I grew up canning . we lived in a small village with several farms surrounding us. we often woke up to a back porch full of corn with a note saying these were to small to really sell but thought your family could use them . now I live in the suburbs and really miss that sense of community. I still can with my daughters when we are able . I currently have 22 tomato plants . getting ready to start seeds for the next round . I live in zone 8 . I love watching you guys.
Jill when you make those peppers please do a video of you cooking and the sauce. I’m sure others would love to see it. Then we can all grow them and try it as well. 🤔
Be careful with this heat it's no joke.. Bought a greenhouse cheap.... but the catch was I had to disassemble it. In this HEAT🔥🔥.. GOT SO HOT STARTED FREEZING...Sick last two days... STAY HYDRATED!!
One of my favorite memories of my mother was when I was about 3 yrs old and someone brought her 2 bushels of tomatoes. She canned the first bushel and then took a break and we sat on front porch with a salt shaker between us and ate tomatoes with dripping juices everywhere till we were full. It was evening time and that was our dinner. I was a sticky mess, she gave me a bath and put me in my jams and bed, but those tomatoes will always be in my memory.
No better feeling than preserving all the harvest from your hard work, especially with a house filled with fun and laughter of friends and family! That makes the harvest sweeter!
We are not growing the 500 tomato plants we did when growing up.150 plants so far and I'm preserving every bit I can by myself. There is nothing like going to the garden and eating a tomato like an apple. 😋
I love Barry's Crazy Cherries tomato plants. They are such great producers and the fruit is delicious. They also do really well in the heat and humidity of Louisiana. I'm in Zone 9a and those plants are still producing come August, which is unheard of here.
We live in Florida, and we too are not able to grow cilantro because of the heat and humidity. However this year, we came across culantro, it smells and tastes exactly cilantro, but it is a lot stronger so you only have to use about 1/10 of the amount because of how strong it is, this is our first year growing it, but it is doing really well with this hot and humid Florida weather! Y’all should look into it!
Yes, Miah did eat a tomato but I don't remember if it was in a sandwich or just plain. It took everything he had to get it down and keep it down but he did it! 😊👍
What am I doing wrong? Last year and this year my tomato plants are huge and look healthy, so green, lots of flowers, but almost no fruit. I say almost because a few of the cherry tomatoes have really tiny red tomatoes but they're awful. The skin feels gritty and at first I thought they were dirty, but no they just have rough skin. Don't know the variety. My toddler helped me plant by dumping out my seeds, lol. So everything is a surprise. Everything else I planted has done great. That is until pigweed showed up and took over. If anyone knows a safe way to get rid of that stuff I'd love to know. I spent a couple months trying to pick them but more just came, and they're very pokey. Some sections of my garden have pigweed taller than me. My fall garden will be in a different location.
Will you do a video with your salsa and diced tomato recipes and canning? I do freeze tomatoes when they are ripe and then I make tomato sauce but would love to turn frozen tomatoes into salsa or diced canned tomatoes as well.
I have one granddaughter out of 4 that loves to can with me. At 11, she can do as much as me. We spent all last weekend in the kitchen. Picking, slicing, cleaning, stuffing jars, etc. I hope she will remember these times fondly.
Have you ever fermented cherry tomatoes? I think that could be interesting. Also, I am right there with Nathan. I would bring a whole slicer tomato and a baggie of salt and pepper to school as my snack. My classmates thought I was so odd but it was delicious hahaha
💚 Wow, look at that Garden Fresh Harvest! The freeze-dried or dehydrated okra sounds so yummy! Thanks for sharing your Summer Harvest ideas and tips! 💚
Your harvest is amazing! I hope to gain the knowledge to get to that point some day. I am, however, struggling with a few things. Can you do a video on what you use to fertilize your garden and what, if anything, you use to battle pests. Are you an organic gardener? I see a lot of UA-camrs do videos on what to plant and when and even how to plant and how to start seeds, but I can't find any videos on what fertilizers to use and when and how to battle garden pests.
WOW NICE HAUL JILL AND NATHAN, REMINDS OF SUMMERS WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND OUR PRODUCE USE TO LINE UP OUR HALWAY AND WE WOULD WALK BY GRAB A TOMATO AND EAT IT LIKE AN APPLE GOING OUT THE DOOR.
