Thanks, getting the spelling on some of the unusual names really helps. I was trying to get the name of the pepper variety and you had it. Thanks again
Try cutting back your peppers to two divided stems & Their two divided stems. A total of Four cut branches remaining. You will have no leaves on them. Transfer to a Pot & store in the Green House over the Winter. You do not have to keep growing Peppers from Seed. The Plant can be used every year.
Hello Kevin and Sarah, Well , the garden is winding down. The gardening is done mostly by my wife Xiaoling. And what a garden she has had. All dug up and tilled by hand with only a shovel ! She grew some butternut squash with great results. I was curious so I weighed two butternut squash together. 19 pounds for the two of them. Ling is not up for canning yet so our excess goes to the chickens. And we all eat well . lol Life is interesting with a Chinese wife. You see , the Chinese have only one word for both squash and pumpkin. So we have been eating quite a lot of pumpkin this past summer. Even though we did not plant any pumpkins. lol Some really great tasting acorn squash. I wonder why the acorn squash from the store don't taste like that ? They look pretty much the same but they sure don't taste the same. And Ling's tomatoes were to die for. Xiaoling grew some hybrids which were very pretty and attractive. And they tasted pretty good being vine ripened. However , the heirloom tomatoes were the stars of the garden. All mis-shapened , lumpy and frankly, they were kind of ugly. lol And huge ! Mostly , one tomato would fill two hands together. One heirloom tomato was about equal to three hybrids. Again I was curious so I weighed one. 3.2 pounds for one heirloom tomato ! And then I ate it. Now that is what tomatoes are all about !! No more hybrids next year. They are prettier and look nice. But the taste is where it's at. For supper last night , Ling butchered one of our natural grass fed chickens , and we had roast chicken with fried green tomatoes. City life ? Forget it. This is the way to live and enjoy life .
Well guys the wife and me sure enjoy your channel, we are in Western Australia , yep we are heading into mid spring , warming up, you got lots of viewer here in Australia , just wanna say thank you for your practical approach , got ourselves an All American Canner , loving it , thanks for the inspiration :) cheers
If you are going to stagger plant sweetcorn next year, I would suggest planting in blocks rather than rows, i.e. 8 half rows, not 4 long rows, I find that pollination rates are far better in blocks.
Yes please, when I see Sarah lifting and carrying those heavy pots I cringe inside. Work smarter not harder. I did the same while working alongside my husband for 38 years, now my back is shot and I can’t work alongside him anymore. Please take care 🤗❤️🙏🏻
When Mom and Dad finally move in, Have them walk around so they can find they're 'Favorite Place' and put a double swing at that Special Place for them....I love you guys
I’m heading home on Monday after doing two weeks alone in a quarantine government facility (we are not allowed to quarantine in our own home, after returning from travel abroad.) Your videos have been so enjoyable and helped me keep my sanity! Love to you guys!
Thank you for your recommendations. We are enjoying your channel & learning a lot. Would you please tell the roasting pepper that you recommended? We couldn’t quite understand it to spell it out & look it up.
One may find You Tube videos as educational and pleasant BUT one will find NONE BETTER than yours. You are both terrific and LTH is among the first YT channels I check daily. Very Nice Job...Thank you for sharing.
Dearest Sarah! Are you feeling puny right now? This the end of the season! You may need some deep rest over the air ter. You are so very much loved. Please take some of your herbs, rest, take good care of yourself.
I hope you realize what a pleasure it is to be able to tune into your channel and be able to calm down and enjoy stressfree, positive videos during these trying times. Much enjoyed and appreciated. Love you all.
Thank you. I haven't seen frost in 24 yrs living in Central Florida. It is hard to have a summer garden but being able to grow tomatoes almost year round you just can't beat it.
I picked a half bushel of peppers yesterday before the frost last night. Yes, a half bushel is a peck of peppers. Thanks for the video. God Bless, stay safe.
I like to use dried okra pods for floral decorations. During the holidays I spray paint them gold or silver, sprinkle with glitter, then put in arrangements or put them on our Christmas tree!
As much as I love Spring for it's vibrant colors and bursts of life nothing compares to that first really frosty day in the fall where everything has that hush to it, except for the crows, you can see your breath on the air and you stand in the sun soaking up some warmth while you look out at all the frost. it's truly magical.
You have a beautiful farm and are so blessed with such wonderful partnership in your marriage. God Bless you for sharing so much of your happy farm life and experience. I loved the way you warmed up to Rose the new Dairy cow. That was really sweet. Nothing more beautiful than a cow or calf. Rest this Winter and God Bless you both and farm. You deserve some rest!
I am 70 years old...the best watermelon I ever had was a variety called Congo. It won awards in 1950 as the sweetest and juiciest. My Uncle grew them to sell and always sold out. It canbe hard to find. GoodLuck for your lifestyle and God Bless!
We planted only ONE watermelon this year in our backyard garden. It’s a round one, red inside, nice and sweet. Once some other stuff was winding down, the watermelon plant just took off, took over the garden and part of the grass! and has given us one or two per week since late August. So fun.
Another Aussie here who has enjoyed following your farming journey. It’s been a lot of fun. The kids and I just harvested our sweet potatoes this morning 😀
I just learned this year that you can overwinter pepper plants indoors. Just remove all the leaves and cut them down, then put them in pots and bring them in. Mine are already happily growing new leaves.
Here in Nebraska SE we had great success with the celebrity and sworn that we will grow it again next year. My husband's father always grew this variety and finally convinced me it's the only tomato we will grow next year.
I just want to say how impressed I am at how neat and organized your homestead is. I know it’s a lot of work . But you do a great job and work hard and it shows.
