It never wears off Jess!!!!! I am 65 years young and it never wears off. I put in a fruit tree forest two years ago. It was so exciting to see the blooms and then the fruit, oh my goodness!!! I put money away for three years to by first year fruiting trees, they are more expensive, but, as old as I am I wanted fruit the first year and my dream came true. Thank you for sharing and GOD bless you all.
You and Miah are such an inspiration to me! I am 68 and 2 years ago I had a stroke, but I am fine except for the dizziness now. I only have an acre but it is in the middle of a cornfield in the country and overlooks the flatlands of the Mississippi River. I live alone and don't drive anymore, but my bff lives not far from me and helps me out whenever possible. (I get around this town on a golf cart so I am not completely helpless!) I built my own tiny house/shed/lawn tractor garage 10x16" with a porch and just finished it when I had my stroke. Since then, I have built 4 new raised bed gardens 2- 4x20' 1- 2'x24' and 1 4'x8', an arbor, 2 in-ground beds 8x8' and just got my neighbor to bring me some straw bales for mulching. (See my pics on facebook if you can) I love watching your videos and you guys are such a pleasure to me at the end of the day! I BLESS YOU!
My goodness, that's great! You are great. I hope we can all keep that motivated and inspired even after a set back like that. Keep growing and inspiring others ☺️
I have been gardening since age4(with Grandma's guidance ?the thrill of discovery o0f anew plant or fruit from something you have sewn, never gets less thrilling. I'm 52years young now, and hope it never ever does!
Your zinnias have a zinnia blight called Alternaria Blight. It’s specific to zinnias & plants closely related to them. It’s often caused by infected seeds, but can also be caused by overhead irrigation w/little air flow in a crowded planting. It’s bound to persist in those conditions, especially when foliage isn’t able to stay dry due to weather. It spreads very easily to other zinnias in the garden close by. I would pull them out before they self seed, as the infected seeds will continue the blight into the next generation. It does eventually also damage/effect the flowers & overall health of the plants. Start fresh in spring w/new seeds. Come spring, I’d either replace or treat that soil before sowing zinnias in it again. You can solarize the soil, mix in organic micronized sulfur, soak the soil in an organic fungicide that is approved for this blight & soil applications, or even use a diluted hydrogen peroxide “wash” to kill off any blight in the soil, then amend w/fresh compost @ sowing time. Freezes don’t always kill off virulent strains of blight. While this blight is unique to zinnias, I’ve discovered thru the yrs that having any form of blight in my gardens usually leads to more, different strains that effect other plants. Hope this helps you!
Hi Jess, my grandmother once told me the excitement of spring is newness of life. The winter lays dormant like death. And so for seeds they lay dormant as in death but germinate to newness of life as we water and fertilize. Just as we are with our Father in heaven. In life we sometimes lay dormant until the word of God enters in and we have new life in Jesus Christ. The excitement is in us all the time for newness of life. Just like when we see a new baby. Oh my nothing thrills me like holding a new baby! The creation God has done. Creation excitement from God! I'm so glad my grandmother shared this with me, shes long gone but not forgotten. She is resting until Jesus comes then she will have newness of life. Have a Great Day Jess! 💕
Another inspiring video! If you collect the caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and other pests in a pail, they make a great chicken protein treat! Nature has no waste
Brilliant idea - love cat! That is the BEST solution to pests. I could see the cute little guy Ben, a little confused about giving the toad a good home, and then stomping on the caterpillars in defence of Mommies cabbage plant! I LOVE your suggestion, thank you for sharing! GOD Bless
The magic and wonder of planting a seed and watching it grow will never go away. 🌟 🌱And there is something equally satisfying about seeing a plant setting fruit and being able to say, "I did that."
Bless Daniels heart for such a sweet act of service! Sometimes actions are what's called for instead of words especially during a time where there are no words that could possibly help.