Check out Caribe cilantro. I had a few plants that went through a summer with lots of days over 100 and then a winter that went down to -1. It's pretty much amazing.
Nate is my brother from another mother back there chain snackin the cherry tomatoes. Yummo!! Prayers for your water and well situation. What an amazing harvest thus far. God is SO good!
Nice video. Just an idea of using a mandolin or some type of slicer gadget just to save you time... especially if you do so much knife work. Time is money!
I love Barry's Crazy Cherry..I think they should call them Barry's Crazy Lemon Drops.. They look exactly like lemon drops candy.. Yes Miah did eat a large raw tomato in front of the camera.. I love tomatoes and peppers so so much.. Just praying they don't mess with my arthritis in my body.. Doing lots to counter these effects.. Love you two and your sweet videos! Congrats on your bountiful harvest so far! More to come!
don’t give up hope !! Keep praying for rain 🌧 we were also in a drought no rain for weeks and triple digits in heat 🥵🥵🥵 I was hand watering daily and I have lots of gardens too. I prayed everyday to God I begged for rain and relief and finally !!! On July 4th he answered with 5” of rain ❤️❤️❤️ of course we had destructive winds and a tornado and my gardens are a mess 😩😩 but their thirst is quenched ♥️♥️ I will pray for rain for you 🙏🙏🙏
Shishito peppers are amazing. Use the squizito herb de Provence vs butter and a little bit the black truffle salt no dip needed and way healthier. It's great stuff I love ordering Jens oils & products! Look on UA-cam there's a guy who made super simple cherry tomato & butter pasta. I can't wait for tomato to come in. Jealous southerners right now! Just waiting here up north 🙄 Jill I couldn't not do unique and tasty varieties but I did do few beds with hybrids. Red is ok but there's nothing like a unique tomato you can't just buy at store.
WOW all those tomatoes 🍅. I didn’t grow any this year. I didn’t really grow much of anything because I have been trying to pack my belongings into storage as I prepare to move from my current place. Lol don’t know yet where I’m going, but somewhere away from my current situation and this heat (FL). But man that harvest looks great 👍. Have a blessed day y’all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕👩🏻🌾🍅
Wow so awesome to see everything! I hope we get to see the canning process for all that! Really want to see the diced tomatoes and sauces, etc. I’ve got so many cucumbers I don’t even know what to do with all of them. Started making batches of fermented pickles but it’s hard to keep up with everything coming in despite me giving as much as I can away 😅.
Great haul. I am in north central Texas. This has been the absolute worst garden year I have had in over 20 years. Bad soil, seeds not germinating even my sunflowers, grasshoppers, HOT, bugs I have never seen before. But I am out there every day.
I’m off work so today’s garden day and so far I’ve spent the day setting up the coup so the month old chicks can now live loose with the big chickens. But we have to prioritize, as full time workers away from home. Thank you for sharing your day with us! I’m off to plant another round of sunflowers, zucchini, and prune/tie up tomatoes
Barry's cherries tomatoes are awesome! I grew those two years ago and now I know why they call them b a r r y 's crazy cherry tomatoes hahaha, because they grow insanely crazy. I was experimenting that time and not keeping them in cages or staking them I was letting them go wild just fall on the floor kind of deal and several feet away I was growing some steak tomatoes.. the steak tomatoes were getting Infested by caterpillars and the b a r r y 's crazy cherry tomatoes were not even phased they weren't even touched by these caterpillars so something about that cherry tomato the caterpillars did not like and you're right they are so prolific and they are so sweet that year I had given away so many to family and church family and I froze gallons of bags and the freezer and it was awesome. To this day I still remember those tomatoes and those are still one of my favorite cherry tomatoes to grow. We're here in Central Texas and the heat has been so intense that it is quite a challenge let me tell you. Without a greenhouse forget about it to me I think it just seems like it's getting hotter every year? But this year has been a major struggle with the gardens the tomato plants look great but I have not harvested anything but six tomatoes and a handful of teaspoon tomatoes because the temperatures are ranging from 101 to 104°. The heat is doing no good and that's where the frustration comes in to play. That is an awesome Harvest Jill and nate!