Had a Louisiana Green Velvet okra that reached up over 16' one year. Had to tie a cord up 3/4 of the way and pull the top of the plant downward to reach the ones growing up high.
We grew the SANGRIA WATERMELON this year. Very sweet and I didn't find it to have too many seeds. We enjoyed this watermelon so much, it will be planted again next year.
Remember you have a farm now. You now have all the room you need to grow corn, watermelon, and anything that takes up a lot of space. Also ,apples,peaches, pears, plums, cherry, maybe grapes, blueberries, thornless blackberries, the list goes on and on. I hope you two have the best crop ever. I love you guys.
Have you ever tried the heirloom Cherokee purple tomato ? Wonderful ! I so loved following your gardens and animals this summer. Be blessed and favored ❤️🙏🏽
After I had my first garden with some success. I when to visit my grandparents garden. I was absolutely astonished at how ruthless they were at getting rid of poorly producing plants and anything diseased weak. I expressed my concern and he told me when they had to depend on their garden to eat you cannot hem and haw about what is doing good or you will go hungry. He jerked out a whole hill of potatoes 6 feet across because they were barely up when he others were blooming. Thanks for this. I never thought of it in terms of real survival.
Sarah it's really good to see you are still vibrant and full of life like you were. Summer growing has done well for y'all. Maybe your winter planting will be even better. Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend.
The northeast had a dry season. We had a good year after all, in my 2 small garden plots. I use raised beds large plastic pots, and black cloth growing bags. Square foot gardening works well. We buy all our plants from a nursery nearby, because the slugs get the grown planted seed shoots A lot of hand watering each day. We grew zucchini, Butternut squash, tomatoes, Russet potatoes (Not much of a yield this year) (consumed them in a month) and Gourd pumpkins( these I started in side on window sill and was surprised to get them to grow). My success this year was I did not get a lot of bugs. Only a squirrel- Liked the tomato's, chipmunks and birds got all of the blue berries and strawberries. They pecked on the zucchini, some. Got a lot in the freezer, after all. Expanding a little more next year.
We had our first frost last night in NE Mississippi. I picked the last of the peppers, my Lima beans (butter beans) are still loaded with blooms. I hate to loose them. I always plant celebrity tomatoes but this year was not a good year for them. They were misshaped and didn’t get very big. Never had this problem before 🤷🏻♀️. I did plant the Jet star and Jet Setter was impressed with both of them. Kevin and Sarah, thank you both so much for keeping us posted on what worked as well as what didn’t. I planted Star of David Okra this year. Oh my goodness, the biggest plants I have ever seen. They grew to at least 12-14 feet high and the stalks were 5-6 “ in diameter. I saved seed, they were delicious. My biggest problem with them was by the time the got 4-5 inches long they were too hard. Blessings y’all 🙏🏻🥰🍂🍁
The Black Diamond water melon is one of the most flavor melons we have here. There are seeds but the flavor is worth it. And the seeds are good for the next years crop.
Roadside stands sell "watermelons" during the season unless they are Black Diamonds and then they advertise them as such and they are expensive. .Black Diamonds warrant a premium during watermelon season in my area because of its taste so would give it a try.
Black Diamond is the one and only watermelon, that my Grandfather grew. My Grandfather new a lot about varieties that do well in sandy soil, this one is a winner!
@@dianapollex3266 Thanks! My Grandfather has been gone since 1979, but I can still hear him saying after he would cut one of the Black Diamonds open, "Okay, who wants a piece of the heart of the melon." Great memories!
Y’all’s garden is always so impressive. You hit it on the head about different varieties doing well in different areas. We certainly had some winners and losers this year as well. We did the marketmore because of y’all and they produced fantastic. You had an awesome harvest that will bless your family all year. Y’all take care and thanks for all the great information.
Could you use juice of the least favorite somehow? The birds would probably love all those seeds, and pickle the rind. Sounds like Father blessed your garden efforts. Praise Him!
Marketmore cucumber did fabulously for me too. Whoever put the seed out did a fabulous, fabulous job! Maybe somebody did the smart move of growing a field of seed, letting things go to seed of what they could not sell. Let your fields go to seed to sell seed for sprouting.
We just love your channel. We have learned so much for you both. Our winners were Jimmy Nardello peppers, Cantelope, yellow and orange peppers and beets! Our losers were pumpkins, onions and summer squash!
Thanks for great reminder video - our first frost is on the way and I need to get outside and grab the remaining peppers and herbs! God's continued blessings.
I grew over 30 varieties of tomatoes this year. The worse ones were sub artic, and micro tom tomato. Best tomato was 4th of july and orange hat and siletz. I live on the southern oregon coast so we dont get warm. But I did have the best tomato harvest I have ever gotten. In fact I'm still getting ripening tomatoes in the middle of October. Also loved the KAJARI melons. They are our favorite melon ever! We'll grow alot more next year. Also liked the golden midget watermelons. Loved the sweet dumpling winter squash. And the buttercup winter squash. Our garden did fantastic this year. And we are still harvesting lots. Got potatoes growing 3 ft right now for end of November harvest. Already got 162 pounds of potatoes out of 27 bins. Replanted 18 for fall harvest. Tried growing okra. Will have to grow it next year in the greenhouse. Not warm enough outside here for it. Got so many table queen acorn squash off of 2 sets of 3 plants. In fact more are flowering and setting fruit right now. I'm getting tired of the garden about now. And still have quite a bit of canning left to do.