No! I just turned 61 and I grew up in a vegetable garden (thanks Dad!). That sense of wonder, amazement, and gratitude every time a seed sprouts or a fruit forms, or you pull food from the ground -- it never goes away; and I think that, in itself, is a pretty wondrous thing! Happy gardening!
late to the party here as I 'binge watch' your old episodes... I only have a few years on you, but I grew up having a vegetable garden and I regularly help my mother plant her seeds. She is in her late 70s. The answer to does it ever get old or wear off as to getting excited is NO. My mother and I were just talking last spring (it's January now) about how she still gets so excited whenever her seeds come up or her plants set their fruit. She asked me if I felt the same or if she was just nuts. We laughed and I explained that if she is nuts, I'm right there with her!
I have to tell you... I had a long day at work today (I only work one day a week), anyway when I got home it was almost dark and raining so I didn’t get to go to my garden, so I enjoyed visiting yours tonight! What a blessing you are! Thank you for sharing!
Seeds germinating, fruit/veg setting, a graft 'taking'- I always have the 'caught breath', the thrill-I've been gardening 26 years and it hasn't gone away. My nana is 90, and since she can't garden herself now, gets a thrill from my Instagram photos and videos. So I don't think that ever goes away-it's part of being in the 'club.' Your garden is lovely ☺️ 🌸
When I walk with you through your garden, I feel like we walk through with the Holy Spirit right beside us. The peace that is there, the prayer that have been prayed, the worship also. I hope I can get my garden back into what it was and even more. Blessings
@@grandiesgarden175 when we set aside a place to meet Him at, He loves it so much that He makes sure He shows up. Years ago, the first thing I put up in my garden was a very big cross. We used it so many times in plays, I didn't put it back. First thing I did was put it back up the begaining of the spring and boy did my garden grow for the first time starting it back up. I shut down for a year, when I came to myself, I looked around and knew the only way I would not loss everything was to homestead again. Everyone needs to have a special place where you can meet God and worship and pray.
I dream to have what you have! For now, I can't have it. So I work to make money with a greater good in mind while I grow on my small plot. Someday, I will grow and share my blessings. Much love.
I'm 49 now & have been gardening w/ my parents & grandparents my whole life. I still get thrilled when my seeds come up (& perhaps equally disapointed at the ones that don't). Also, every little bean, baby tomato, cucumbers, zucchinis, carrots, radishes, etc 8 see coming on I get so exited about too! It is so rewarding to plant, grow & harvest your own food!
The awe of growing plants never wears off. My mother, at 92, got a grin ear to ear seeing a volunteer tomato plant in her yard and loved checking on its progress. She has been gone several years and I think of her joy as I too grin with any growth my garden provides.
I hope you don't stop making videos over the winter. I do love the garden tours, but I'm also interested to see how you use the food that you've put up over the winter. What things last you until next season's growing? The plans you make for next year's garden and how you organize it? What things you might be getting into with your leather business? And then there's the animals...😄
I am the same way. It never ever gets old. I planted some herb seeds about a week and a half ago. All have come up except the rosemary. The rosemary seeds were from my 5-year-old plant that had flowered three weeks ago. I thought I'd try to collect the seeds and plant them. Just to see what I could get. I know rosemary is notoriously difficult to germinate. I have come home from work every night and checked all my seed cells, all have germinated, except the rosemary. That is until tonight. I do believe I see one little itty bitty sprout just breaking the surface. Now, I can say that I am a gardener. I planted that 5-year-old rosemary plant using a whole packet of seeds, and only one germinated. And today, I have germinated a rosemary seedling from a seed that came from that 5-year-old rosemary plant. Color me a happy gardener!
I watched Freedom Homestead tonight and Tangi mentioned your channel. Your gardens and technique was what she was so excited about. Tangi has been binge watching your videos and loves them. So I gave it a try and am very impressed! Your gardens are beautiful. I like the way you explain the plants and how you garden. Thank you, I am going to watch more videos and start planning my garden for next spring. I am in Colorado and will grow a few small things indoors but nothing outside. I truly enjoyed this video!