I love the Shishito peppers!! I have also dehydrated them and crumble them into quiche, on venison, in a stir fry and it is BOMB!!!! I literally was sad when I ran out of Shishito peppers and I'm growing like 6 plants this year because of that lol
Jill love your videos. but I think you need to sharpen your paring knife it should go through those tomatoes in one slice you’re making more work for yourself
I love that you dressed like a chef and did your own “cooking show” as a kid. How cool is that?!! And now - you have THOUSANDS of us watching and learning from you as you do all kinds of things in your kitchen!!! I absolutely love that! It’s even more amazing that Charlie is going to get to do the same with her grandma!!! What a beautiful legacy!
I’m only growing 4 tomato plants this year, more an issue of preparing the space. I have an atomic sunset Cherry, rapunzel cherry, pineapple slicer tomato and a mystery tomato! It was unlabeled at the nursery in the clearance section, I don’t think it’s a cherry variety but I’m eager to find out!!
You guys are amazing! Such hard workers. I am starting a vegetable CSA and was wondering where you got the information/template for your CSA contract? Thank you in advance!!!
I love this! It makes me to look forward to harvesting my tomatoes when they're ready, it won't be for at least another month up here in SK Canada. I wonder what harvesting 95 tomato plants will look like for me...by far the most I've ever planted! 🤣 I'm hoping to put up enough tomato sauce/diced tomatoes/salsa for the year for our family of 6.
I grew up canning . we lived in a small village with several farms surrounding us. we often woke up to a back porch full of corn with a note saying these were to small to really sell but thought your family could use them . now I live in the suburbs and really miss that sense of community. I still can with my daughters when we are able . I currently have 22 tomato plants . getting ready to start seeds for the next round . I live in zone 8 . I love watching you guys.
Jill when you make those peppers please do a video of you cooking and the sauce. I’m sure others would love to see it. Then we can all grow them and try it as well. 🤔
Be careful with this heat it's no joke..
Bought a greenhouse cheap.... but the catch was I had to disassemble it.
In this HEAT🔥🔥..
GOT SO HOT STARTED FREEZING...Sick last two days...
STAY HYDRATED!!
One of my favorite memories of my mother was when I was about 3 yrs old and someone brought her 2 bushels of tomatoes. She canned the first bushel and then took a break and we sat on front porch with a salt shaker between us and ate tomatoes with dripping juices everywhere till we were full. It was evening time and that was our dinner. I was a sticky mess, she gave me a bath and put me in my jams and bed, but those tomatoes will always be in my memory.
So sweet!
No better feeling than preserving all the harvest from your hard work, especially with a house filled with fun and laughter of friends and family! That makes the harvest sweeter!
We are not growing the 500 tomato plants we did when growing up.150 plants so far and I'm preserving every bit I can by myself. There is nothing like going to the garden and eating a tomato like an apple. 😋
I love Barry's Crazy Cherries tomato plants. They are such great producers and the fruit is delicious. They also do really well in the heat and humidity of Louisiana. I'm in Zone 9a and those plants are still producing come August, which is unheard of here.
Trying those BCC toms for the first time this season.
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Hi Jill. Can you make a video about how you found people to sell your produce?
I just LOVE what you said about still making memories with your parents and aunts and uncles as adults
And as a mom who's kids are grown tomorrow will be a great memory for her too
I could use a video on storing small amounts of a harvest. I hope I'm not the only one. I'm a beginner therefore don't get much at any time.
I’m new to canning. I’d love to see a video of your canning day.
In NE Mississippi where I live we’ve had .5” rain since sometime in May. There has been rain all around us but non where I live. WE NEED RAIN 🌧 ☔️
I read that you can freeze dry the bigger okra and crush them into a soup thickening agent without needing starch or flour.
Lol yes it was for the freeze dryer and yes Jeremiah did. Jess would give us update on his tomatoe she had picked out would be his.
We live in Florida, and we too are not able to grow cilantro because of the heat and humidity. However this year, we came across culantro, it smells and tastes exactly cilantro, but it is a lot stronger so you only have to use about 1/10 of the amount because of how strong it is, this is our first year growing it, but it is doing really well with this hot and humid Florida weather! Y’all should look into it!