Glad Jetstar works so well for you. 2 years in a row in SE Coastal VA, they were horrible. Tiny, very small despite fertilization, early to blight. Same with Jetsetter. We have HUGE SUCCESS WITH ROMAS. 50 lbs! For slicers, Cherokee Purple is amazing. Huge, sweet, over 1 pounders that went on forever. Heirloom for seed saving. Thanks so much for Adjvarski! Ours are still bearing fruit and we have enjoyed SO MANY oven roasted w avocado oil, salt and garlic powder! I didnt think anything could beat Jimmy Nardello, but they do! A keeper! I will be trying to overwinter a few this year. Emerald giant and California wonder didnt do well, but anaheim chilis are amazing too. Dont forget to amend your soil well, broadfork and you will.get huge success with sweet potatoes next year. Remember they are a dual use plant as well, the greens are amazingly sweet in stir fry and salads. I freeze greens of all kinds to use for winter cooking each year- spinach, chard, broccoli, sweet potato and I also freeze garlic scapes. Despite BT and neem, for a few years cukes (marketmore, straight eight, lemon) have failed for us. Sigh. I even injected the stems like my squash and they didnt make it. I was able however, to grow my first squash in 3 years w BT injections and Danny and Wanda's Cherokee Tan Pumpkins are just turning yellow now. Hope they ripen before the first frost. We are getting down into the mid 40s at night now. Last frost mid Nov. Enjoy and bless your family.
It has been a pleasure being subscribed to you since February. So much has happened and I have learned a lot. Thanks for it all . It's been quite a year
I would like to thank you very much for sharing your secret to a weedless garden, the polyethylene fabric weed barrier. I put it on my big bed and pulled only about three minutes worth of weeds the entire season and that was just on the outside edge that was growing around the marigolds that I used as a border. In contrast, last year I spent probably 6-8 hours weeding that bed on each of two separate occasions and it still grew over by August and was an absolute jungle with only the tomatoes growing above the weed level. Your suggestion, combined with building two 4’x8’x30” inch tall raised beds, made gardening a pleasure rather than a nightmarish chore. Unfortunately, by the time I finally got around to picking out a design for the raised beds, buying the materials and building them, plus weeding out the big garden before applying the weed barrier, it was mid June before I planted and my only real successes were lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and cilantro. Spinach did not grow at all, peppers produced only a couple tiny fruits, I got two heads of broccoli from six plants, +2 heads of cauliflower from six plants, had nice carrot and beet greens, but no harvestable roots, and unlike in past years, my basil didn’t really grow either. Ditto with two types of sugar snap peas. I got two nice 14 inch pumpkins, but built my 8 foot tall trellis for them too late in the season and made some other mistakes that I won’t repeat. Next year I think I’m going to need to really plan a lot better for the amount of sun my three raised beds get. And start a lot of seeds indoors in March so that I can plant in early May.
Our favorite tomato of the season was yellow oxheart. It didn't put on fruit until late, but when it did we got a ton of huge tomatoes from the one plant we planted. They were delicious too! I will grow them every year from now on.
Black Diamond is a second here. My aunt and uncle grew these in western Kansas. I've seen my 5"4 95 pound mother put away a gallon of this in a single setting. The flesh is a deep pink almost red. You won't be disappointed with these. Also get a book on companion planting. I put marigolds next to my tomatoes and never have an issue with pests or bugs.
Putting fresh corn up is so easy pull shulks and corn silks back just enough to cut the end off where the worm is, pull the shulks and silks back up put a rubber band around the top. Throw in a zipp lock bag and freeze. When you cook them they are as fresh as the day you picked them.
Always plant MORE veggies than you can use, your stock can eat them during the winter. My grandma always grew more pumpkins than we could use so we fed them to the pigs and cows over winter time. I am sure you can do the same with other veggies.
For those who dont know about seed saving hybrid varieties: you CAN save the seeds from those fruits, but the plant from said seed will most likely differ slightly from the hybrid parent. Basically the fruits will vary from those the year before so if you just want tomatoes just save any from your existing plants cuz the plants you have will have stronger genetics for your region than new seeds coming in, but if you want a pure variety then thats when you buy seeds lol
Had our first frost over night also. Spent my afternoon, evening picking peppers, tomatoes & squash. So sad to see my garden go. Brought all my herbs in the garage to prep to come indoors for the winter. Because of all your advice my garden harvest was absolutely amazing! Now time to plant my garlic today!!! Oh btw same thing happened to my yellow peppers! Right when turning yellow they also got little soft spots. I thought I was doing something wrong.
Ultimately people need to try several varieties. Then find what works best for you in your area. Plants that do well for someone in their area. May not do as well for someone else in a different area. God bless
Travis over at Hoss Tools gave a really favourable review of the baby doll watermelon. It is a yellow fleshed one but the flavour is supposed to be fantastic.
Peaches and Cream Corn is one of my favorite varieties. My absolute favorite variety of watermelon and one that grows well in KY is the Sugar Baby variety. They are a small watermelon that weighs about 12 to 14 lbs. They have fewer seeds and very sweet flesh.
If you want to have some Kernal corn . Using a couple bunt pans to very easily remove the corn from the husk !!! So simple , place the end of the husk over the hole in bunt pan ( need pans with different size holes in their tops )push , have a piece of plywood with a hole under pan across a container to catch cob !! Corn stays in pan , husk is gone !!
I enjoyed following you guys through the summer. This year was my first time really planting all types of veggies. For a first timer I think I did well. The saddest part was last week when I had to take down all of my trellises and put all of my containers away. Now when I go into the backyard it looks empty. Can't wait until spring to try it again. I'll check on you guys and see what happens with your winter harvest. Stay well.