Thanks for the tour, I planted zucchini and tomato this year because your videos inspired me to grow a garden again!! Been seven years since my last garden. Now I am getting pretty charged up for next year, buying seeds and planning. Pulled tomatoes up last Sunday what a sad moment. Thanks for sharing your Garden. I live in Washington state
Some of us are just called to be gardeners and the thrill hasn't worn off for me, and I have had a garden of some sort or the other for the last 38 years.
No. That feeling you feel when you see a seed sprout, a flower bloom or a fruit set doesn't fade. I've been gardening for more than 30 years, and just this morning when I saw my lettuce and chamomile had sprouted over night, I felt it. I think because we experience the magic called life. It's real.
I think it is the woman's mind of making new life that thrills us so much when we grow. I know new life in any form, be it germinating seeds or new babies of any form just makes me happy.
Daniel is so thoughtful what a great guy.Jess I hope we get to see you and your family all winter.I hope you will have videos of your day to day life on the farm all year long.
I absolutely feel your giddiness at germination, until a few years ago I’d never met a plant I couldn’t kill unti I really started researching how things grow in nature like my orchids. That feeling never goes away lmao I will always be so absolutely overjoyed to see something I put into the ground God decided to bless with life to my absolute joy and amazement and it makes me feel so blessed every single time as does your channel your beautiful family and your infectious laugh
just started watching your channel. Been watching Daniel Arms ,Homesteady, Sara & Kevin, Justin Rhodes,weed em & Reap.Looking forward to adding you to my list. why don"t you save the worms from the plants for the chickens they love them. We try to feed all things we find while working in the yard to the chickens except slugs!We Have 11 egg chickens, hoping to add two kiko's next year, then a couple pigs after that. We just started our homestead two years ago on 40 acres in western NY. We have more food trees plants and bushes and garden than animals, so far. wish we could have started earlier in life, like most of you! Keep up the good work.
Nature testifies of God's love. It's no wonder so many find refuge in the garden. It was our first home, and the new earth will be as the first, a testimony of God's love. I think that's why so many people love your channel Jess, I always feel joy and peace when watching you. Do you feed your garden beds in the fall like Luke from MIgardener? Maybe you could make a video of how you put the beds to sleep! Thanks again for what you do🐞🐝🌻
I live in a hot country that the weather could reach 122 F in summer ,,, Fall is like the spring to most countries so I just started to plant my seeds and I hope they will grow up beautifully like your garden ,, it's so hard to garden in my country because of the heat and poor soil with no rain for years .... sometimes I wish to live in places like where you live .... happy gardening for everyone and yeah seeing your seed germinate will never fail to make me happy
I hear you so much on the chicken destruction in the garden. I completely gave up on mine earlier this year and then a couple weeks ago I went and filmed all of the destruction before I re-mulched it. It was absolutely ridiculous what they do. Your garden still just looks so beautiful! It always does. And NO it isn’t weird you are planning next year already, I’ve been planning things out in my head for weeks now! Will be nice to be able to actually EAT some of the things I grow now that I’ve got the chickens fenced out.
I am 71 and have been gardening most of my life, it never gets old. I am always amazed that stuff came up, made fruit, or produced an edible root. I love grazing on thinnings, and leafy greens and always feel so lucky that I can.
Hi Jess! After watching this video yesterday, I threw all trepidation aside, went out to the barn, built some planter boxes and am going to give this veggie garden thing a go! My entire life I have dreamt of growing my own food but felt I lacked the space and skill. However, your videos and energy are so inspiring...I just had to join in on this good vibe movement ;) Thank you.
Very nice tour. I’m curious, you grow interesting plants that I obviously don’t see in the grocery store. Can you do some videos showing garden to table, what you do with things like noodle beans, or making the tobasco peppers into vinegar for your greens. I am also interested in using other plants medicinally.
Wow! So many peppers! You could make dried peppers or pepper jars, or pepper powder and give them to friends as a Christmas present in cute decorated mason jars lol.
your garden Is amazing and I enjoyed your tour and your little boy Is so sweet he really got Into the fact that warms were bad and they needed to stop eating mama's broccoli and stomped on them
That’s a huge garden and you’re such a good narrator. I get totally lost in your videos. It’s a welcome break so I thank you for sharing your life 😀 God bless y’all from Wilmington North Carolina
Your little boys are so adorable!!! I have 3 kids and my youngest is 14 years old. I am missing the times when they where babies and under 5 years old. So naturally, I want another baby!