In the Caribbean we call it Chadon Beni (we pronounce it "Shadow Benny" lol).
Yes, Miah did eat a tomato but I don't remember if it was in a sandwich or just plain. It took everything he had to get it down and keep it down but he did it! 😊👍
You are a beautiful soul and love your sentimental ways ♡
What am I doing wrong? Last year and this year my tomato plants are huge and look healthy, so green, lots of flowers, but almost no fruit. I say almost because a few of the cherry tomatoes have really tiny red tomatoes but they're awful. The skin feels gritty and at first I thought they were dirty, but no they just have rough skin. Don't know the variety. My toddler helped me plant by dumping out my seeds, lol. So everything is a surprise. Everything else I planted has done great. That is until pigweed showed up and took over. If anyone knows a safe way to get rid of that stuff I'd love to know. I spent a couple months trying to pick them but more just came, and they're very pokey. Some sections of my garden have pigweed taller than me. My fall garden will be in a different location.
Will you do a video with your salsa and diced tomato recipes and canning? I do freeze tomatoes when they are ripe and then I make tomato sauce but would love to turn frozen tomatoes into salsa or diced canned tomatoes as well.
Beautiful tomatoes, thank you for sharing
Wow! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙😎
You can take the large okra and use the seeds roasted.
Jill you inspiring me to grow more food to storage.. As now I grow enough to consume daily ..God bless you your journey!
Wow! I live a little further northast so I'm still waiting just a little bit longer.
I have one granddaughter out of 4 that loves to can with me. At 11, she can do as much as me. We spent all last weekend in the kitchen. Picking, slicing, cleaning, stuffing jars, etc. I hope she will remember these times fondly.
Love harvests!!
It’s the open-air kitchen for me! 😍
Have you ever fermented cherry tomatoes? I think that could be interesting.
Also, I am right there with Nathan. I would bring a whole slicer tomato and a baggie of salt and pepper to school as my snack. My classmates thought I was so odd but it was delicious hahaha
Yes I have and they are great with garlic and dill!
Hi Jill , Wonderful talk about caning and life in general , always a pleasure to visit.. God Bless ....
This is your first complete year at new place. It is great to see you all doing a good job. Congrats.
Could you describe what the bread bag is that you are storing the carrots(beets) in?
I'm trying to find a preservation method other than FD'ing.
Search clear plastic bags on ULINE website
Could you please post Jess recipe for dipping sauce or link to her video. I couldn’t locate it. Thanx
💚 Wow, look at that Garden Fresh Harvest! The freeze-dried or dehydrated okra sounds so yummy! Thanks for sharing your Summer Harvest ideas and tips! 💚
Your harvest is amazing! I hope to gain the knowledge to get to that point some day. I am, however, struggling with a few things. Can you do a video on what you use to fertilize your garden and what, if anything, you use to battle pests. Are you an organic gardener? I see a lot of UA-camrs do videos on what to plant and when and even how to plant and how to start seeds, but I can't find any videos on what fertilizers to use and when and how to battle garden pests.
Stay tuned 😉 and yes we do everything organically
Just a tip - cilantro in your window. I’m in tx and that works well here
He ate the biggest Dr wyche of the season .. and he did good 😉 didn't love it , but he did it 😂😂😂
WOW NICE HAUL JILL AND NATHAN, REMINDS OF SUMMERS WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND OUR PRODUCE USE TO LINE UP OUR HALWAY AND WE WOULD WALK BY GRAB A TOMATO AND EAT IT LIKE AN APPLE GOING OUT THE DOOR.
Check out Caribe cilantro. I had a few plants that went through a summer with lots of days over 100 and then a winter that went down to -1. It's pretty much amazing.
Great harvest.
Nate is my brother from another mother back there chain snackin the cherry tomatoes. Yummo!! Prayers for your water and well situation. What an amazing harvest thus far. God is SO good!
I love your videos and cant wait to see you live in August at the Ozark Homestead thing!!!