Well firstly I would not even get out of bed if we had temperatures like that here in Brisbane Australia (sorry I am a summer girl)- & secondly the WINNERS are all of us who get to watch you guys !!!!! Loved hearing the good & the bad growing as I have just picked the most amazing Capsicum (pepper I guess) that I have ever grown- it is a Californian Wonder ( my first time growing as I fail with capsicums) IT IS AMAZING & I am so excited. Trying some watermelons this year for the first time so at this stage can't recommend any- I have a small backyard (very tidy) vege garden so bit limited guys. Cheers Denise- Australia
Celebrity, Early Girl, and Big Boy do great in northern Michigan! Jet Star do fantastic also and Better Boy. At least on our homestead. Sugar Baby watermelons do great here too. We also grow Peaches & Cream corn! It does fantastic here.
We had our first frost about ten days ago, so about a week before you. We trialed a bunch of tomato varieties this year. Our German Johnson tomatoes produced beautifully. Big Orange and Pink Brandywine also made the cut. It's been very cold here, the shoulder seasons too short and too cold to keep tomatoes (and peppers) outside, we grow them exclusively in the hoop house. It's time to cut them down and get the hoop house ready for the flock that overwinters in there (and works the soil for us!). Beautiful video, best wishes from Indiana.
The 2 varieties of peppers that I grew in NJ and my daughter grew in NY are capsicum annuum-hybrid sweet orange pepper, envelope says GLOW f1 from Johnny andCarmen sweet, a red pepper from Fedco seeds. Both were prolific, healthy and delicious
My rock stars were my spaghetti squash...3 plants gave me about 12 to 15 squash. My tomatoes did ok. My Anne raspberry which were planted on June as bare roots, gave me fruit this fall and boy are they yummy for a pale gold raspberry. They are huge and so pretty and tasty. My peppers did awesome as well.
My best tomatoes ever (loaded, long producing, climb over and out of the cages) are Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine:)!!! Tons. Feed heavy with barn manure and rotted mulch. They are unbelievable- I adore. Oh, and I believe it may make a difference where the seed come from. I buy those from Bakers creek.
Goodmorning. In Alberta is winter now. Minus 12°C 15cm snow on the ground. So its real winter here. Love to see your video. Please say hi to the kids too. Big hug 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I couldn't tell you how many seeds they might have, but our 2 favorites for growing in SW MO are Charleston Gray & our very favorite, Black Diamond. My husband's family used to truck garden these two, and always had great success. The black diamond is my favorite to eat, very rich pink/red meat and not too thick skin.
This year's winners: Jetstar tomato, Canada crookneck squash, marketmore cucumber, ajvarsky pepper, peaches and cream sweet corn.
Thanks, getting the spelling on some of the unusual names really helps. I was trying to get the name of the pepper variety and you had it. Thanks again
Thank you i needed this cheat sheet!!😉
Thanks for the list. I tried my best on the sweet red pepper but missed several vowels!
I too was trying all kinds of spellings for the pepper and couldn't get it right. Thanks so much!
"ajvarsky" easy for you to say! I can't half hear and the pepper had me stumped. I figured it was the accent! Thank you.
Try cutting back your peppers to two divided stems & Their two divided stems. A total of Four cut branches remaining. You will have no leaves on them. Transfer to a Pot & store in the Green House over the Winter. You do not have to keep growing Peppers from Seed. The Plant can be used every year.
Mind blowing! 🤯 Peppers take so long to grow from seed!
Hello Kevin and Sarah,
Well , the garden is winding down. The gardening is done mostly by my wife Xiaoling. And what a garden she has had. All dug up and tilled by hand with only a shovel ! She grew some butternut squash with great results. I was curious so I weighed two butternut squash together. 19 pounds for the two of them. Ling is not up for canning yet so our excess goes to the chickens. And we all eat well . lol
Life is interesting with a Chinese wife. You see , the Chinese have only one word for both squash and pumpkin. So we have been eating quite a lot of pumpkin this past summer. Even though we did not plant any pumpkins. lol Some really great tasting acorn squash. I wonder why the acorn squash from the store don't taste like that ? They look pretty much the same but they sure don't taste the same.
And Ling's tomatoes were to die for. Xiaoling grew some hybrids which were very pretty and attractive. And they tasted pretty good being vine ripened. However , the heirloom tomatoes were the stars of the garden. All mis-shapened , lumpy and frankly, they were kind of ugly. lol And huge ! Mostly , one tomato would fill two hands together. One heirloom tomato was about equal to three hybrids. Again I was curious so I weighed one. 3.2 pounds for one heirloom tomato ! And then I ate it. Now that is what tomatoes are all about !! No more hybrids next year. They are prettier and look nice. But the taste is where it's at.
For supper last night , Ling butchered one of our natural grass fed chickens , and we had roast chicken with fried green tomatoes. City life ? Forget it. This is the way to live and enjoy life .
Well guys the wife and me sure enjoy your channel, we are in Western Australia , yep we are heading into mid spring , warming up, you got lots of viewer here in Australia , just wanna say thank you for your practical approach , got ourselves an All American Canner , loving it , thanks for the inspiration :) cheers
We will be praying that you have a bountiful garden season this year as well!
Guys we are off to a good start just harvested 16kgs of Mozart Potatoes from 1 small bag of seed potatoes , gave the new canner a test run on them :)
My new favorite band is from Perth, The Faim. They toured the US and saw them here in Minnesota. How are you all doing after the fires?
Hi Rick. We are in Perth! Doing my first veggie garden this year. Would you please share what type of veggies that do well in this area? Thanks!
Hi Tania atm were have corn , tomatoes, beans , cucumbers, melons Capsicums ( peppers ) zucchini all planted , yes our summer type veggies , cheers
If you are going to stagger plant sweetcorn next year, I would suggest planting in blocks rather than rows, i.e. 8 half rows, not 4 long rows, I find that pollination rates are far better in blocks.
