My mother-in-law was a young bride when the great depression hit, but like you, gardening was her passion. She grew enough food to feed her family and anyone who was in need of a meal. She saved seeds and fed people up until she died at 95 years. Evey year when she planted her Garden, she designated the first 5 plants as her seed plant. The fruit was left on the vine until the seeds were ready to harvest. This was the purest strain of seeds that dated back to. The depression anthe finest vegetable I have ever eaten.
When I heard your talking, for once I was not fear. I felt saving seeds was a way to help God's creation. Last year I tried and was not successful but I will try again this year.
I want you to know that a few years ago, I was paralyzed in fear. My husband started prepping for a survival situation. I was very unaware of how corrupt our systems were and when the veil of ignorance was lifted I was paralyzed. When I found your channel a few years ago, I was grasping at straws trying to figure out how to survive a catastrophe. Your words of comfort, compassion, and wisdom touched my heart in such a way that brought me peace. And I have been watching ever since. I tend to get lost in the what ifs and the what could be, but your words - What can I do right now? What is the next step in front of me? - that brought me back to a level- headed baseline. You’ve said those words before and it’s something I say to myself often to calm my heart. This year, my focus is saving seeds as well. Thank you, Jess, for always bringing truth but also comfort in times of stress. All we can do is do what we can to thrive. Thank you for your honesty, authenticity, and showing us what we can do RIGHT NOW, and being a word of comfort and wisdom in a time of such uncertainty. ❤
Sometimes we just need a reminder...My mother turned me onto organic gardening when I was a young child in the 1960s--fast forward to 1990 and she started a compost pile in MY backyard that is still in use/productive today! At the same time, she also used the back half of my yard as 'her' vegetable garden plot to share food and growing knowledge/inspiration with me (and SO many others)--our yards actually connect...She is now 92 years young, and I asked her a few years ago what she wanted her legacy to be. Her answer: my heirloom bean seeds! She finally passed the baton to me 3 years ago, so I now can carry on her legacy. Thank you Jess--I have been nervous about taking on such a responsibility, but in a split second, your words have resonated and I am up to the challenge! Happy Seed Saving everyone!
I can’t tell you the number of UA-cam channels I have stopped following because of fear-mongering. Thank you for being the voice of encouragement, not fear❤
I feel the same too. Have to save the tomatoes 😅 I feel like it’s blasphemy to grow gmo tomatoes at home honestly. If I wanted tomatoes that taste like disappointment, I’d go get some from the store.
The reason why you don’t get that many negative comments is because exactly what you said. Hope over fear. You are knowledgeable and you do your work prior to speaking and what you don’t know. You say I don’t know. Authentic and true as you said. We listen carefully to what you say. Thank you for being you!
My 2020 motto still serves me - blessed, not stressed; prepared, not scared. Being reactive is easy. Being thoughtful and educating ourselves and taking whatever next right step - that's the key to sanity and calm. I do have concern about cross-pollination with things I don't want so I'm going to be more mindful of saving seeds and using bags this year. Thank you, as always, for being authentic!
I get it Jess. I do ❤ I feel the same way. It’s just wisdom. Saving seeds bc the world seems crazy is wisdom. Doesn’t mean I’m scared and frantic and running around screaming the sky is falling. Just means we’re observing and thinking “huh, that might not be good, I’m going to start saving seeds just in case”. And we continue to go about enjoying life and being full of joy. But at the same time, it would be foolish not to save seeds. We’re just not being foolish. Doesn’t mean we’re panicking and doing things out of fear.
I’ve been “prepared” for most of my adult life (I think I still have some TP from Y2K 😁). My brother is 4 years older than me and has started to panic about not being ready enough. I told him no one is completely prepared. If the SHTF tomorrow it’s going to hurt but you can be prepared to the point it won’t hurt as much. Trust in God but have an extra can of beans on hand (and a way to grow more).
That's funny about the TP. I had 2 Costco packages of toilet paper in the attic from Y2K (only thing I stored). When the pandemic hit I never had to source T.P. therefor making more available for others.@@mkc0005
You are NOT spreading fear Jess you are simply sharing knowledge !! And doing a bang up job of it girl !!!!!! Preach girl preach, tell everyone you know !!!
Found some zinnia seeds my Grandpa saved in 1998 before he passed. They were in a plastic ice cream tub in the summer kitchen (protected). We planted them first in 2007 and save seeds every year. Gave out some to family. Planting them again this year. Every year, fewer colors, now mostly pink.
We live in an area of the country where the potential of severe winter weather (power outages and temporary isolation) are a given. We do not fear that... we PREPARE for that. This is no different. No different than canning and freezing food to hold us to the next garden season.... 150 years ago this was just what farm people did. We can do it too... farm or not.
Your greenhouse talks are my church. Thank you for being brave enough to allow a power greater than all of us to flow through you. God bless and namaste.
Synchronicity man. Today when I got home from work there was a package from Will, 2 packets of seeds, seeds that were saved by riding ahead of the army. Right after I opened that package I went upstairs and sat down and to watch UA-cam and there you are sharing what you did. Now here I am delighted in the synchronicity of life. ❤
I LOVE "prepper/conspiracy" Jess. I've adored you now for 4 years and am so grateful for you and the new freedom you've found in authentically and unapologetically speaking truth regardless of where you thing they'll land. 💚
I’m very cognizant of the fact that my tiny garden will likely not grow enough food to feed my family if anything big were to happen. But I’m learning and doing something. Anything that makes me more survivable and that gives me peace. In our last residence, we could not have a garden. Being able to even try in itself is the comfort.
The first step is to realize that your tiny garden will likely not grow enough food to feed your family, if anything big were to happen. The second step is to remedy that situation (if you are worried about it), by buying foods in bulk, as much as your budget allows, and preserve it! We grow a couple of big gardens, and likely have most of what we could eat if catastrophe hits, but I STILL have been buying extra food from farmers' markets and sales, and preserving it for such an emergency. Don't get overwhelmed, slow and steady is better than whirlwind and frazzled, with nothing preserved, and feeling paralyzed. Get going, everybody! You don't need huge gardens to be prepared. Pressure can, water bath can, steam can, freeze, dehydrate, freeze dry, or BUY freeze dried cans of food. I see the freeze dried foods on clearance late at night on Amazon, and they last 25 years. Don't live in fear, just confidence.
I think the great thing is just starting, and doing it where the stakes aren’t high. You are learning, but not in a potentially life threatening environment. I’m enjoying the freedom we have to grow our own food.
Last year was the first year I saved seeds. IM SO EXCITED!!! I have tomatoes that germinated at 80%, jalapeños at 60% so far, and my Sunflowers!! It was a thrill to see seeds germinate last year, now it’s like okay now I get to be a story teller!! Obviously it’s little early for my okra, zucchini, squash, watermelon. However I’m pretty sure I did this right! Look out future grandchildren, you will have grandma Georgia’s seeds!!! I’m not scared.