Such an awesome harvest.😊
Nice video. Just an idea of using a mandolin or some type of slicer gadget just to save you time... especially if you do so much knife work. Time is money!
Miah absolutely ate the tomato lol. He looked like he was in pain 😆
I would like to suggest that you sharpen your knife. I seen you had to start the cut. Happy garden season.
I love Barry's Crazy Cherry..I think they should call them Barry's Crazy Lemon Drops.. They look exactly like lemon drops candy..
Yes Miah did eat a large raw tomato in front of the camera..
I love tomatoes and peppers so so much.. Just praying they don't mess with my arthritis in my body.. Doing lots to counter these effects..
Love you two and your sweet videos! Congrats on your bountiful harvest so far! More to come!
don’t give up hope !! Keep praying for rain 🌧 we were also in a drought no rain for weeks and triple digits in heat 🥵🥵🥵 I was hand watering daily and I have lots of gardens too. I prayed everyday to God I begged for rain and relief and finally !!! On July 4th he answered with 5” of rain ❤️❤️❤️ of course we had destructive winds and a tornado and my gardens are a mess 😩😩 but their thirst is quenched ♥️♥️ I will pray for rain for you 🙏🙏🙏
Your vegetables look amazing!!!! It's beautiful to see this!!! Blessings to you all!!!
I love seeing how yinz proccess and use your harvest! As always, thanks for the inspiration and encouragement 😊
Yes Miah ate the tomato
Shishito peppers are amazing. Use the squizito herb de Provence vs butter and a little bit the black truffle salt no dip needed and way healthier. It's great stuff I love ordering Jens oils & products!
Look on UA-cam there's a guy who made super simple cherry tomato & butter pasta. I can't wait for tomato to come in. Jealous southerners right now! Just waiting here up north 🙄
Jill I couldn't not do unique and tasty varieties but I did do few beds with hybrids. Red is ok but there's nothing like a unique tomato you can't just buy at store.
What an absolute abundance you guys have! Loving your videos! 😍🙌🏻
If use a serrated knife it will make slicing tomatoes easier. I use a steak knife.
I have to ask....where did you get that basket looking rug? I love that & truly need one.
Hi guys👍🏻😊
WOW all those tomatoes 🍅. I didn’t grow any this year. I didn’t really grow much of anything because I have been trying to pack my belongings into storage as I prepare to move from my current place. Lol don’t know yet where I’m going, but somewhere away from my current situation and this heat (FL). But man that harvest looks great 👍. Have a blessed day y’all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕👩🏻🌾🍅
Wow so awesome to see everything! I hope we get to see the canning process for all that! Really want to see the diced tomatoes and sauces, etc.
I’ve got so many cucumbers I don’t even know what to do with all of them. Started making batches of fermented pickles but it’s hard to keep up with everything coming in despite me giving as much as I can away 😅.
You're tomato rich right now! Take those tomatoes and make a caprese salad!
Great haul. I am in north central Texas. This has been the absolute worst garden year I have had in over 20 years. Bad soil, seeds not germinating even my sunflowers, grasshoppers, HOT, bugs I have never seen before. But I am out there every day.
I’m off work so today’s garden day and so far I’ve spent the day setting up the coup so the month old chicks can now live loose with the big chickens. But we have to prioritize, as full time workers away from home. Thank you for sharing your day with us! I’m off to plant another round of sunflowers, zucchini, and prune/tie up tomatoes
Fantastic harvest guy’s so proud of you both 💕 those tomatoes 🍅 look delicious 🌸💕🌸
Barry's cherries tomatoes are awesome! I grew those two years ago and now I know why they call them b a r r y 's crazy cherry tomatoes hahaha, because they grow insanely crazy. I was experimenting that time and not keeping them in cages or staking them I was letting them go wild just fall on the floor kind of deal and several feet away I was growing some steak tomatoes.. the steak tomatoes were getting Infested by caterpillars and the b a r r y 's crazy cherry tomatoes were not even phased they weren't even touched by these caterpillars so something about that cherry tomato the caterpillars did not like and you're right they are so prolific and they are so sweet that year I had given away so many to family and church family and I froze gallons of bags and the freezer and it was awesome. To this day I still remember those tomatoes and those are still one of my favorite cherry tomatoes to grow. We're here in Central Texas and the heat has been so intense that it is quite a challenge let me tell you. Without a greenhouse forget about it to me I think it just seems like it's getting hotter every year? But this year has been a major struggle with the gardens the tomato plants look great but I have not harvested anything but six tomatoes and a handful of teaspoon tomatoes because the temperatures are ranging from 101 to 104°. The heat is doing no good and that's where the frustration comes in to play. That is an awesome Harvest Jill and nate!