You all need to get you a two wheel hand truck (dolly) to move those buckets with. It works really good and saves your back.
Yes please, when I see Sarah lifting and carrying those heavy pots I cringe inside. Work smarter not harder.
I did the same while working alongside my husband for 38 years, now my back is shot and I can’t work alongside him anymore. Please take care 🤗❤️🙏🏻
I’m the only gardener in my family and I would be lost without my little cart. I reckon I’d have a hernia by now, without it!
That was my thought as well when I saw them carrying those buckets.
I was going to say the same thing
@Himself Lee Not Sarah! She’s recently recovered from surgery! She still should stay safe, of course!
Hoping now that the growing season has slowed down, you can show more recipes with what you preserved!
When Mom and Dad finally move in, Have them walk around so they can find they're 'Favorite Place' and put a double swing at that Special Place for them....I love you guys
Black Diamond watermelon is very good. It does have seeds but not overloaded. 🍉
My papa grew black diamond and Charleston grey. "Only eat the goodie(heart) out of that melon, I'll go get you another". Black diamond-the best.
I was going to suggest it too. Great variety! Does well in my zone 7 in SC
Seeded watermelons taste a lot better tgan seedless. Kids like to spit the seeds.
Hey Kevin, wish you would show a picture of the fruit when you talk about them. Would be great. Thanks🤓
I’m heading home on Monday after doing two weeks alone in a quarantine government facility (we are not allowed to quarantine in our own home, after returning from travel abroad.) Your videos have been so enjoyable and helped me keep my sanity! Love to you guys!
Those okra seed pods are stunning. Since you only need a few for seed, the rest would make an amazing wreath.
Thank you for your recommendations. We are enjoying your channel & learning a lot. Would you please tell the roasting pepper that you recommended? We couldn’t quite understand it to spell it out & look it up.
@@cathysnyder4786 Ajvarski peppers
Sell the extra to florists ! Beautiful, they would make lovely fall arrangements and wreaths !
@@Frankie_902 THANK YOU!
@@cathysnyder4786 You're more than welcome❤
-Frankie-
One may find You Tube videos as educational and pleasant BUT one will find NONE BETTER than yours. You are both terrific and LTH is among the first YT channels I check daily. Very Nice Job...Thank you for sharing.
It's so sad 😭😭 to see an empty garden. I just love the greenery and the colors.
Dearest Sarah! Are you feeling puny right now? This the end of the season! You may need some deep rest over the air ter. You are so very much loved. Please take some of your herbs, rest, take good care of yourself.
Bravo! Thank you, Jesus for a bountiful Harvest. God bless this Family and Farm.
I hope you realize what a pleasure it is to be able to tune into your channel and be able to calm down and enjoy stressfree, positive videos during these trying times. Much enjoyed and appreciated.
Love you all.
Thank you so much!
My late father-in-law always planted sugar baby and one called moon and star, they were both super sweet, some seeds but not a ton of seeds.
We agree with the Moon and Stars variety. Heirloom 5kg ish in size, great taste.
I grew Sugar Babies this year and I was not impressed, way too many seeds and flavor was bland
We’ve done moon and star...smaller and round and very pretty ‘star’ shapes in flesh
My AhDa and Grandmother G.G. planted Sugar Babies and they always had a good patch of melons:)!
Thank you. I haven't seen frost in 24 yrs living in Central Florida. It is hard to have a summer garden but being able to grow tomatoes almost year round you just can't beat it.
I picked a half bushel of peppers yesterday before the frost last night. Yes, a half bushel is a peck of peppers. Thanks for the video. God Bless, stay safe.
😮 I never knew what a peck of peppers was until now! A half bushel...well I’ll be. The Peter Piper Rhyme suddenly has more clarity! 😂
A peck is a quarter bushel.
I like to use dried okra pods for floral decorations. During the holidays I spray paint them gold or silver, sprinkle with glitter, then put in arrangements or put them on our Christmas tree!
As much as I love Spring for it's vibrant colors and bursts of life nothing compares to that first really frosty day in the fall where everything has that hush to it, except for the crows, you can see your breath on the air and you stand in the sun soaking up some warmth while you look out at all the frost. it's truly magical.
You have a beautiful farm and are so blessed with such wonderful partnership in your marriage. God Bless you for sharing so much of your happy farm life and experience. I loved the way you warmed up to Rose the new Dairy cow. That was really sweet. Nothing more beautiful than a cow or calf. Rest this Winter and God Bless you both and farm. You deserve some rest!
I am 70 years old...the best watermelon I ever had was a variety called Congo. It won awards in 1950 as the sweetest and juiciest. My Uncle grew them to sell and always sold out. It canbe hard to find. GoodLuck for your lifestyle and God Bless!
Oooh, I love those, too!
The water melon that I like best is the sugar baby (small) and the sugar daddy (about the size of a basket ball). Very sweet
Every gardner needs to find the best plants for their area.
We planted only ONE watermelon this year in our backyard garden. It’s a round one, red inside, nice and sweet. Once some other stuff was winding down, the watermelon plant just took off, took over the garden and part of the grass! and has given us one or two per week since late August. So fun.
Another Aussie here who has enjoyed following your farming journey. It’s been a lot of fun. The kids and I just harvested our sweet potatoes this morning 😀
I love seeing the two of you working together as a team! ❤️
I just learned this year that you can overwinter pepper plants indoors. Just remove all the leaves and cut them down, then put them in pots and bring them in. Mine are already happily growing new leaves.
Here in Nebraska SE we had great success with the celebrity and sworn that we will grow it again next year. My husband's father always grew this variety and finally convinced me it's the only tomato we will grow next year.
