Jess and Miah- I've been following you for many years. When you post a new video, I just automatically hit the "like" button as soon as I start watching. I appreciate your CONSISTANT quality content! Whether it's the Farmers Table, Roots and Refuge, or Miahs Workshop, I always know it's gonna be good- and it is.
[laughs in canadian winter] I know, different climates, different issues. Ain't growing anything in January in my yard, for sure 😂. [Freezing tears not rolling onto cheeks]
I had a giggle too. Saturday was 3C and today is -20C, lol. Nothing goes outside here until mid April. Even then, I could get the same yoyo in temperatures in April. I think I need a little tunnel or two! 😅
@angelad.8944 I'd love to be able to extend the season too if I'd have more space (and money 🫠). I know we can successfully keep things in ground -not growing of course- until pretty late, if protected enough. Eating fresh greens at Christmas maybe? In the meantime, I have a few things indoors under lighting 🙂
Oh my, your calm demeanor and absolute focus on the present moment, the earth and the natural world is what was needed so very much today. Thank you, Jess ❤
Thank you Jess. You should really try growing onions from seed. The onion sets I think are second year onions making them quicker to bolt. Seeds are cheap. You can start them in the green house. Lots of seed in 1 pot. Separate and plant in the high tunnel. Take care and I bless you.
Been watching many many years and never once commented. Just want you to know how much I appreciate every single video and your kind wonderful heart. :)
I went to our downtown farm store. It has food on one side and farm things on the other. In the store the manager gave me a form with all the veggie plants that we can plant in our area and at what times. They even had seeds that I couldn't believe the amount of seeds that I was able to get for such a low price. They had soil, fertilizers, and so much more. I do hope that we all will utilize our neighborhood stores. Take care everyone and Jess!!
My parents grew a garden all through my younger years and into my teens and they could never grow root vegetables because they always tried growing them in the summer garden. Back then, you didn’t have access to any information at your fingertips and we didn’t have a lot of money so buying books wasn’t really an option. My mom, who is 62 found out from your channel (which I got her hooked on btw 😂) that you should grow root vegetables in the cooler months and when we watched one of your videos on growing root vegetables in the cooler months, she was so excited because she wasn’t a failure at growing root veggies, She just wasn’t growing them at the right time. Lol! Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
My garden is under 6 inches of snow there’s nothing worth watching on TV. So thank you for sharing. Im grateful to enjoy watching your goat butts. 😊 Thank you for being you. ❤️💡🙏
My main garden bed (outside and above ground) is filled with snow peas, garlic, lettuce and spinach and maybe one or two random broccoli that I planted in late Fall and they are all doing great. I have never done a winter garden before this year except onions and garlic that are overwintered. I feel victorious and blessed!
I am going to do some of my carrots in my raised bed (water trough) but then wait a week or so to do more. I could have staggered start or only one but learning through trying!!!
The Bolero carrots are orange ones but they are known to be great for storage after harvesting!! I got those pelleted seeds last year and they were great!!!
Bolero carrots are orange and are fantastic growers! They store really well, too, and when grown over the winter, they are so so so sweet during the spring harvest!
LOVE your mug! Thanks for all of the info. My 3rd yr gardening in Colorado at 7800 ft. It's hit or miss, but having so much fun partnering with God to grow some lovely things. (-30 two nights ago. I'll be waiting until April to sow outside😊)
I saw the goats and remembered earlier this year how they were running behind you because you left them outside the barn😂 they sure settled in! I'm going to start winter sowing before this freeze comes in a few days.
I absolutely agree!! I put frost covers over my raised beds and I have been able to harvest Swiss chard. And some other cold hardy plants are growing as well!! I have really enjoyed the winter garden this year. Thank you for sharing this, it helps!! 😊
Amazing. I have planted snap peas, kale, cauliflower and spinach. Carrots popped up in planter that had carrots I picked already. Now we had bad cold weather. They have been covered. I know when I uncover them that they will soar for me in spring. Tthey are doing as well as expected. Thank you for talking at the end about them.
When you dig the saffron, you can separate them and have more next year 🥰✅️ when you keep the plot free of weeds they will do best.. Love and blessings from the Netherlands 💫🫶
If the ground isn’t frozen, my garden gets going around St Patrick’s Day snap peas, beets and radishes are sown. Lettuce and brassica seedlings start their hardening off. The asparagus and strawberry beds get cleaned out. The good thing is there’s also corned beef and cabbage simmering on the stove to come in too!