I’ve been saving seeds for the last 4 years, just for the joy of sharing them with others. I got a vacuum sealer for Christmas this year so I’m considering sealing some in a bag and freezing them. I love the idea of having a seed vault and opening it in 50-100 years to see if there are any that don’t exist anymore at that point, that I could then bring back. ❤
Loved it too and gave it to lots of people. What a powerful message it brings.🤗 Thank you Jess ... Will definitely save more than just enough seed for myself this year
“What is your next step today! Where you are at right now!!” SO GOOD! SO GOOD! Thank you for your wisdom and insight and views! You truly are a blessing to the gardening world!! Please walk us along in this seed saving process, it is so helpful to watch and learn!
Don't worry. Nature always finds a way. Wild populations of anything always revert back to what works best with the surrounding environment. She knows what she's doing
I've been thinking of saving seeds lately. But you've inspired me to really do it this fall. Thanks. I've always hoped greed wouldn't win, but the monopolies just keep growing. So, for the sake of all our children, people need to become selfsaficent. This channel is very important to future better world. Thanks for everything you do. 👏 👏 👏 👏 ❤
Agreed - I will continue to honor the past generations and Indigenous cultures who worked incredibly hard to save the genetics of the heirlooms seeds. And I will also make this year for personal seed saving as well. Love this outlook
Over the past 8 years, I have transitioned to heirloom seeds only. The reason being that I find saving seeds is fun, challenging, and it helps to acclimate varieties to my colder climate. Yes, I guess you could say I have a seed bank.😊 After watching this, I will step it up and add the barrier bags. That is a great idea now that things have changed.
Dear Jess, Thank you for this call to save seeds, and especially to choose hope over fear. I'm looking at the handful of kinds of flower seeds that I saved last year, and I bought the tulle baggies last year to save my alpine strawberries from critters, now I'm ready to save seeds from many more plants this year. Thank you for all that you do!
Another good way to easily save varieties if you have the space is to remember that peppers are perennials, so you can overwinter the same plant and be sure it will produce the same fruit. And you can propagate them from cuttings, along with many other plants! Seed saving will work better for super long term, of course, but options are always good.
Keep preaching Jess. There are ABSOLUTELY those who see you..hear you…and cheer you on for saying what most of us with NO audience want to hear thank you. Truly.
= “Humanity and the Tomato” = -A new broadening of the topic of concern. You are correct .. that is too much. What you’re doing right this very minute is reading this and gardening or listening to this and gardening. That’s the most important thing. We are so fortunate that you share with us, that’s all I can say. CARRY ON. … and that little bag keeps the worms out, too.
How timely is this video…? I purchased a book, “Seed to Seed” earlier this year, not because I know anything about GMO seeds nor do I have your experience ( I am starting my 4th year) but because saving my own seeds is one step closer to self sustainability. I absolutely love gardening. I wish I would have discovered this passion earlier in my life (I am now just 61) the dreams of where I could be just blow my mind. But I accept your challenge and will save my seeds and put them in the bottom of my freezer and “if” anything happens my seeds will be moved someplace safe. Thank you for this video❤❤❤
Faith over fear but be aware and educated! The sheer number of people I have read who are chomping at the bit to grow those GMO seeds is absolutely scary. Mostly because I feel to my soul those are the same people who don't care about cross pollination and what effect that has. My own concerns are, this is ONE GMO seed, more will follow. Thank you for speaking up and thank you for being passionate. I look forward to seeing your seed saving videos!
I 1000% agree. In some of the garden Forums ive been seeing a lot of people talking about Crossing this and disturbing the seeds, My worry is this GMO wont be regulated like the others are, so it could get spread and out of control quickly. And with not knowing how this could affect other varieties. 5-10 years from now could be a lot worse. I do have some hope, I'm seeing more and more countries starting to Ban the growing and sale of GMOS, so far 28, after research is starting to show, they aren't that good for us, and unfortunately some are showing health issues are starting to pop up.
I am very confused. What purpose does a GMO anything serve? At what point are we going to collectively understand that we already have the food we need in the condition we need it? Jess, you grow a beautiful garden with real, healthy, nutritious food! It’s real and honourable and sustainable. We need to stop messing with our future food and focus on the marvellous gifts we have! Thank you Jess, for all you do and all you represent in this world! 🤗🤗🤗
EVERYTHING you said is True! Thank you for your courage from the dangers that are out there! You re NOT walking this path alone! So many of us are with you! March ON! Love your Channel! 🥰🙏
Wow, Jess, your words on hope was the most profound thing I've heard in a long time. Thank you so much for your balanced, rational, and educated voice of reason. Because this is a terrifying world. ❤️
I’m screaming!!!😂 plant condoms!!!! Hahaha I will forever call them that! And I have already started grabbing and saving some of those because I had a feeling this year was the year to start learning to save seed. Also purchased the book “Seed to Seed”! A great guidebook!
Thank-you for speaking out about everything going on. Some people choose to pretend everything is okay out of fear. I'm like you, I'm not fearful because I am preparing for my family's future. If people wouldn't have grown and raised their own food in the great depression, they wouldn't have survived. If people don't want to hear what's going on and prepare, they should avoid those topics. Don't expect others to avoid it because of your fear!
Hey! I'm finally head of Jess on a gardening task! I created 2 seed banks and placed them for future use. I did it in 2020, after our Michigan governor banned stores from selling SEEDS. And yes, she did - I was in Walmart and witnessed employees wheeling a huge seed display into the garden center, then taping it off with caution tape. I took pics and asked what was going on. Workers told me they were doing it "under orders of the governor " BTW: i had 2 friends who had commercial greenhouses whose sales were ready, but the governor banned them taking phone or internet orders then be no contact placement in the buyers trunks. Yet the big box stores, pot shops, convenient stores were "essential " So call me Miss Scarlet, but I'll never let a politician come between me and SEEDS again!
I have been concerned about food security and seed storage for years. I sprouted seeds recently that I saved from 2017. Thanks for the enlightenment and encouragement.
My first response when this story originally broke was “it seems like a slippery slope to me”. In and of itself not alarming but a peek behind the “future curtain” is what bothers me. It just seems unnecessary 🤷🏻♀️
Just bought bags immediately after watching this video. Thanks for the solid reminder Jess! I too have gotten lax with the availability of seeds- but my dad has always said, “Better to not need it and have it, than to need it and not have it.” Also, 100% this is a threat to us and shouldn’t be taken lightly. We don’t know when they will pull the trigger on something bigger. Also… it’s your channel. Anyone contradicting you in spite or pride is sitting behind the keyboard for a reason! Thanks again for what you share and your time to do it. ❤
Exactly how I feel! Ive been buying extra seeds now and planning to save more of my own seeds this year too! I'll do what I can to and try not to fear what I can't control. Thank you for sharing Exactly how many of us feel and sharing how we can prepare.