Oh Jess, I just enjoy your channel so much,,,, but your little Benny boy just steals the show !!!! What an adorable little tyke !!!!! So are the rest of your babies but I'm fascinated with how lovable little Ben is !!!! I'm Irene, a 65 year old grand that misses her grands who are with their missionary parents in Peru !!! Love watching yours.
Hey Jess this is Megan from me myself and die I did a raised bed garden like you did and I did two different ones I have a spring garden in a Summergarden and I made my bed enough to feed my family for one year my spring beds are 15 dad‘s and my summer beds are 21 it added up to be about a half acre and gave it plenty of walk spaceI was seeing you Sam my plans that I wrote and love your videos you inspired me to do this for me and my family thank you so much
I feel so lost in the winter too. I was raised in the mountains and was used to snow. We had a very short growing season. Now I live 75 miles south and we have a longer growing season, but nothing like yours. The first frost is last of September or first of October. Last frost is often end of May, first of June or when the snow is off Schaffer's butte!
I love your garden! I just bought a house outside KC, MO. I am designing my garden beds now with your beds as my inspiration. Thanks so much. Keep posting! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I love germinating seeds. It's the most fun seeing your plants when they first pop out of the soil 😊 I germinate a lot of seeds in a paper towel method first when I need my seeds to germinate a little faster. I cannot wait till my fiance and I can start creating our dream garden and have a small farm one day.
Thanks Jess! Your garden is gorgeous! Hand picking them worms off and using neem oil as a preventative works amazing! Ive been gardening about 7 years and it has worked for many different pests and fungus diseases throughout my garden! It's 100% organic which I love and doesn't kill good bugs in the garden. I only spray neem oil at night so the sun has no chance in burning my leaves and so it doesn't get directly on bees because it can kill them 😊 Living in f.l, we never get a break with pests and fungal diseases/mold so preventative treatment every 7 days is so important. Even through the so called winter we have. Lol
I still feel the excitement when seeds germinate after 45 years of gardening. It's getting to witness the owesomeness of life. It's a closer feeling to GOD and knowing you are part of the circle. Too bad more people don't think they can receive that same rush with working and growing food for their family. Instead they will sit round and complain about how much they can't afford and how expensive quality veggies are when they could raise fantastic ones for next to nothing. There is nothing to compare to fresh green peas eaten in the garden (my toddlers would have a bushel basket half eaten while I was working on getting dinner together.Laughing themselves silly when I went to shell the empty pods.) just recently my asparagus made an appearance, my 14 yr old granddaughter and I enjoyed it right there. What a memory that will be when she has little ones. We are so blessed with our gardens. You are a wonderful inspiration to all Jessie, your enthusiasm shines through. God bless
God I believe uses plants as representatives of our lives. I believe He sets it as an example of the fruit we produce. How much we invest we reap. I have failed so many years as a gardener but this year for the first time saw fruit produced(though minuscule) It did something to my heart. Just as we seek the Lord and read His word and speak it He begi to show us the fruit produced, little by little. He amazes me. I love your heart dear girl and when you said you saw fruit your heart lept. That's exactly what I felt. God Bless you and Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I divinely stumbled upon you.
+Roots and Refuge Farm Ty dear one. you are such an inspiration to me and many others. Continue to keep your eyes upward as you humble yourself. God is in control! I am thankful to have found you as a sister in Christ. persevere and stay focused on Him. Bless you sweet sister!
Jessica, watching from Central Missouri...trending MECCA for homesteads. We moved from the extremely fertile river valley of Nebraska and moved into the land of clay. Everything you shared as your plan for compensating and fixing the clay are all great ideas and will work. We learned that even working with amendments we continued to experience excessive clay. Solution: Purchase bags of gypsum..sprinkle 1/4 -1/2 inch across the tops of the soil, turn the soil and add your other mulches and compost. Miracle in our garden and its a mineral from the earth!!