Oh my, it's so cold my eggs are freezing before I can gather them. Negative degrees through Wednesday 😮 I need to go check for eggs again. Stay warm y'all ❤
I've given up and the eggs are collected, frozen, once a day, defrosted and scrambled up for the dogs dinner lol. It was exhausting to get dressed up in winter gear multiple times a day to go out when I can just drink tea huddled in a blanket on the couch lol
Up north... winter sowing in milk jugs is the best! No day to day or week to week maintenance in Jan, Feb or March. With care as needed in April you can plant before the last frost because the plants are acclimatized.
Every tunnel, high tunnel or every section you should have like a little 4 x 4 post of quick tools that you would need. I’ve learned to do that instead of walking, looking for shears or a shovel. I have a section now that I can buy tools that have the hole I can hang a rope on them And I need a trim. I have scissors that every section I need a shovel. Every section has a shovel. I seen that little hack where you can get an old toolbox or an antique mailbox and put your garden tools in there but for me I just went to the dollar store and picked up those Inexpensive scissors and those little hanging racks and I have them hanging different places through my garden. It saves me from running around back-and-forth and stuff so just a suggestion every time I should have his so little you know we can grab whatever you need knives scissors shovel.🌱🌱🌱
Great video! This is my first year trying any brassicas and carrots. I think I'm going to sow a few more of those next week. Also, this is a great time to do winter sowing for anything that needs cold stratification.
Good afternoon!! -7(-14 this morning) in Newport, Minnesota. I can’t plant anything outside other the my 18 spring water jugs that I’m winter sowing, I do have lettuce and spinach starting to germinate in my tiny grow room in my basement!!😁
Never thought to look up average lows by month, but it makes so mush sense. Going to try some container greens in my greenhouse/3 season room and see how they do for the next couple months. Thanks for the inspiration. You always get me thinking of how to grow more or better!
So, I did a thing. I'm hoping you'll try it too, so I can know if I just got lucky. I had a bunch of old carrot seeds. I just sprinkled them all over 3 beds. I covered them with a good layer of perlite. I had great germination even though I didn't water and it barely rained at all. No covering, no checking, no hassle.
The Old Farmer's Almanac is a great resource for what to plant when, based upon your location. You supply your zip code, and you can see which veggies you can plant and when!
I use the winter sowing method to start seeds outside for strong seedlings to move to greenstalk or in-ground garden when they are ready. That minimizes risk and gives me a head start in years where weather prompts seeds to sprout earlier than usual.
I also find little envelopes of seeds with just a general name on them. We have Spring seed exchanges all over Canada and I will grab new to me seeds every year. Most are labelled as to what variety they are though. I think sometimes, in the haste of fall, we gardeners get a whimsy to save seed spontaneously and that is when you end up with "beets". 😅 Like you said, they must of been good since you made the effort to save the seeds. The variety will be a nice surprise for you. ☺
I needed a break over this winter season, so the crops I did plant really late in the fall, I just left them to fend for themselves lol. I used some kale, but everything else died with the freezes we had. Not too sad about it, I’ll start over with the summer garden.
I'm in zone 5 in MN and last year I was buying compost and fertilizer in March... the checkout clerk looked at me like I was nuts and said "there's still snow on the ground!" 😂 Can't imagine getting to grow all year round!
I can't tolerate heat, so I could not live where you do. However, my husband's diesel truck would not start this morning because the diesel gelled. So he took my car to work and it read -37 Fahrenheit. I woke up to my house being 55. Temps reached just above 0 today.
All the snow melted on Saturday as we had bout an inch of rain and +5C but overnight Sunday-Monday we got bout 1 foot of snow and now (Monday night) its -30C(-22F) with the wind. :s I want it to be March!
About 5C here in UK (not raining today actually 😂). Not warm enough to plant much out but I will look at calendula and try planting early. Probably still have to start in pots, else they will be eaten by slugs.
Hey Jess, would you consider putting your old Tshirt designs in the shop? When they were out, i couldn’t afford them but there are so many I would love to buy now if they were available.