I just want to say how impressed I am at how neat and organized your homestead is. I know it’s a lot of work . But you do a great job and work hard and it shows.
Had a Louisiana Green Velvet okra that reached up over 16' one year. Had to tie a cord up 3/4 of the way and pull the top of the plant downward to reach the ones growing up high.
I liked those, too:)!! Very nice, didn't turn woody.
We grew the SANGRIA WATERMELON this year. Very sweet and I didn't find it to have too many seeds. We enjoyed this watermelon so much, it will be planted again next year.
Remember you have a farm now. You now have all the room you need to grow corn, watermelon, and anything that takes up a lot of space. Also ,apples,peaches, pears, plums, cherry, maybe grapes, blueberries, thornless blackberries, the list goes on and on. I hope you two have the best crop ever. I love you guys.
Have you ever tried the heirloom Cherokee purple tomato ? Wonderful ! I so loved following your gardens and animals this summer. Be blessed and favored ❤️🙏🏽
I freeze my corn with the husk on. Leave out to defrost, peel away the husk and grill it.... OMG! Fresh Corn all WINTER!
After I had my first garden with some success. I when to visit my grandparents garden. I was absolutely astonished at how ruthless they were at getting rid of poorly producing plants and anything diseased weak. I expressed my concern and he told me when they had to depend on their garden to eat you cannot hem and haw about what is doing good or you will go hungry. He jerked out a whole hill of potatoes 6 feet across because they were barely up when he others were blooming. Thanks for this. I never thought of it in terms of real survival.
Sarah it's really good to see you are still vibrant and full of life like you were. Summer growing has done well for y'all. Maybe your winter planting will be even better. Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend.
When it’s really a hot summer and not a lot of rain skins on vegetables and fruits tend to get thick and with tomatoes they crack!
The northeast had a dry season. We had a good year after all, in my 2 small garden plots. I use raised beds large plastic pots, and black cloth growing bags. Square foot gardening works well. We buy all our plants from a nursery nearby, because the slugs get the grown planted seed shoots A lot of hand watering each day. We grew zucchini, Butternut squash, tomatoes, Russet potatoes (Not much of a yield this year) (consumed them in a month) and Gourd pumpkins( these I started in side on window sill and was surprised to get them to grow). My success this year was I did not get a lot of bugs. Only a squirrel- Liked the tomato's, chipmunks and birds got all of the blue berries and strawberries. They pecked on the zucchini, some. Got a lot in the freezer, after all. Expanding a little more next year.
We had our first frost last night in NE Mississippi. I picked the last of the peppers, my Lima beans (butter beans) are still loaded with blooms. I hate to loose them.
I always plant celebrity tomatoes but this year was not a good year for them. They were misshaped and didn’t get very big. Never had this problem before 🤷🏻♀️. I did plant the Jet star and Jet Setter was impressed with both of them.
Kevin and Sarah, thank you both so much for keeping us posted on what worked as well as what didn’t.
I planted Star of David Okra this year. Oh my goodness, the biggest plants I have ever seen. They grew to at least 12-14 feet high and the stalks were 5-6 “ in diameter. I saved seed, they were delicious. My biggest problem with them was by the time the got 4-5 inches long they were too hard.
Blessings y’all 🙏🏻🥰🍂🍁
The Black Diamond water melon is one of the most flavor melons we have here. There are seeds but the flavor is worth it. And the seeds are good for the next years crop.
Roadside stands sell "watermelons" during the season unless they are Black Diamonds and then they advertise them as such and they are expensive. .Black Diamonds warrant a premium during watermelon season in my area because of its taste so would give it a try.
Black Diamond is the one and only watermelon, that my Grandfather grew. My Grandfather new a lot about varieties that do well in sandy soil, this one is a winner!
@@deb5710 if grandpa grew and loved them, black diamond id the winner❤
@@dianapollex3266 Thanks! My Grandfather has been gone since 1979, but I can still hear him saying after he would cut one of the Black Diamonds open, "Okay, who wants a piece of the heart of the melon." Great memories!
Black Diamond is my absolute favorite. It has the BEST flavor 😋
Y’all’s garden is always so impressive. You hit it on the head about different varieties doing well in different areas. We certainly had some winners and losers this year as well. We did the marketmore because of y’all and they produced fantastic. You had an awesome harvest that will bless your family all year. Y’all take care and thanks for all the great information.
Could you use juice of the least favorite somehow? The birds would probably love all those seeds, and pickle the rind.
Sounds like Father blessed your garden efforts.
Praise Him!
Marketmore cucumber did fabulously for me too. Whoever put the seed out did a fabulous, fabulous job! Maybe somebody did the smart move of growing a field of seed, letting things go to seed of what they could not sell. Let your fields go to seed to sell seed for sprouting.
We just love your channel. We have learned so much for you both. Our winners were Jimmy Nardello peppers, Cantelope, yellow and orange peppers and beets! Our losers were pumpkins, onions and summer squash!
What a bountiful and colorful harvest. I enjoy watching your videos so much. Thank you for always sharing with us. God Bless and keep you all safe.
Thanks for great reminder video - our first frost is on the way and I need to get outside and grab the remaining peppers and herbs! God's continued blessings.