Thank you Jessica again for using your platform for good. I see your love and light. I love that you show no shame. I believe that “ staying where your feet are at and always 10 toes deep in your faith” is the only way to live a fulfilling life. A lesson learned on the daily. Thank you for being you and as always Be Blessed 🙏❤️
You’re a gem . Never apologize for the frightening topic of saving heirloom seeds. It is a frightening topic. These are frightening times. The most frightening element is just how many people have no idea of the impending doom at this moment. You’re doing a great thing. It’s critical that people wake up and act now. You’re brave and knowledgeable. Knowledge is power. Thank you for all you do !!
Yes! Seed ark's are necessary. I've been saving seeds for myself, and seeds for others. Why not? It's fun, it saves money, and it also gives you peace of mind.
I have gardened my entire life with exception of moves but I am having health issues and having to cut back on my gardening. That being said I am going to try and set up more raised garden and I want to seed save which is new to me. Thank you for all you do to encourage people to feed their families as healthy as possible. It is a challenge with people having to have a two income family which is so sad. Just love you sister!!! 🙏♥️
Doing it. Been doing it. It got so bad with the blue lakes seeds we were buying, i sought out the best plants one year and just saved the seeds. Dedicating a few plants to save every year. Last yr my helpful hubby picked some of the beans at prime , was so proud of himself when he announced he had given them to our neighbor to enjoy. Glad i already had some tucked away. 😅
I haven't gotten thru the entire video yet, but wanted to say THANKS!. This talk resonated with me today on a few different levels....and I really needed to hear it. Often I think a video isn't what i want or need to hear, and I'm often wrong. Again, as always, thanks for your content....and your truth!
I love you and I love this response so much 🥰🥰 Ngl- I got a little teary-eyed thinking about 1000 people choosing to protect the seeds ahead of potential threat. I've been saving seeds for years and have used those little mesh bags to prevent cross-pollination in my tomatoes since I saw your seed saving video years ago. You have been such an incredible inspiration in my life - so much so that I quit my gov job to get a bachelor's degree in sustainable food and farming and start teaching others how to grow their own food. Thank you so much for being such a light in this world! ❤
Every time I watch your videos there is a takeaway…. I need to hear “hope over fear” today. Not necessarily for the same topic but in general. Thank you. Thanks for sharing this as well. Learned a lot.
The seed saving story from your area is beautifully sentimental and empowering❤seed saving from a place of empowerment and love of the plants🙏Ty for sharing!
Thank you, Jess for your wisdom and reminder to come up with solutions to situations that seem out of our control. I am going to save seeds this year too. I turned 75 last year so am not as spry as I used to be. I am redesigning my garden to all raised beds. I had gotten depressed thinking I had to give up gardening. It brings me such joy and satisfaction, I came up with my own solution. The good Lord provided a positive, hard working, delightful young man to help in my garden. God always provides! Love from Mississippi
Jess I love your approach and delivery. I’m usually the quite student in your class room, lol Just want to applaud you at how well you communicate your experiences in homesteading❤
Great video! Our local paper had an article about a man who saves seeds and is being honored by a preservation group in Davenport, Iowa. His business is called Sand Hill Preservation Center. After reading the article I determined I was going to start saving seeds this year. So glad you talked about this and I am going to try it with the party bags! Thanks!!
Your seed saving videos over the years have empowered me to save a lot of seeds. I eventually got a book on it too. I've listened to various podcasts such as ones from Joe Gardener podcast on the subject. Amazing power to save seeds! I Have 4-5 types of seeds dried, ready to be packaged from last year on my bookshelf. The mesh bags go a long way and are so easy to use. As I'm sowing seeds, I make note of what packs are low and need to be saved. I have 5 thing so far that I need to save!
I just love this so much. I think keeping these varieties that have passed down from hand to hand for so long is culturally, environmentally, and ecologically important. Look forward to any seed saving videos in the future and will look for the past one.
I've been saving seeds for years. I appreciate your staying on top of the GMO issue entering the environment. Given the legal history with SEED Control in the Commercial Ag environment for profit & Control for sake, I believe that it is essential that we all do what we can to save as many varieties of seed as we can. More plant varieties have become EXTINCT than we currently still have due to many of the issues you have mentioned in this video. I appreciate your attempt at keeping a level head without panic, however, I echo a sense of urgency that many other seed savers have stated. Once the diversity is gone, it will be lost forever. Never to be regained. Thank you, Jessica. I bless you once again for your willingness to share the hard truths. May God continue to bless you with abundance in all things.
Thank you Jess for addressing the GMO dilema. I so agree with your thoughts on those new GMO purple tomato seeds. My first reaction was to fall into the various rabbit holes for long term consequences. Even after reading and researching any articles on these seeds, I am totally unswayed as to their supposed benefits. I trust that we home gardeners and homesteaders are as informed and wise in our decisions to continue saving or purchasing tried and true seed varieties from those reputable companies we all trust, and swap among communities of like-minded gardeners. Seeds are sacred. I have always believed this, and I treat my small gardens as a mini temple.
Good chat. There is comfort in doing something, anything, no matter how small, that helps to ensure ones future. And saving seeds is one of those things. Even if it is just one thing you save seeds on, you just never know how far that one seed can go, if needed. I understand why it would be difficult to chat about this topic but you did well Jess! It is so easy to go down the negative road but much harder to stay positive and do something to give one hope. Good job on this!
I want to like this several times. You are such a fantastic educator! I already save lettuce herb and Asian greens. I also think this topic is important. I will now be saving seed from my tomatoes eggplants and chillies. Keep up the great work. We need your voice. Together we are better and stronger. My children and grandchildren will be eating heirloom fruit and veg. I commit to that. And we will be a family that in our small urban yard saves and shares seed. So much power and future in that. From my different spiritual beliefs to yours…I bless you and yours 🌻🌈🌱☀️🌦️🌧️🍅
Tons of my tomato babies sproted this morning and i was just looking at and appreciating them and thinking to myself that this year and beyond more than ever my seed saving needs to be a priority ❤
I can feel your passion and I love it. I am the same I don't know how every one will respond. But when you have a passion and a feeling like you need to warn people I feel like that's also from the Lord. It says to cast our cares upon him. That's what I feel don't be worried be prepared! ❤ Thanks for sharing there are sometimes I watch your stuff and think that's exactly they way I feel and I'm glad I'm not the only one.
You are so on point. When my state threatened to limit my garden space on my private property, my yard y'all to 8x8....I didnt fear, I just said aloud, i will turn my entire yard into a garden then, and I am still working on it but its mostly growing space and play area. Get going y'all, have no fear like the bible says 365 times. God bless!
What? Your state threatened this?? Are you sure it wasn’t your HMO or perhaps just your municipality due to zoning laws? I can’t imagine an entire state trying to ban the entire home gardening industry!