With regards to the sweet peas, my aunt used to just pick them for the birds, she would pick a bunch of pods after dinner then sit and shuck them on the back porch and hand feed them to the birds, squirrels and skunks. She had regulars that would come around daily...
I would love to see more cooking videos with the vegetable varieties that you grow in your garden next year. I would love it if you would show us how that you cook them and if your kids like the variety or type of vegetable that you grow. I don't eat a lot of veggies and would like to venture out to new things, but do not know how to cook them or how to make them taste good so that myself and family would eat them..lol.
Beautiful Garden, love it. Yes, my Malabar spinach has that same leaf spot with the white center and red ring, I think it's because of not enough air circulation in the plant. Because my Malabar spinach grows right by my back door on my porch I guess it is too much moister on the leaves after watering. Not for sure though. But yes, I've eaten my Malabar spinach with those leave spots on them, it's not harmful really. Gorgeous beans, peas, and peppers there. I've been growing the Mambo (green-colored) Beans from Africa because they are drought tolerant and it tends to get drought-like here in central TX. And they are doing amazing in my container garden! They are duo-purpose beans and they taste sweet as a fresh-eaten green bean and I will be trying to save seeds for next year. So happy for you on all your garden and your beautiful collection of plants. Nothing wrong with having a garden Jungle. Yummy, cabbage rolls sound good right now. I will never get tired of seeing teeny-tiny itty-bitty sprouts and baby plants growing up. I only planted one of those tobascos birds-beak peppers and they are everywhere! Like a small tree! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
the leaves and flowers and gardens look great....where I live, the leaves are awesome and I am delighted for my 'Kale' has done wonderful, and I think I will have a Purple Cabbage! Even one of my Celery is now sweet...for we had such a hot weather for quite sometime and the celery was so so so bitter, that I almost pulled them, But, now I am so grateful I didn't...My garden is a tiny one compared to yours, but, it is MINE! Thanks for sharing....Sherry :)
Wonderful video...I bought some Ashwagandha seeds from bakers creek and had planted them several times and got nothing. Decided to try one more time...got some! Was soooooo excited! I'm going to completely redo my flower gardens in the spring and incorporate lots more herbs and medicinals....
Yay for getting the in-ground garden going! You are inspiring as usual. We are blessed with good soil here on our plot. We do have lots of worms and subsequently MOLES! I just learned they eat worms from one of my kids school books! They haven't damaged my plants yet though, just cause soft spots so far. Hey Jess, will you do some more homeschool videos soon? This is our first year and I have a 10 &4 Y/O and I find you so calming and inspiring in your videos. I am going without curriculum right now. Much love!
I enjoyed every second of this video! I've had a time with the worms on my brassicas...grrr! Bt spray has helped get them under control for the most part. Jess, my hubby and sons put up cattle pannel arches in my garden for me this past weekend! I so wish I could show you a picture! I'm beyond excited for spring but I've got snow and sweet peas germinating to grow on them for now. And I think in some way I'll enjoy the slower pace of fall/winter gardening (in in South Carolina and we have pretty mild winters) but I'm bursting with excitement for this coming spring because you have given me so many great ideas!
Forgot to tell you I tried pickling some radishes. They are fantastic and the zucchini, carrots and onions are just wonderful. Thanks to giving me the idea. I'm going to roast the remaining big round radishes tonight.
My Dad had a portable pen he moved around in the garden for 5 pigs. He called it his 5 pig tiller. Joel Salatin uses pigs to aerate and till the wood chips in the chicken house where he winters his chickens. He entices them to dig by putting corn in with the wood chips. He claims pigs "will work for corn".
Not sure if you'll see this. I'm watching everything from the beginning and this is where I am! Anywho, I've had great success keeping cabbage worms off my brassica by regrowing celery bottoms from the grocery store. The moths HATE celery. Start at the end of summer and keep really moist. They'll set flowers for seed too!