I love the Shishito peppers!! I have also dehydrated them and crumble them into quiche, on venison, in a stir fry and it is BOMB!!!! I literally was sad when I ran out of Shishito peppers and I'm growing like 6 plants this year because of that lol
Yes Mia ate a yellow slicer and didn’t love it 🤣
Anyone grow black cherry 🍅 & know when you can harvest them? Great haul! I only container garden.
I just told my husband "I'm shishito pepper rich!". So I completely agree, tomatoes are good but I'm in it for those peppers and some okra too!
Love y’all
I'm a biiiig fan of the freeze dried soups!
Thanks. What kind and where did you get seeds for pepper. Thanks
Jill love your videos. but I think you need to sharpen your paring knife it should go through those tomatoes in one slice you’re making more work for yourself
You're right
Great job guys! Such a wonderful feeling!!
Do you have a video on your fridge stored carrots?
I love that you dressed like a chef and did your own “cooking show” as a kid. How cool is that?!! And now - you have THOUSANDS of us watching and learning from you as you do all kinds of things in your kitchen!!! I absolutely love that! It’s even more amazing that Charlie is going to get to do the same with her grandma!!! What a beautiful legacy!
I’m only growing 4 tomato plants this year, more an issue of preparing the space. I have an atomic sunset Cherry, rapunzel cherry, pineapple slicer tomato and a mystery tomato! It was unlabeled at the nursery in the clearance section, I don’t think it’s a cherry variety but I’m eager to find out!!
stunning produce,perfect xx
I grew all heritage tomatoes and they were good but very low production maybe 3-4 per plant🤪
I feel like you haven't really shown the raised bed garden... hope you'll do a tour of it soon!
I love these videos. but I really would love to know where you get the pottery mugs and that awesome harvesting basket.
You guys are amazing! Such hard workers. I am starting a vegetable CSA and was wondering where you got the information/template for your CSA contract? Thank you in advance!!!
I love this! It makes me to look forward to harvesting my tomatoes when they're ready, it won't be for at least another month up here in SK Canada. I wonder what harvesting 95 tomato plants will look like for me...by far the most I've ever planted! 🤣 I'm hoping to put up enough tomato sauce/diced tomatoes/salsa for the year for our family of 6.
Yes! Jeremiah ate a Dr. Wyche! Do it!! Lol
Yes they did that! There must be something you need. 😉♥️
Can u link ur recipe for ketchup plz!
you need a serrated tomato knife! Game changer!!
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How does your hubby work all day and then still do all he does on your farm???
You guys have so much beautiful produce! What are you doing about bugs??? Love your channel!
Gosh THAT OKRA 👍LOOKS FANTASTIC YUM 😋👌
YES HE DID DO IT I WATCH IT WAS SO FUNNYYYYYYYY
BLTs are delicious!
How do you store your ketchup for use after you open the can? Do you have old bottles you use?
Miah did eat the tomato 🤣
hugs from pam and john way to go keep it coming on video
👍🏻💚🍅🌶🥒🥒🧄 Awesome
Do you have any canning/food preservation resources you recommend? I am a total newbie and I’m struggling to just dive in and do it. It’s so daunting!
Yes! Jeremiah ate a whole Dr. Wyche's bc people sent money in for the freeze drier!
What would we pay for y'all to see Jill eat a tomato?!?
I would be munching as I would be working on the 🍅
He did a huge tomato. He loves salsa though.
Yes, JEremiah ate a large either Kellogg's breakfast or Dr. Wyche tomato. And even after that, he is still not a fan, lol
Feel u Jill love to grow tomatoes for salsa and sauce could care less to eat that baby on a sandwich. My heart waits for good cucumber