I'm in my 50s and planning to try to grow some veggies this year. We had a garden growing up and my mom canned things when I was young. But as soon as the family had enough of an income, she stopped and relied on the grocery store instead. It was something she never enjoyed and so didn't really pass any knowledge on to me or my siblings. So I'm grateful for your knowledge and your willingness to share what you have learned. When the pandemic first started, I had just joined a CSA an got a bagful of vegetables each week that I had to figure out what to do with. I ate so many things I had never tried before and found some favorites from when I was a kid. I even started cooking more and more, I used to just heat up already prepared meals from the frozen section. And once I discovered roasting vegetables, I can't go back now! Anyway, thank you for your videos. You have inspired me to try to grow my own things this year. I'm in a colder climate than you are but I'll give it my best go. Bless you!
The same scorched earth policy was employed here in South Africa. I am with you on saving seeds for difficult times. Thanks for the tip of protecting against cross pollination by using organza bags. I am getting some larger organza bags for my squash/melon family plants to protect them from fruit flies. I haven't harvested a single spaghetti squash or courgette. The fruit get stung even before they are pollinated. Thanks
I already have many yards of white tulle that I use for insect cover. You can cut a large square of this and tie it around a blossom. I am saving seeds from my King of the North peppers this year as they grow phenomenal for me. Last year I saved my favorite cucumber and squash seeds. Year before I saved my favorite cherry tomato seeds. I only had a few seeds left and wnen I tried to buy more, I couldn't find them. That was a shocker for me. I guess I'll be saving more tomato seeds this year. Thanks Jess...for everything.
Faith over fear, thank you for your words of wisdom Jess in a time where fear can and does EASILY run rampant. Your channel brings me comfort even in my small apartment with the tiniest porch for tower gardening. Thank you!!! ❤
Jess, you are such a blessing! I shared this video with three of my family members just because of your monologue on Hope versus hopelessness! You are very well spoken and offer such practical wisdom! Thank you so much for this video!
“I SPEAK FOR THE SEEDS!” You are so full of wisdom Jess, I get so alarmed about gmo seeds and I just want to say thank you for this video. We are going to save seeds in our little garden community! I’m one of those who grows a ton of different varieties of tomatoes too! ❤️ You could say I’m a “variety junkie” haha it’s the spice of life. The beauty that God created. 🌟
Wow! After watching your vlog about the GMO tomato, I decided I needed to be more intentional about saving seeds from different varieties of heirloom vegetables. Seeing this vlog just reinforces that decision. Thank you, Jess!
This is so simple yet also very wise. Arm ourselves with information… and seeds! Happy gardening everyone! PS - off to watch the older video because I’ve never saved tomato seeds. Time to learn.
YES YES YES!! GO JESS! I had the same thoughts regarding seed saving after hearing about the GMO tomato plants. I haven't saved seeds before from my garden so this will be my first year and I look forward to all your future content around this issue! You are such a bright light and help to keep me grounded in my thoughts when I feel overwhelmed too. Thanks for all you do :)
You always do a great job of giving hope and not fear. I feel more empowered now to save more seeds this year. Not because I'm scared but because I am excited! Also great knowing the seeds will be locally adapted to my garden and potentially grow better every year. We have a great organization up here in Canada called Seeds of Diversity - they are people protecting the peoples seed, that's how I found my first seed swap :)
God is good!!! I was at a surplus store the other day and they have bolts of Towle fabric for $2 for the whole bolt... I thought, you don't need that, but I had a nudge that I did need it... so I bought it ❤❤ I can make a ton of those little bags for $2 + some thread cost...😊
I pulled a Jess today and dug up sunflower sprouts and a pumpkin sprout and brought them in my house to put under my grow lights. I know we'll get another freeze in NE Texas and don't want them to die.
It's a must in my little garden lol my front flower bed is covered in snapdragon seedlings, but they'll survive a frost if they're big enough and these 80° days we've been having will have them growing plenty big enough.
I really enjoy watching your videos. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but I do save bulk seeds (1lb+). I freeze them all and change them out, every 3-4 years. I guess I'm considered a seed hoarder. Like a commentor said, paraphrasing, "I stopped following other UA-camrs, because of fear mongering." Thank you, Miss Jess. Happy homesteading! 🙏🏻❤️
I have a whole tub of apple trees growing from seeds I stratified in the fridge this winter from apples we ate. I realize they will probably not come true ti type but that is how some new varieties come about. They fill me with hope of cider to come and I feel like John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed).
I so wholeheartedly agree Jess. I've been building my seed bank for a few years now and I've got a good hefty box of them so far. I will certainly continue the obsession!
You are so even keeled. I just turned 60 but want to be like you when I finally grow up.
Me too :-) (mid 50's today)
Agree, turning 60 this summer. Jess gives me hope and it is a comfort to do something.
I'll be 63 soon and I say that all the time! I wanna be like Jess when I grow up 😊
58 and trying hard to be more like Jess!
Same
My mother-in-law was a young bride when the great depression hit, but like you, gardening was her passion. She grew enough food to feed her family and anyone who was in need of a meal. She saved seeds and fed people up until she died at 95 years. Evey year when she planted her
Garden, she designated the first 5 plants as her seed plant. The fruit was left on the vine until the seeds were ready to harvest. This was the purest strain of seeds that dated back to. The depression anthe finest vegetable I have ever eaten.
I love everything about this comment.🌱🪴🌾🫘🫙
I love that! I don’t have a big enough garden to do 5 plants but maybe I can do 1 of each variety !
Has someone continued growing the seeds she saved? That's a great family history story. =)
I would love to see this story turned into a movie.
When I heard your talking, for once I was not fear. I felt saving seeds was a way to help God's creation. Last year I tried and was not successful but I will try again this year.
I want you to know that a few years ago, I was paralyzed in fear. My husband started prepping for a survival situation. I was very unaware of how corrupt our systems were and when the veil of ignorance was lifted I was paralyzed. When I found your channel a few years ago, I was grasping at straws trying to figure out how to survive a catastrophe. Your words of comfort, compassion, and wisdom touched my heart in such a way that brought me peace. And I have been watching ever since. I tend to get lost in the what ifs and the what could be, but your words -
What can I do right now? What is the next step in front of me? - that brought me back to a level- headed baseline. You’ve said those words before and it’s something I say to myself often to calm my heart. This year, my focus is saving seeds as well. Thank you, Jess, for always bringing truth but also comfort in times of stress. All we can do is do what we can to thrive. Thank you for your honesty, authenticity, and showing us what we can do RIGHT NOW, and being a word of comfort and wisdom in a time of such uncertainty. ❤
I 100% agree with everything you just said!❤
@@cortneyh8437 you are so right and I wish you the best from the bottom of my heart ❤
Amen!!!🙏
AMEN
Yes!!! Times of stress and not good day 😢my gosh such a beautiful Jess!!! ❤
Sometimes we just need a reminder...My mother turned me onto organic gardening when I was a young child in the 1960s--fast forward to 1990 and she started a compost pile in MY backyard that is still in use/productive today! At the same time, she also used the back half of my yard as 'her' vegetable garden plot to share food and growing knowledge/inspiration with me (and SO many others)--our yards actually connect...She is now 92 years young, and I asked her a few years ago what she wanted her legacy to be. Her answer: my heirloom bean seeds! She finally passed the baton to me 3 years ago, so I now can carry on her legacy. Thank you Jess--I have been nervous about taking on such a responsibility, but in a split second, your words have resonated and I am up to the challenge! Happy Seed Saving everyone!