I'm in oklahoma and have the soil issues too so I got a load of wood chips over autumn and pray that after a few years I don't have to supplement soil so much and can have much easier soil to work with
You should grow some kohlrabi plants you eat the ball of the plant after you peel it, they are delicious you may want to grow some, if you have ever heard of them, you eat them raw as we always did, when they are younger, when they get to big they get pithy, but they taste like a cross between cabbage and potatoes sort of!
all the persimmons seeds that friends have opened, have spoons in them, which is a sign of a bad winter to come, the plant Indian Ginseng, you may want to protect it a bit more, hoping we don't have a bad winter as many are saying, just sharing what I have been told, I'm up here in Yellville, Thank You for all the infor you share, enjoying your videos
“Don’t eat my mommies cabbage!” (Stomp) 😂🤣 I love how he told them
Would your chickens eat those worms?
It never wears off Jess!!!!! I am 65 years young and it never wears off. I put in a fruit tree forest two years ago. It was so exciting to see the blooms and then the fruit, oh my goodness!!! I put money away for three years to by first year fruiting trees, they are more expensive, but, as old as I am I wanted fruit the first year and my dream came true. Thank you for sharing and GOD bless you all.
Sounds like you’re headed to 5D: physical immortality...you’ve wouldn’t have done that otherwise. Congratulations!
I love Bens heart omg so precious bringing the toad to the garden to give him a “good” home . He’s got your heart ❤️
haha, I'm 64 and still get thrilled by little things popping up in the garden
You and Miah are such an inspiration to me! I am 68 and 2 years ago I had a stroke, but I am fine except for the dizziness now. I only have an acre but it is in the middle of a cornfield in the country and overlooks the flatlands of the Mississippi River. I live alone and don't drive anymore, but my bff lives not far from me and helps me out whenever possible. (I get around this town on a golf cart so I am not completely helpless!) I built my own tiny house/shed/lawn tractor garage 10x16" with a porch and just finished it when I had my stroke. Since then, I have built 4 new raised bed gardens 2- 4x20' 1- 2'x24' and 1 4'x8', an arbor, 2 in-ground beds 8x8' and just got my neighbor to bring me some straw bales for mulching. (See my pics on facebook if you can) I love watching your videos and you guys are such a pleasure to me at the end of the day! I BLESS YOU!
God Bless you
My goodness, that's great!
You are great. I hope we can all keep that motivated and inspired even after a set back like that.
Keep growing and inspiring others ☺️
Jess, you are such a delight for a 68 year old man. I love your video. You are so country, like me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
I have been gardening since age4(with Grandma's guidance ?the thrill of discovery o0f anew plant or fruit from something you have sewn, never gets less thrilling. I'm 52years young now, and hope it never ever does!
Big thank you to Daniel for putting the mulch down for you as you and your family worked through your loss.
Your zinnias have a zinnia blight called Alternaria Blight. It’s specific to zinnias & plants closely related to them. It’s often caused by infected seeds, but can also be caused by overhead irrigation w/little air flow in a crowded planting. It’s bound to persist in those conditions, especially when foliage isn’t able to stay dry due to weather. It spreads very easily to other zinnias in the garden close by. I would pull them out before they self seed, as the infected seeds will continue the blight into the next generation. It does eventually also damage/effect the flowers & overall health of the plants. Start fresh in spring w/new seeds. Come spring, I’d either replace or treat that soil before sowing zinnias in it again. You can solarize the soil, mix in organic micronized sulfur, soak the soil in an organic fungicide that is approved for this blight & soil applications, or even use a diluted hydrogen peroxide “wash” to kill off any blight in the soil, then amend w/fresh compost @ sowing time. Freezes don’t always kill off virulent strains of blight. While this blight is unique to zinnias, I’ve discovered thru the yrs that having any form of blight in my gardens usually leads to more, different strains that effect other plants. Hope this helps you!
Thanks for this info!!!
Great info indeed
Ty!
Thank you for the info!
super helpful info!!!
Hi Jess, my grandmother once told me the excitement of spring is newness of life. The winter lays dormant like death. And so for seeds they lay dormant as in death but germinate to newness of life as we water and fertilize. Just as we are with our Father in heaven. In life we sometimes lay dormant until the word of God enters in and we have new life in Jesus Christ. The excitement is in us all the time for newness of life. Just like when we see a new baby. Oh my nothing thrills me like holding a new baby! The creation God has done. Creation excitement from God!