No growing anything here til April! But primroses and crocus bloom hete first in my n. Idaho yard. Our winter came late and is just now acting like wintwr. Our lake here is usually a ice fishing lake but not this year. Its just now freezing! Crazy weather this year!
Jess and Miah-
I've been following you for many years.
When you post a new video, I just automatically hit the "like" button as soon as I start watching. I appreciate your CONSISTANT quality content! Whether it's the Farmers Table, Roots and Refuge, or Miahs Workshop, I always know it's gonna be good- and it is.
Thank you for your kind words!
Same here. It’s like getting a letter/zoom call from a friend. It’s all good!
[laughs in canadian winter] I know, different climates, different issues. Ain't growing anything in January in my yard, for sure 😂. [Freezing tears not rolling onto cheeks]
I had a giggle too. Saturday was 3C and today is -20C, lol. Nothing goes outside here until mid April. Even then, I could get the same yoyo in temperatures in April. I think I need a little tunnel or two! 😅
@angelad.8944 I'd love to be able to extend the season too if I'd have more space (and money 🫠). I know we can successfully keep things in ground -not growing of course- until pretty late, if protected enough. Eating fresh greens at Christmas maybe? In the meantime, I have a few things indoors under lighting 🙂
It's minus -50 with the windchill today in Central Sask..i wish we could be planting seeds lol!
@@skipper7216 living through Southern gardeners hehe 😄
Yep, same here lol...
St. Joseph Island, Ontario here. Right now it's ❄️🌨️☃️ so bitterly cold, sub zero cold 😂 but we can dream 😁
Oh my, your calm demeanor and absolute focus on the present moment, the earth and the natural world is what was needed so very much today. Thank you, Jess ❤
Thank you Jess. You should really try growing onions from seed. The onion sets I think are second year onions making them quicker to bolt. Seeds are cheap. You can start them in the green house. Lots of seed in 1 pot. Separate and plant in the high tunnel. Take care and I bless you.
Been watching many many years and never once commented. Just want you to know how much I appreciate every single video and your kind wonderful heart. :)
I went to our downtown farm store. It has food on one side and farm things on the other. In the store the manager gave me a form with all the veggie plants that we can plant in our area and at what times. They even had seeds that I couldn't believe the amount of seeds that I was able to get for such a low price. They had soil, fertilizers, and so much more. I do hope that we all will utilize our neighborhood stores. Take care everyone and Jess!!
My parents grew a garden all through my younger years and into my teens and they could never grow root vegetables because they always tried growing them in the summer garden. Back then, you didn’t have access to any information at your fingertips and we didn’t have a lot of money so buying books wasn’t really an option. My mom, who is 62 found out from your channel (which I got her hooked on btw 😂) that you should grow root vegetables in the cooler months and when we watched one of your videos on growing root vegetables in the cooler months, she was so excited because she wasn’t a failure at growing root veggies, She just wasn’t growing them at the right time. Lol! Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
My garden is under 6 inches of snow there’s nothing worth watching on TV.
So thank you for sharing.
Im grateful to enjoy watching your goat butts. 😊
Thank you for being you.
❤️💡🙏
My main garden bed (outside and above ground) is filled with snow peas, garlic, lettuce and spinach and maybe one or two random broccoli that I planted in late Fall and they are all doing great. I have never done a winter garden before this year except onions and garlic that are overwintered. I feel victorious and blessed!
i find learning through just trying! thats the great thing about seeds, they are a low cost investment to try!
I am going to do some of my carrots in my raised bed (water trough) but then wait a week or so to do more. I could have staggered start or only one but learning through trying!!!
The Bolero carrots are orange ones but they are known to be great for storage after harvesting!! I got those pelleted seeds last year and they were great!!!
Bolero carrots are orange and are fantastic growers! They store really well, too, and when grown over the winter, they are so so so sweet during the spring harvest!
Great advice! I can’t wait to have a garden again🌻. It just sings to my soul.
In Maine zone 4/5, I do winter sowing
It works great for me cause I don't have much room to start seeds indoors.
LOVE your mug! Thanks for all of the info. My 3rd yr gardening in Colorado at 7800 ft. It's hit or miss, but having so much fun partnering with God to grow some lovely things. (-30 two nights ago. I'll be waiting until April to sow outside😊)
Partnering with God to grow something. Amen sister! I live how you look at it. I’m going to look at things differently now.