Wow that is so cool!! Happy growing!!! Now and years to come 😃😃
I can’t tell you the number of UA-cam channels I have stopped following because of fear-mongering. Thank you for being the voice of encouragement, not fear❤
Ditto'd!
This is fear mongering! She has been doing this since the pandemic!
Me too. Ones I used to watch I quit because of the gloom, doom and sensationalism titles.
4:54 - "for, like, humanity and tomatoes as a whole." LOL Jess, I feel the same about tomatoes.
I feel the same too. Have to save the tomatoes 😅 I feel like it’s blasphemy to grow gmo tomatoes at home honestly. If I wanted tomatoes that taste like disappointment, I’d go get some from the store.
The reason why you don’t get that many negative comments is because exactly what you said. Hope over fear.
You are knowledgeable and you do your work prior to speaking and what you don’t know. You say I don’t know. Authentic and true as you said. We listen carefully to what you say. Thank you for being you!
My 2020 motto still serves me - blessed, not stressed; prepared, not scared. Being reactive is easy. Being thoughtful and educating ourselves and taking whatever next right step - that's the key to sanity and calm. I do have concern about cross-pollination with things I don't want so I'm going to be more mindful of saving seeds and using bags this year. Thank you, as always, for being authentic!
I get it Jess. I do ❤
I feel the same way. It’s just wisdom. Saving seeds bc the world seems crazy is wisdom. Doesn’t mean I’m scared and frantic and running around screaming the sky is falling. Just means we’re observing and thinking “huh, that might not be good, I’m going to start saving seeds just in case”. And we continue to go about enjoying life and being full of joy.
But at the same time, it would be foolish not to save seeds.
We’re just not being foolish. Doesn’t mean we’re panicking and doing things out of fear.
I’ve been “prepared” for most of my adult life (I think I still have some TP from Y2K 😁). My brother is 4 years older than me and has started to panic about not being ready enough. I told him no one is completely prepared. If the SHTF tomorrow it’s going to hurt but you can be prepared to the point it won’t hurt as much. Trust in God but have an extra can of beans on hand (and a way to grow more).
That's funny about the TP. I had 2 Costco packages of toilet paper in the attic from Y2K (only thing I stored). When the pandemic hit I never had to source T.P. therefor making more available for others.@@mkc0005
You are NOT spreading fear Jess you are simply sharing knowledge !! And doing a bang up job of it girl !!!!!! Preach girl preach, tell everyone you know !!!
Found some zinnia seeds my Grandpa saved in 1998 before he passed. They were in a plastic ice cream tub in the summer kitchen (protected). We planted them first in 2007 and save seeds every year. Gave out some to family. Planting them again this year. Every year, fewer colors, now mostly pink.
We live in an area of the country where the potential of severe winter weather (power outages and temporary isolation) are a given. We do not fear that... we PREPARE for that. This is no different. No different than canning and freezing food to hold us to the next garden season.... 150 years ago this was just what farm people did. We can do it too... farm or not.
Agree 100%
Well said!!!
Your greenhouse talks are my church.
Thank you for being brave enough to allow a power greater than all of us to flow through you.
God bless and namaste.
Synchronicity man. Today when I got home from work there was a package from Will, 2 packets of seeds, seeds that were saved by riding ahead of the army. Right after I opened that package I went upstairs and sat down and to watch UA-cam and there you are sharing what you did. Now here I am delighted in the synchronicity of life. ❤
I love this! Does this person sell these seeds? I would absolutely love to grow and continue seeds with such a powerful story behind them!
I think this is going to land where it’s gonna land and fall on the ears that it needs to fall on. Some of us needed the nudge! Thank you, Jess!
Just like Ryan Hall says, "Don't be scared, be prepared." ❤
I LOVE "prepper/conspiracy" Jess. I've adored you now for 4 years and am so grateful for you and the new freedom you've found in authentically and unapologetically speaking truth regardless of where you thing they'll land. 💚
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I’m very cognizant of the fact that my tiny garden will likely not grow enough food to feed my family if anything big were to happen.
But I’m learning and doing something. Anything that makes me more survivable and that gives me peace.
In our last residence, we could not have a garden. Being able to even try in itself is the comfort.
The first step is to realize that your tiny garden will likely not grow enough food to feed your family, if anything big were to happen. The second step is to remedy that situation (if you are worried about it), by buying foods in bulk, as much as your budget allows, and preserve it! We grow a couple of big gardens, and likely have most of what we could eat if catastrophe hits, but I STILL have been buying extra food from farmers' markets and sales, and preserving it for such an emergency. Don't get overwhelmed, slow and steady is better than whirlwind and frazzled, with nothing preserved, and feeling paralyzed. Get going, everybody! You don't need huge gardens to be prepared. Pressure can, water bath can, steam can, freeze, dehydrate, freeze dry, or BUY freeze dried cans of food. I see the freeze dried foods on clearance late at night on Amazon, and they last 25 years. Don't live in fear, just confidence.
I think the great thing is just starting, and doing it where the stakes aren’t high. You are learning, but not in a potentially life threatening environment. I’m enjoying the freedom we have to grow our own food.
@@sassyherbgardener7154I have planted a herb medical garden. Just buying medical herbs can put you in the poor house haha
Thanks for sharing your pov! I share you pov and you are so much more articulate than I am ! Thank Goodness someone is 🙏🏻👍🏻🫣
Learning what not to do is what I’ve gained the most. Like don’t grow food you won’t eat. Ha! Learning is the most important thing!!!
Last year was the first year I saved seeds. IM SO EXCITED!!! I have tomatoes that germinated at 80%, jalapeños at 60% so far, and my Sunflowers!! It was a thrill to see seeds germinate last year, now it’s like okay now I get to be a story teller!! Obviously it’s little early for my okra, zucchini, squash, watermelon. However I’m pretty sure I did this right! Look out future grandchildren, you will have grandma Georgia’s seeds!!! I’m not scared.
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SO PROUD OF YOU STRANGER
I’ve been saving seeds for the last 4 years, just for the joy of sharing them with others. I got a vacuum sealer for Christmas this year so I’m considering sealing some in a bag and freezing them. I love the idea of having a seed vault and opening it in 50-100 years to see if there are any that don’t exist anymore at that point, that I could then bring back. ❤
I LOVED the book Braiding Sweetgrass!💗 I have never heard anyone else talk about it since I read it. Made me smile 😊
Same! Beautiful book. I gave my copy to a coworker.