I'm so glad my grandmother shared this with me, shes long gone but not forgotten. She is resting until Jesus comes then she will have newness of life.
Have a Great Day Jess! 💕
Another inspiring video!
If you collect the caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and other pests in a pail, they make a great chicken protein treat! Nature has no waste
Brilliant idea - love cat! That is the BEST solution to pests. I could see the cute little guy Ben, a little confused about giving the toad a good home, and then stomping on the caterpillars in defence of Mommies cabbage plant! I LOVE your suggestion, thank you for sharing! GOD Bless
The magic and wonder of planting a seed and watching it grow will never go away. 🌟 🌱And there is something equally satisfying about seeing a plant setting fruit and being able to say, "I did that."
Sorry for your loss.
We love your videos as they are very informative.
Precious son.
Thanks
Bless Daniels heart for such a sweet act of service! Sometimes actions are what's called for instead of words especially during a time where there are no words that could possibly help.
No! I just turned 61 and I grew up in a vegetable garden (thanks Dad!). That sense of wonder, amazement, and gratitude every time a seed sprouts or a fruit forms, or you pull food from the ground -- it never goes away; and I think that, in itself, is a pretty wondrous thing! Happy gardening!
late to the party here as I 'binge watch' your old episodes... I only have a few years on you, but I grew up having a vegetable garden and I regularly help my mother plant her seeds. She is in her late 70s. The answer to does it ever get old or wear off as to getting excited is NO. My mother and I were just talking last spring (it's January now) about how she still gets so excited whenever her seeds come up or her plants set their fruit. She asked me if I felt the same or if she was just nuts. We laughed and I explained that if she is nuts, I'm right there with her!
I have to tell you... I had a long day at work today (I only work one day a week), anyway when I got home it was almost dark and raining so I didn’t get to go to my garden, so I enjoyed visiting yours tonight! What a blessing you are! Thank you for sharing!
Feed those 🐛 to the chickens! Ben is so precious.
Seeds germinating, fruit/veg setting, a graft 'taking'- I always have the 'caught breath', the thrill-I've been gardening 26 years and it hasn't gone away. My nana is 90, and since she can't garden herself now, gets a thrill from my Instagram photos and videos. So I don't think that ever goes away-it's part of being in the 'club.' Your garden is lovely ☺️ 🌸
It is such a love isn't it!
I am nearly 60 and still get excited when seeds germinate 😄🌱
When I walk with you through your garden, I feel like we walk through with the Holy Spirit right beside us. The peace that is there, the prayer that have been prayed, the worship also. I hope I can get my garden back into what it was and even more. Blessings
HEAVENBOUND Homestead
In her garden, I learned God can come to my garden.
And holy smokes does He Bless me!
@@grandiesgarden175 when we set aside a place to meet Him at, He loves it so much that He makes sure He shows up. Years ago, the first thing I put up in my garden was a very big cross. We used it so many times in plays, I didn't put it back. First thing I did was put it back up the begaining of the spring and boy did my garden grow for the first time starting it back up. I shut down for a year, when I came to myself, I looked around and knew the only way I would not loss everything was to homestead again. Everyone needs to have a special place where you can meet God and worship and pray.
A teacher of mine taught us to say, "Jump up and live again!" to seeds when you plant them. It's so exciting when they do.
very smart cool teacher! ty!
I dream to have what you have! For now, I can't have it. So I work to make money with a greater good in mind while I grow on my small plot. Someday, I will grow and share my blessings. Much love.
keep dreaming that dream and doing what you can with what you have!
I'm the same way. The miracle of creation never loses it's wonder!
I'm 49 now & have been gardening w/ my parents & grandparents my whole life. I still get thrilled when my seeds come up (& perhaps equally disapointed at the ones that don't). Also, every little bean, baby tomato, cucumbers, zucchinis, carrots, radishes, etc 8 see coming on I get so exited about too! It is so rewarding to plant, grow & harvest your own food!
