a good source for enough and also all the valuable advice you give every video. I couldn’t have been so successful this year without you man! So thank you a lot for that! I plan on making my life’s work around plants! Once again , thank you man🙏🏻
Your good. I garden daily. I am in SW and could never wear a suit while gardening, even on my deck. I melt after 5 mins of just inspecting my potted fruit and vegetable plants and have to take multiple breaks. I love your content and love Tuck too. ❤
Looking good, James! Thank you for this message, it’s beautiful! I feel so much more grounded with life when I’m gardening!
Looking spiffy in that suit, James!
I want to thank you for your videos. I've been following along for a couple years now, and this season my 4 year old son has been particularly interested in your videos. Everyday we watch a garden harvest together!😁☺️ Thanks for getting my boy i to gardening, my favorite passion!
I will NEVER grow tired of your enthusiasm nor seeing all your beautiful food and Tuck's beauty too ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️
Looking pretty dapper in your suit and the message you brought for us today. I believe anyone that can harvest there own food are truly blessed.
Love, love, love seeing Tuck! Went through your phase 1 through phase 5 videos last night and took copious notes. You and three other garden channels have inspired me to take my gardening endeavors to a completely different level! Thank you for your excitement and enthusiasm. This is wonderful!
Thanks for the encouragement James! You and Tuck are great! I'm a newbie trying to figure out how to plant and grow a container garden due to space.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for the Boss, and James! Awesome harvest and thank you for encouraging and inspiring us to take back our food sovereignty. It is healthier and so much better tasting than anything in stores!
Love the messaging here. I juat planted 10 fruit trees, 3 grapes, two raspberries, and three blueberries at my 0.24 acre home. So exicted.
Yet another amazing video. From someone who doesn’t really like to eat fresh tomatoes, I love how you do so many varieties for look as well as taste. Also like to see them growing up tall.
Tuck is a handsome boy and the star of the show. You are lucky to be his sidekick.
Love the Premise & Message today. This year I am growing & harvesting my biggest and most abundant garden yet! This is NOT just for lower class ppl, everyone should be, who can. It is so important, Especially in these current times.
Harvest on Boss... and James 😉