It’s one of my favorite books 🫶🏻
It's fantastic! I'm so glad she mentioned it
Loved it too and gave it to lots of people. What a powerful message it brings.🤗
Thank you Jess ... Will definitely save more than just enough seed for myself this year
It's a good book
“What is your next step today! Where you are at right now!!”
SO GOOD! SO GOOD! Thank you for your wisdom and insight and views! You truly are a blessing to the gardening world!!
Please walk us along in this seed saving process, it is so helpful to watch and learn!
Don't worry. Nature always finds a way. Wild populations of anything always revert back to what works best with the surrounding environment. She knows what she's doing
I've been thinking of saving seeds lately. But you've inspired me to really do it this fall. Thanks. I've always hoped greed wouldn't win, but the monopolies just keep growing. So, for the sake of all our children, people need to become selfsaficent. This channel is very important to future better world. Thanks for everything you do. 👏 👏 👏 👏 ❤
Agreed - I will continue to honor the past generations and Indigenous cultures who worked incredibly hard to save the genetics of the heirlooms seeds. And I will also make this year for personal seed saving as well. Love this outlook
Over the past 8 years, I have transitioned to heirloom seeds only. The reason being that I find saving seeds is fun, challenging, and it helps to acclimate varieties to my colder climate.
Yes, I guess you could say I have a seed bank.😊
After watching this, I will step it up and add the barrier bags. That is a great idea now that things have changed.
Dear Jess, Thank you for this call to save seeds, and especially to choose hope over fear. I'm looking at the handful of kinds of flower seeds that I saved last year, and I bought the tulle baggies last year to save my alpine strawberries from critters, now I'm ready to save seeds from many more plants this year. Thank you for all that you do!
Another good way to easily save varieties if you have the space is to remember that peppers are perennials, so you can overwinter the same plant and be sure it will produce the same fruit. And you can propagate them from cuttings, along with many other plants! Seed saving will work better for super long term, of course, but options are always good.
Keep preaching Jess. There are ABSOLUTELY those who see you..hear you…and cheer you on for saying what most of us with NO audience want to hear thank you. Truly.
= “Humanity and the Tomato” =
-A new broadening of the topic of concern. You are correct .. that is too much. What you’re doing right this very minute is reading this and gardening or listening to this and gardening. That’s the most important thing. We are so fortunate that you share with us, that’s all I can say. CARRY ON.
… and that little bag keeps the worms out, too.
How timely is this video…? I purchased a book, “Seed to Seed” earlier this year, not because I know anything about GMO seeds nor do I have your experience ( I am starting my 4th year) but because saving my own seeds is one step closer to self sustainability. I absolutely love gardening. I wish I would have discovered this passion earlier in my life (I am now just 61) the dreams of where I could be just blow my mind. But I accept your challenge and will save my seeds and put them in the bottom of my freezer and “if” anything happens my seeds will be moved someplace safe. Thank you for this video❤❤❤
Faith over fear but be aware and educated! The sheer number of people I have read who are chomping at the bit to grow those GMO seeds is absolutely scary. Mostly because I feel to my soul those are the same people who don't care about cross pollination and what effect that has. My own concerns are, this is ONE GMO seed, more will follow. Thank you for speaking up and thank you for being passionate. I look forward to seeing your seed saving videos!
I 1000% agree. In some of the garden Forums ive been seeing a lot of people talking about Crossing this and disturbing the seeds, My worry is this GMO wont be regulated like the others are, so it could get spread and out of control quickly. And with not knowing how this could affect other varieties. 5-10 years from now could be a lot worse.
I do have some hope, I'm seeing more and more countries starting to Ban the growing and sale of GMOS, so far 28, after research is starting to show, they aren't that good for us, and unfortunately some are showing health issues are starting to pop up.
These are probably the same people that spray Roundup on their vegetable gardens. You just can’t reason with some folks using common sense.
I am very confused. What purpose does a GMO anything serve? At what point are we going to collectively understand that we already have the food we need in the condition we need it? Jess, you grow a beautiful garden with real, healthy, nutritious food! It’s real and honourable and sustainable. We need to stop messing with our future food and focus on the marvellous gifts we have! Thank you Jess, for all you do and all you represent in this world! 🤗🤗🤗
My understanding is that genetic modification is the only way to patent a lifeform.
@@ColRubyDimplesManacha Patenting seeds began i the early 1930s. The first commercial GMO seed was marketed in 1994.
EVERYTHING you said is True! Thank you for your courage from the dangers that are out there! You re NOT walking this path alone! So many of us are with you! March ON! Love your Channel! 🥰🙏
Thanks for continuing to be a gentle light. An ambassador. A teachable humble teacher and friend! We love you Jess!
Wow, Jess, your words on hope was the most profound thing I've heard in a long time.
Thank you so much for your balanced, rational, and educated voice of reason. Because this is a terrifying world. ❤️
I have a section of my freezer dedicated to seeds since covid. I never thought of this though.
Saving seeds over here on my little 5 acre homestead in TN, Jess! Here's to hope! XOXO
I’m screaming!!!😂 plant condoms!!!! Hahaha I will forever call them that! And I have already started grabbing and saving some of those because I had a feeling this year was the year to start learning to save seed. Also purchased the book “Seed to Seed”! A great guidebook!
I know I'm going to laugh out loud next time I'm at a nice fancy event and somebody's got some candy almonds in a drawstring sachet! 😂😂
@@shandysgarden yess lol. I won’t ever look at those organza bags the same and I’m so okay with it! 🤣😂
@@Thewildbloomgarden I think it's a good trade-off 😜
Thank-you for speaking out about everything going on. Some people choose to pretend everything is okay out of fear. I'm like you, I'm not fearful because I am preparing for my family's future. If people wouldn't have grown and raised their own food in the great depression, they wouldn't have survived. If people don't want to hear what's going on and prepare, they should avoid those topics. Don't expect others to avoid it because of your fear!
Hey! I'm finally head of Jess on a gardening task! I created 2 seed banks and placed them for future use. I did it in 2020, after our Michigan governor banned stores from selling SEEDS. And yes, she did - I was in Walmart and witnessed employees wheeling a huge seed display into the garden center, then taping it off with caution tape. I took pics and asked what was going on. Workers told me they were doing it "under orders of the governor " BTW: i had 2 friends who had commercial greenhouses whose sales were ready, but the governor banned them taking phone or internet orders then be no contact placement in the buyers trunks. Yet the big box stores, pot shops, convenient stores were "essential "
So call me Miss Scarlet, but I'll never let a politician come between me and SEEDS again!
The day after she "banned" the sale of seeds...I went to Meijer and bought a bunch of vegetable and flower seeds!
I have been concerned about food security and seed storage for years. I sprouted seeds recently that I saved from 2017. Thanks for the enlightenment and encouragement.
My first response when this story originally broke was “it seems like a slippery slope to me”. In and of itself not alarming but a peek behind the “future curtain” is what bothers me.