I grew over 30 varieties of tomatoes this year. The worse ones were sub artic, and micro tom tomato. Best tomato was 4th of july and orange hat and siletz. I live on the southern oregon coast so we dont get warm. But I did have the best tomato harvest I have ever gotten. In fact I'm still getting ripening tomatoes in the middle of October. Also loved the KAJARI melons. They are our favorite melon ever! We'll grow alot more next year. Also liked the golden midget watermelons. Loved the sweet dumpling winter squash. And the buttercup winter squash. Our garden did fantastic this year. And we are still harvesting lots. Got potatoes growing 3 ft right now for end of November harvest. Already got 162 pounds of potatoes out of 27 bins. Replanted 18 for fall harvest. Tried growing okra. Will have to grow it next year in the greenhouse. Not warm enough outside here for it. Got so many table queen acorn squash off of 2 sets of 3 plants. In fact more are flowering and setting fruit right now. I'm getting tired of the garden about now. And still have quite a bit of canning left to do.
Back when I had a country craft/antique booth I painted the dry okras to look like Santa for Christmas ornaments.
Glad Jetstar works so well for you. 2 years in a
row in SE Coastal VA, they were horrible. Tiny, very small despite fertilization, early to blight. Same with Jetsetter. We have HUGE SUCCESS WITH ROMAS. 50 lbs! For slicers, Cherokee Purple is amazing. Huge, sweet, over 1 pounders that went on forever. Heirloom for seed saving.
Thanks so much for Adjvarski! Ours are still bearing fruit and we have enjoyed SO MANY oven roasted w avocado oil, salt and garlic powder! I didnt think anything could beat Jimmy Nardello, but they do! A keeper! I will be trying to overwinter a few this year. Emerald giant and California wonder didnt do well, but anaheim chilis are amazing too.
Dont forget to amend your soil well, broadfork and you will.get huge success with sweet potatoes next year. Remember they are a dual use plant as well, the greens are amazingly sweet in stir fry and salads. I freeze greens of all kinds to use for winter cooking each year- spinach, chard, broccoli, sweet potato and I also freeze garlic scapes. Despite BT and neem, for a few years cukes (marketmore, straight eight, lemon) have failed for us. Sigh. I even injected the stems like my squash and they didnt make it. I was able however, to grow my first squash in 3 years w BT injections and Danny and Wanda's Cherokee Tan Pumpkins are just turning yellow now. Hope they ripen before the first frost. We are getting down into the mid 40s at night now. Last frost mid Nov. Enjoy and bless your family.
A very lovely lifestyle. Congratulations on your successes and God Bless you all.
It has been a pleasure being subscribed to you since February. So much has happened and I have learned a lot. Thanks for it all . It's been quite a year
I would like to thank you very much for sharing your secret to a weedless garden, the polyethylene fabric weed barrier. I put it on my big bed and pulled only about three minutes worth of weeds the entire season and that was just on the outside edge that was growing around the marigolds that I used as a border.
In contrast, last year I spent probably 6-8 hours weeding that bed on each of two separate occasions and it still grew over by August and was an absolute jungle with only the tomatoes growing above the weed level. Your suggestion, combined with building two 4’x8’x30” inch tall raised beds, made gardening a pleasure rather than a nightmarish chore.
Unfortunately, by the time I finally got around to picking out a design for the raised beds, buying the materials and building them, plus weeding out the big garden before applying the weed barrier, it was mid June before I planted and my only real successes were lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and cilantro. Spinach did not grow at all, peppers produced only a couple tiny fruits, I got two heads of broccoli from six plants, +2 heads of cauliflower from six plants, had nice carrot and beet greens, but no harvestable roots, and unlike in past years, my basil didn’t really grow either. Ditto with two types of sugar snap peas. I got two nice 14 inch pumpkins, but built my 8 foot tall trellis for them too late in the season and made some other mistakes that I won’t repeat.
Next year I think I’m going to need to really plan a lot better for the amount of sun my three raised beds get. And start a lot of seeds indoors in March so that I can plant in early May.
You can surely sell okra seeds come spring.
You guys are great farmers and dry hard workers so your harvest are winners always. Watermelons do come with seeds haven’t see one without seeds.
Beautiful frosty shots you got of the garden. I love hearing your winners and losers.
Sugar Baby Watermelon what we grew
I love watching you guys. I have no homestead, just a tiny garden, lol.
Our favorite tomato of the season was yellow oxheart. It didn't put on fruit until late, but when it did we got a ton of huge tomatoes from the one plant we planted. They were delicious too! I will grow them every year from now on.
Black Diamond is a second here. My aunt and uncle grew these in western Kansas. I've seen my 5"4 95 pound mother put away a gallon of this in a single setting. The flesh is a deep pink almost red. You won't be disappointed with these. Also get a book on companion planting. I put marigolds next to my tomatoes and never have an issue with pests or bugs.
Putting fresh corn up is so easy pull shulks and corn silks back just enough to cut the end off where the worm is, pull the shulks and silks back up put a rubber band around the top. Throw in a zipp lock bag and freeze. When you cook them they are as fresh as the day you picked them.
The Early Moonbeam is a very prolific and yummy yellow flesh watermelon. We were very impressed. It does have seeds but I’d say a normal amount.
After that first heavy frost it's time to pick the grapes and make the Grappa.
Always plant MORE veggies than you can use, your stock can eat them during the winter. My grandma always grew more pumpkins than we could use so we fed them to the pigs and cows over winter time. I am sure you can do the same with other veggies.
For those who dont know about seed saving hybrid varieties: you CAN save the seeds from those fruits, but the plant from said seed will most likely differ slightly from the hybrid parent. Basically the fruits will vary from those the year before so if you just want tomatoes just save any from your existing plants cuz the plants you have will have stronger genetics for your region than new seeds coming in, but if you want a pure variety then thats when you buy seeds lol
Had our first frost over night also. Spent my afternoon, evening picking peppers, tomatoes & squash. So sad to see my garden go. Brought all my herbs in the garage to prep to come indoors for the winter. Because of all your advice my garden harvest was absolutely amazing! Now time to plant my garlic today!!!