I saw the goats and remembered earlier this year how they were running behind you because you left them outside the barn😂 they sure settled in! I'm going to start winter sowing before this freeze comes in a few days.
Thanks for sharing your planting info & may you get through the cold easily. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌲
I absolutely agree!! I put frost covers over my raised beds and I have been able to harvest Swiss chard. And some other cold hardy plants are growing as well!! I have really enjoyed the winter garden this year. Thank you for sharing this, it helps!! 😊
Thanks for sharing your experience with winter sowing. The hardiness those plants get amazes me every time.
Amazing. I have planted snap peas, kale, cauliflower and spinach. Carrots popped up in planter that had carrots I picked already. Now we had bad cold weather. They have been covered. I know when I uncover them that they will soar for me in spring. Tthey are doing as well as expected. Thank you for talking at the end about them.
When you dig the saffron, you can separate them and have more next year 🥰✅️ when you keep the plot free of weeds they will do best.. Love and blessings from the Netherlands 💫🫶
Enjoyed the video
broccoli, cranberries cash chews purple onion and bacon and cream cheese mmmmmm...... great tasting served cold
We have 6 babies ❤ 4 mama's. Dang goats lol 3 weeks earlier then expected.
As it is -35C where I am right now, I thoroughly enjoyed this video today! 🥶😊
If the ground isn’t frozen, my garden gets going around St Patrick’s Day snap peas, beets and radishes are sown. Lettuce and brassica seedlings start their hardening off. The asparagus and strawberry beds get cleaned out. The good thing is there’s also corned beef and cabbage simmering on the stove to come in too!
Thank you Jess for sharing. God bless.❤️✝️🙏
Oh my, it's so cold my eggs are freezing before I can gather them. Negative degrees through Wednesday 😮
I need to go check for eggs again. Stay warm y'all ❤
Ditto
I've given up and the eggs are collected, frozen, once a day, defrosted and scrambled up for the dogs dinner lol. It was exhausting to get dressed up in winter gear multiple times a day to go out when I can just drink tea huddled in a blanket on the couch lol
@@angelagreen5144 hopefully it will warm up soon so you can have eggs for you and your family again.
Up north... winter sowing in milk jugs is the best! No day to day or week to week maintenance in Jan, Feb or March. With care as needed in April you can plant before the last frost because the plants are acclimatized.
Love ur farm! Great knowledge and thanks for sharing! The silver in ur hair looks great btw! I've been growing mine since 2020!
Well, I'm excited to see goat babies next month!
Every tunnel, high tunnel or every section you should have like a little 4 x 4 post of quick tools that you would need. I’ve learned to do that instead of walking, looking for shears or a shovel. I have a section now that I can buy tools that have the hole I can hang a rope on them And I need a trim. I have scissors that every section I need a shovel. Every section has a shovel. I seen that little hack where you can get an old toolbox or an antique mailbox and put your garden tools in there but for me I just went to the dollar store and picked up those Inexpensive scissors and those little hanging racks and I have them hanging different places through my garden. It saves me from running around back-and-forth and stuff so just a suggestion every time I should have his so little you know we can grab whatever you need knives scissors shovel.🌱🌱🌱
I was thinking she could just have a hori hori in each tunnel before I read your great idea
My favorite carrots are the Bolero. Beautiful orange, sweet carrots.
Great video! This is my first year trying any brassicas and carrots. I think I'm going to sow a few more of those next week. Also, this is a great time to do winter sowing for anything that needs cold stratification.
It's -35 degrees celcius here. Have a great day. :D
Good afternoon!! -7(-14 this morning) in Newport, Minnesota. I can’t plant anything outside other the my 18 spring water jugs that I’m winter sowing, I do have lettuce and spinach starting to germinate in my tiny grow room in my basement!!😁
Thank you. ❤❤❤
Onion sets take 2 years to produce large onions because they're biennial. If you plant onion seeds you'll get large onions that year.
Never thought to look up average lows by month, but it makes so mush sense. Going to try some container greens in my greenhouse/3 season room and see how they do for the next couple months. Thanks for the inspiration. You always get me thinking of how to grow more or better!