It just seems unnecessary 🤷🏻♀️
Just bought bags immediately after watching this video. Thanks for the solid reminder Jess! I too have gotten lax with the availability of seeds- but my dad has always said, “Better to not need it and have it, than to need it and not have it.”
Also, 100% this is a threat to us and shouldn’t be taken lightly. We don’t know when they will pull the trigger on something bigger.
Also… it’s your channel. Anyone contradicting you in spite or pride is sitting behind the keyboard for a reason!
Thanks again for what you share and your time to do it. ❤
Always appreciate these videos!!
It’s a great idea to save seed. Not only as a prepper function but also as a cost efficient way to garden.
Exactly how I feel! Ive been buying extra seeds now and planning to save more of my own seeds this year too! I'll do what I can to and try not to fear what I can't control. Thank you for sharing Exactly how many of us feel and sharing how we can prepare.
Thank you Jessica again for using your platform for good.
I see your love and light.
I love that you show no shame. I believe that “ staying where your feet are at and always 10 toes deep in your faith” is the only way to live a fulfilling life.
A lesson learned on the daily.
Thank you for being you and as always Be Blessed 🙏❤️
You’re a gem . Never apologize for the frightening topic of saving heirloom seeds. It is a frightening topic. These are frightening times. The most frightening element is just how many people have no idea of the impending doom at this moment. You’re doing a great thing. It’s critical that people wake up and act now. You’re brave and knowledgeable. Knowledge is power. Thank you for all you do !!
Yes! Seed ark's are necessary. I've been saving seeds for myself, and seeds for others. Why not? It's fun, it saves money, and it also gives you peace of mind.
I have gardened my entire life with exception of moves but I am having health issues and having to cut back on my gardening. That being said I am going to try and set up more raised garden and I want to seed save which is new to me. Thank you for all you do to encourage people to feed their families as healthy as possible. It is a challenge with people having to have a two income family which is so sad. Just love you sister!!! 🙏♥️
Doing it. Been doing it. It got so bad with the blue lakes seeds we were buying, i sought out the best plants one year and just saved the seeds. Dedicating a few plants to save every year. Last yr my helpful hubby picked some of the beans at prime , was so proud of himself when he announced he had given them to our neighbor to enjoy. Glad i already had some tucked away. 😅
Thank you Jess for your attention to this subject that you're always so eloquent. Love you
I haven't gotten thru the entire video yet, but wanted to say THANKS!. This talk resonated with me today on a few different levels....and I really needed to hear it. Often I think a video isn't what i want or need to hear, and I'm often wrong. Again, as always, thanks for your content....and your truth!
I love you and I love this response so much 🥰🥰
Ngl- I got a little teary-eyed thinking about 1000 people choosing to protect the seeds ahead of potential threat. I've been saving seeds for years and have used those little mesh bags to prevent cross-pollination in my tomatoes since I saw your seed saving video years ago.
You have been such an incredible inspiration in my life - so much so that I quit my gov job to get a bachelor's degree in sustainable food and farming and start teaching others how to grow their own food.
Thank you so much for being such a light in this world! ❤
Every time I watch your videos there is a takeaway…. I need to hear “hope over fear” today. Not necessarily for the same topic but in general. Thank you. Thanks for sharing this as well. Learned a lot.
The seed saving story from your area is beautifully sentimental and empowering❤seed saving from a place of empowerment and love of the plants🙏Ty for sharing!
Thank you, Jess for your wisdom and reminder to come up with solutions to situations that seem out of our control. I am going to save seeds this year too. I turned 75 last year so am not as spry as I used to be. I am redesigning my garden to all raised beds. I had gotten depressed thinking I had to give up gardening. It brings me such joy and satisfaction, I came up with my own solution. The good Lord provided a positive, hard working, delightful young man to help in my garden. God always provides! Love from Mississippi
Jess I love your approach and delivery. I’m usually the quite student in your class room, lol
Just want to applaud you at how well you communicate your experiences in homesteading❤
Great video! Our local paper had an article about a man who saves seeds and is being honored by a preservation group in Davenport, Iowa. His business is called Sand Hill Preservation Center. After reading the article I determined I was going to start saving seeds this year. So glad you talked about this and I am going to try it with the party bags! Thanks!!
Your seed saving videos over the years have empowered me to save a lot of seeds. I eventually got a book on it too. I've listened to various podcasts such as ones from Joe Gardener podcast on the subject. Amazing power to save seeds! I Have 4-5 types of seeds dried, ready to be packaged from last year on my bookshelf. The mesh bags go a long way and are so easy to use. As I'm sowing seeds, I make note of what packs are low and need to be saved. I have 5 thing so far that I need to save!
Youre such a gem Jess. For anyone else who loves The Seed Keeper I recommend the podcast Native Seed Pod
I try to always save seeds because my second and third year plants become acclimated to my yard and growing conditions.
I just love this so much. I think keeping these varieties that have passed down from hand to hand for so long is culturally, environmentally, and ecologically important. Look forward to any seed saving videos in the future and will look for the past one.
I've been saving seeds for years. I appreciate your staying on top of the GMO issue entering the environment. Given the legal history with SEED Control in the Commercial Ag environment for profit & Control for sake, I believe that it is essential that we all do what we can to save as many varieties of seed as we can. More plant varieties have become EXTINCT than we currently still have due to many of the issues you have mentioned in this video. I appreciate your attempt at keeping a level head without panic, however, I echo a sense of urgency that many other seed savers have stated. Once the diversity is gone, it will be lost forever. Never to be regained.
Thank you, Jessica. I bless you once again for your willingness to share the hard truths. May God continue to bless you with abundance in all things.
Thank you Jess for addressing the GMO dilema. I so agree with your thoughts on those new GMO purple tomato seeds. My first reaction was to fall into the various rabbit holes for long term consequences. Even after reading and researching any articles on these seeds, I am totally unswayed as to their supposed benefits. I trust that we home gardeners and homesteaders are as informed and wise in our decisions to continue saving or purchasing tried and true seed varieties from those reputable companies we all trust, and swap among communities of like-minded gardeners.
Seeds are sacred. I have always believed this, and I treat my small gardens as a mini temple.
I've been binging on your seed haul videos for the past few days ... I never get tired of them ,🥰
Jess I've been watching you since about the time you put out that first video. Today you were part of my honeschool morning with this one. ❤❤
Good chat. There is comfort in doing something, anything, no matter how small, that helps to ensure ones future. And saving seeds is one of those things. Even if it is just one thing you save seeds on, you just never know how far that one seed can go, if needed. I understand why it would be difficult to chat about this topic but you did well Jess! It is so easy to go down the negative road but much harder to stay positive and do something to give one hope. Good job on this!