Oh btw same thing happened to my yellow peppers! Right when turning yellow they also got little soft spots. I thought I was doing something wrong.
Ultimately people need to try several varieties. Then find what works best for you in your area. Plants that do well for someone in their area. May not do as well for someone else in a different area. God bless
Gongrats with your great harvest.
I have so enjoyed this journey with you. Thank you for showing this all.
God bless you all.
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Dont see you all as much. Hope all is well. Take care, lv an prayers.
Travis over at Hoss Tools gave a really favourable review of the baby doll watermelon. It is a yellow fleshed one but the flavour is supposed to be fantastic.
Thank you Lord for the bounty of your land. You’ve worked so hard. Thanks for sharing.
Peaches and Cream Corn is one of my favorite varieties. My absolute favorite variety of watermelon and one that grows well in KY is the Sugar Baby variety. They are a small watermelon that weighs about 12 to 14 lbs. They have fewer seeds and very sweet flesh.
If you want to have some Kernal corn . Using a couple bunt pans to very easily remove the corn from the husk !!! So simple , place the end of the husk over the hole in bunt pan ( need pans with different size holes in their tops )push , have a piece of plywood with a hole under pan across a container to catch cob !! Corn stays in pan , husk is gone !!
Wow! We are still in the 90’s here in Paso Robles, CA! Love you guys. I’ve learned so much from you! 💞
Here where I live in Louisiana, it's 48 this morning.
Why are you still in California??
I enjoyed following you guys through the summer. This year was my first time really planting all types of veggies. For a first timer I think I did well. The saddest part was last week when I had to take down all of my trellises and put all of my containers away. Now when I go into the backyard it looks empty. Can't wait until spring to try it again. I'll check on you guys and see what happens with your winter harvest. Stay well.
Sun Moon and Stars...gorgeous melon, great taste, fewer seeds!!!
Well firstly I would not even get out of bed if we had temperatures like that here in Brisbane Australia (sorry I am a summer girl)- & secondly the WINNERS are all of us who get to watch you guys !!!!! Loved hearing the good & the bad growing as I have just picked the most amazing Capsicum (pepper I guess) that I have ever grown- it is a Californian Wonder ( my first time growing as I fail with capsicums) IT IS AMAZING & I am so excited.
Trying some watermelons this year for the first time so at this stage can't recommend any- I have a small backyard (very tidy) vege garden so bit limited guys. Cheers Denise- Australia
What a wonderful job Sarah and Kevin you have done on your homestead! Looking forward to your winter gardening! You are both awesome and blessed!
Celebrity, Early Girl, and Big Boy do great in northern Michigan! Jet Star do fantastic also and Better Boy. At least on our homestead. Sugar Baby watermelons do great here too. We also grow Peaches & Cream corn! It does fantastic here.
Great job guys, thank you for sharing, keep safe,
My favorite videos of yours are harvesting and showing the gardens. Followed by the homestead upkeep.
I missed the video of harvesting okra.
We had our first frost about ten days ago, so about a week before you. We trialed a bunch of tomato varieties this year.
Our German Johnson tomatoes produced beautifully. Big Orange and Pink Brandywine also made the cut.
It's been very cold here, the shoulder seasons too short and too cold to keep tomatoes (and peppers) outside, we grow them exclusively in the hoop house. It's time to cut them down and get the hoop house ready for the flock that overwinters in there (and works the soil for us!).
Beautiful video, best wishes from Indiana.
Such a bittersweet time, putting the garden to bed....
Thank-you for a beautiful video.
Sugar Baby watermelon, cotton candy corn, kentucky wonder green beans & purple hull peas are all my favorites.
In planting corn they are supposed to be planted in blocks not rows because of the cross pollinating. I just learned that a couple years ago.
We love the sugar baby watermelon. Sweet and not too big.
The farmer across the road from us grew a yellow watermelon this year and they were so sweet and not a lot of seeds.
Surprisingly no frost here in south central Kentucky
You guys are homestead rockstars!!!! I wish I was younger and knew all that you do about homesteading, cuz I’d be a homestead rockstar too! Lol☺️
Ground cover really makes your job easier
Can you imagine working in HR in the current year?!?!? What a lovely garden thank you for sharing.
The 2 varieties of peppers that I grew in NJ and my daughter grew in NY are capsicum annuum-hybrid sweet orange pepper, envelope says GLOW f1 from Johnny andCarmen sweet, a red pepper from Fedco seeds. Both were prolific, healthy and delicious
My rock stars were my spaghetti squash...3 plants gave me about 12 to 15 squash. My tomatoes did ok. My Anne raspberry which were planted on June as bare roots, gave me fruit this fall and boy are they yummy for a pale gold raspberry. They are huge and so pretty and tasty. My peppers did awesome as well.
I love watching you two. You are both so real:)
Dixie queen watermelon. My family went crazy for it. Sweetest watermelon we've ever had.
My best tomatoes ever (loaded, long producing, climb over and out of the cages) are Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine:)!!! Tons. Feed heavy with barn manure and rotted mulch. They are unbelievable- I adore. Oh, and I believe it may make a difference where the seed come from. I buy those from Bakers creek.
Goodmorning.
In Alberta is winter now. Minus 12°C
15cm snow on the ground.
So its real winter here.
Love to see your video.
Please say hi to the kids too.
Big hug 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I couldn't tell you how many seeds they might have, but our 2 favorites for growing in SW MO are Charleston Gray & our very favorite, Black Diamond. My husband's family used to truck garden these two, and always had great success. The black diamond is my favorite to eat, very rich pink/red meat and not too thick skin.