Zone 4 the dog and I are dreaming of the grass as we plung -5 or below tonight.
thanks for taking us along on the seed planting adventure!
So, I did a thing. I'm hoping you'll try it too, so I can know if I just got lucky.
I had a bunch of old carrot seeds. I just sprinkled them all over 3 beds. I covered them with a good layer of perlite. I had great germination even though I didn't water and it barely rained at all. No covering, no checking, no hassle.
The Old Farmer's Almanac is a great resource for what to plant when, based upon your location.
You supply your zip code, and you can see which veggies you can plant and when!
Your greenhouse looks great!
I use the winter sowing method to start seeds outside for strong seedlings to move to greenstalk or in-ground garden when they are ready. That minimizes risk and gives me a head start in years where weather prompts seeds to sprout earlier than usual.
Jess, please check the plastic in the high tunnel corner where you were planting carrots. It looks like it has come away from the frame.
I also find little envelopes of seeds with just a general name on them. We have Spring seed exchanges all over Canada and I will grab new to me seeds every year. Most are labelled as to what variety they are though. I think sometimes, in the haste of fall, we gardeners get a whimsy to save seed spontaneously and that is when you end up with "beets". 😅 Like you said, they must of been good since you made the effort to save the seeds. The variety will be a nice surprise for you. ☺
I needed a break over this winter season, so the crops I did plant really late in the fall, I just left them to fend for themselves lol. I used some kale, but everything else died with the freezes we had. Not too sad about it, I’ll start over with the summer garden.
I'm in zone 5 in MN and last year I was buying compost and fertilizer in March... the checkout clerk looked at me like I was nuts and said "there's still snow on the ground!" 😂 Can't imagine getting to grow all year round!
No winter gardening here in Michigan. -7
-20°~🎉 -30°F❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for reminding me I got order paralysis last year and never got it done. Onion sets ordered. Thank you.
I just started allium and herb seeds in my heated greenhouse in SW Ohio, Zone 6b.
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I'm from Massachusetts. Even though I've heard of a rudabegger, I have never seen one! Lol
We’re hitting negative this week in Michigan. I’m just dreaming of warm weather and my garden!
I can't tolerate heat, so I could not live where you do. However, my husband's diesel truck would not start this morning because the diesel gelled. So he took my car to work and it read -37 Fahrenheit. I woke up to my house being 55. Temps reached just above 0 today.
All the snow melted on Saturday as we had bout an inch of rain and +5C but overnight Sunday-Monday we got bout 1 foot of snow and now (Monday night) its -30C(-22F) with the wind. :s
I want it to be March!
I’ve never had a rutabaga !
Does that rooster think that he is a goat? Because every time I see the goats, he is always hanging with them. I guess they are best buds.
About 5C here in UK (not raining today actually 😂). Not warm enough to plant much out but I will look at calendula and try planting early. Probably still have to start in pots, else they will be eaten by slugs.
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Do you get any codes for greenstalk or Hoss. I'm so excited about planting this year. I was ill last year and my garden got ignored.
ROOTS10 for greenstalk
It’s 6 degrees with the feels like -11 here in Michigan lol
Jess your kitchen countertops are gorgeous!! Did sweet M. make them for you???
Hey Jess, would you consider putting your old Tshirt designs in the shop? When they were out, i couldn’t afford them but there are so many I would love to buy now if they were available.
Reminder that I’m now behind again this year 😂😂😂😂
great video we are to cold to do out side yet
Canada - 16C wind Chill - 27C😮
What kind of grass/ground cover do you have growing in your high tunnel?
What kind of high tunnel do you have?
you need to fix the plastic on the green house the wind has blown it open by the garden bed that you just put the rutabegas at
I noticed that, too. It makes me nervous.
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Hey Jess - Make a Goat butt coffee table book. 😂🤣😅. Could be a #1 best seller. LOL Just kidding.
No growing anything here til April! But primroses and crocus bloom hete first in my n. Idaho yard. Our winter came late and is just now acting like wintwr. Our lake here is usually a ice fishing lake but not this year. Its just now freezing! Crazy weather this year!
calenDula Notice there isn't a "G" in this word.
It is a good morning to wake up when I open youtube and Jess is on. 🦘🦘🦘 of happiness.