I want to like this several times. You are such a fantastic educator! I already save lettuce herb and Asian greens. I also think this topic is important. I will now be saving seed from my tomatoes eggplants and chillies. Keep up the great work. We need your voice. Together we are better and stronger. My children and grandchildren will be eating heirloom fruit and veg. I commit to that. And we will be a family that in our small urban yard saves and shares seed. So much power and future in that. From my different spiritual beliefs to yours…I bless you and yours 🌻🌈🌱☀️🌦️🌧️🍅
Tons of my tomato babies sproted this morning and i was just looking at and appreciating them and thinking to myself that this year and beyond more than ever my seed saving needs to be a priority ❤
I can feel your passion and I love it. I am the same I don't know how every one will respond. But when you have a passion and a feeling like you need to warn people I feel like that's also from the Lord. It says to cast our cares upon him. That's what I feel don't be worried be prepared! ❤ Thanks for sharing there are sometimes I watch your stuff and think that's exactly they way I feel and I'm glad I'm not the only one.
LOVE your colorful seed cups!
Me too! Does anyone know where to purchase?
@@katiedavis5861 They look sturdy, too!
Those colorful containers r from bootstrap farmer. Mi gardener sells them only in black right now
@@tinaschaller8055 thank you!!
You are so on point. When my state threatened to limit my garden space on my private property, my yard y'all to 8x8....I didnt fear, I just said aloud, i will turn my entire yard into a garden then, and I am still working on it but its mostly growing space and play area. Get going y'all, have no fear like the bible says 365 times. God bless!
Wow, which state is that?
What? Your state threatened this?? Are you sure it wasn’t your HMO or perhaps just your municipality due to zoning laws? I can’t imagine an entire state trying to ban the entire home gardening industry!
I'm in my 50s and planning to try to grow some veggies this year. We had a garden growing up and my mom canned things when I was young. But as soon as the family had enough of an income, she stopped and relied on the grocery store instead. It was something she never enjoyed and so didn't really pass any knowledge on to me or my siblings. So I'm grateful for your knowledge and your willingness to share what you have learned.
When the pandemic first started, I had just joined a CSA an got a bagful of vegetables each week that I had to figure out what to do with. I ate so many things I had never tried before and found some favorites from when I was a kid. I even started cooking more and more, I used to just heat up already prepared meals from the frozen section. And once I discovered roasting vegetables, I can't go back now!
Anyway, thank you for your videos. You have inspired me to try to grow my own things this year. I'm in a colder climate than you are but I'll give it my best go. Bless you!
The same scorched earth policy was employed here in South Africa. I am with you on saving seeds for difficult times. Thanks for the tip of protecting against cross pollination by using organza bags.
I am getting some larger organza bags for my squash/melon family plants to protect them from fruit flies. I haven't harvested a single spaghetti squash or courgette. The fruit get stung even before they are pollinated. Thanks
This was perfect! Please always keep being this way and just speaking your truth! May the Lord bless you ❤
LOVE this vlog SO MUCH!!! Empowerment and GRACE....Love you, Jess! 🙌👏😘💖
I already have many yards of white tulle that I use for insect cover. You can cut a large square of this and tie it around a blossom. I am saving seeds from my King of the North peppers this year as they grow phenomenal for me. Last year I saved my favorite cucumber and squash seeds. Year before I saved my favorite cherry tomato seeds. I only had a few seeds left and wnen I tried to buy more, I couldn't find them. That was a shocker for me. I guess I'll be saving more tomato seeds this year. Thanks Jess...for everything.
Faith over fear, thank you for your words of wisdom Jess in a time where fear can and does EASILY run rampant. Your channel brings me comfort even in my small apartment with the tiniest porch for tower gardening. Thank you!!! ❤
Ooo my R&R New Video radar has never been this spot on before!
Jess, you are such a blessing! I shared this video with three of my family members just because of your monologue on Hope versus hopelessness! You are very well spoken and offer such practical wisdom! Thank you so much for this video!
Yay for historic heroes !! Nice knowledgeable speech of passion . Great topic which we all need to know .
Thank-you, so much for your thoughts. We are 63 and have 40 acres here in Oklahoma.
You hear Jess folks.... Let's ride ahead!!! 🐎
“I SPEAK FOR THE SEEDS!” You are so full of wisdom Jess, I get so alarmed about gmo seeds and I just want to say thank you for this video. We are going to save seeds in our little garden community! I’m one of those who grows a ton of different varieties of tomatoes too! ❤️ You could say I’m a “variety junkie” haha it’s the spice of life. The beauty that God created. 🌟
Wow! After watching your vlog about the GMO tomato, I decided I needed to be more intentional about saving seeds from different varieties of heirloom vegetables. Seeing this vlog just reinforces that decision. Thank you, Jess!
This is so simple yet also very wise. Arm ourselves with information… and seeds! Happy gardening everyone!
PS - off to watch the older video because I’ve never saved tomato seeds. Time to learn.
YES YES YES!! GO JESS! I had the same thoughts regarding seed saving after hearing about the GMO tomato plants. I haven't saved seeds before from my garden so this will be my first year and I look forward to all your future content around this issue! You are such a bright light and help to keep me grounded in my thoughts when I feel overwhelmed too. Thanks for all you do :)
You always do a great job of giving hope and not fear. I feel more empowered now to save more seeds this year. Not because I'm scared but because I am excited! Also great knowing the seeds will be locally adapted to my garden and potentially grow better every year. We have a great organization up here in Canada called Seeds of Diversity - they are people protecting the peoples seed, that's how I found my first seed swap :)
YES YES YES! Thank you for being brave and sharing your truth with us. I agree 1000% with every heartfelt word you said.
God is good!!! I was at a surplus store the other day and they have bolts of Towle fabric for $2 for the whole bolt... I thought, you don't need that, but I had a nudge that I did need it... so I bought it ❤❤ I can make a ton of those little bags for $2 + some thread cost...😊
I pulled a Jess today and dug up sunflower sprouts and a pumpkin sprout and brought them in my house to put under my grow lights. I know we'll get another freeze in NE Texas and don't want them to die.
😂😂😂 I do that too if I see volunteers. At least give them a cover with a pot or something!
It's a must in my little garden lol my front flower bed is covered in snapdragon seedlings, but they'll survive a frost if they're big enough and these 80° days we've been having will have them growing plenty big enough.
I've told before about the 120+ year seed germination experiment. It's amazing that some of them still sprout.
I really enjoy watching your videos. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but I do save bulk seeds (1lb+). I freeze them all and change them out, every 3-4 years. I guess I'm considered a seed hoarder. Like a commentor said, paraphrasing, "I stopped following other UA-camrs, because of fear mongering." Thank you, Miss Jess. Happy homesteading! 🙏🏻❤️
My gosh, you sweet woman❤, we freaking love you too! 😢
thank you for existing
I have a whole tub of apple trees growing from seeds I stratified in the fridge this winter from apples we ate. I realize they will probably not come true ti type but that is how some new varieties come about. They fill me with hope of cider to come and I feel like John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed).
Planting seeds IS hope for tomorrow. Love your channel. ❤
I so wholeheartedly agree Jess. I've been building my seed bank for a few years now and I've got a good hefty box of them so far. I will certainly continue the obsession!