Btw...I like Black Panthers abs to - I would like to have abs like that😄
The awe of growing plants never wears off. My mother, at 92, got a grin ear to ear seeing a volunteer tomato plant in her yard and loved checking on its progress. She has been gone several years and I think of her joy as I too grin with any growth my garden provides.
Been gardening 50-51 years as an adult; I have to because I love to watch things grow. It is still exciting.
I hope you don't stop making videos over the winter. I do love the garden tours, but I'm also interested to see how you use the food that you've put up over the winter. What things last you until next season's growing? The plans you make for next year's garden and how you organize it? What things you might be getting into with your leather business? And then there's the animals...😄
I am the same way. It never ever gets old. I planted some herb seeds about a week and a half ago. All have come up except the rosemary. The rosemary seeds were from my 5-year-old plant that had flowered three weeks ago. I thought I'd try to collect the seeds and plant them. Just to see what I could get. I know rosemary is notoriously difficult to germinate. I have come home from work every night and checked all my seed cells, all have germinated, except the rosemary. That is until tonight. I do believe I see one little itty bitty sprout just breaking the surface. Now, I can say that I am a gardener. I planted that 5-year-old rosemary plant using a whole packet of seeds, and only one germinated. And today, I have germinated a rosemary seedling from a seed that came from that 5-year-old rosemary plant. Color me a happy gardener!
I watched Freedom Homestead tonight and Tangi mentioned your channel. Your gardens and technique was what she was so excited about. Tangi has been binge watching your videos and loves them. So I gave it a try and am very impressed! Your gardens are beautiful. I like the way you explain the plants and how you garden. Thank you, I am going to watch more videos and start planning my garden for next spring. I am in Colorado and will grow a few small things indoors but nothing outside. I truly enjoyed this video!
I've been gardening for over 50 years...no it doesn't change...I still get excited.
No it doesnt wear off 43 years old now, been growing food since my pap taught me when I was little. God certainly is great with his creations.
Thanks for the tour, I planted zucchini and tomato this year because your videos inspired me to grow a garden again!! Been seven years since my last garden. Now I am getting pretty charged up for next year, buying seeds and planning. Pulled tomatoes up last Sunday what a sad moment. Thanks for sharing your Garden. I live in Washington state
New growth , new life..always exciting ❤
That could be a catch phrase. 😊
Some of us are just called to be gardeners and the thrill hasn't worn off for me, and I have had a garden of some sort or the other for the last 38 years.
My most exciting garden moment was when my first asparagus peeked up through the ground. I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning.
No. That feeling you feel when you see a seed sprout, a flower bloom or a fruit set doesn't fade. I've been gardening for more than 30 years, and just this morning when I saw my lettuce and chamomile had sprouted over night, I felt it. I think because we experience the magic called life. It's real.
I think it is the woman's mind of making new life that thrills us so much when we grow. I know new life in any form, be it germinating seeds or new babies of any form just makes me happy.
Daniel is so thoughtful what a great guy.Jess I hope we get to see you and your family all winter.I hope you will have videos of your day to day life on the farm all year long.
Oh my gosh - Ben in his little overalls finding caterpillars - so funny to see how little he seems compared to now. ❤
I absolutely feel your giddiness at germination, until a few years ago I’d never met a plant I couldn’t kill unti I really started researching how things grow in nature like my orchids. That feeling never goes away lmao I will always be so absolutely overjoyed to see something I put into the ground God decided to bless with life to my absolute joy and amazement and it makes me feel so blessed every single time as does your channel your beautiful family and your infectious laugh
I just cried when I saw silks on my corn! I’m so excited! I don’t think it will ever wear off!
It never wears off. Keeps reminding us of the wonders of nature.
No Jess it never wears off,thank goodness.i feel
The same way just in awe
Of a tiny seed giving us so
Much joy.....
I grew up on my parents 1.5 acer garden.... maybe that's why I became a Botanist lol love it
That plant mama feeling never goes away I hope.
"I like having these abs" 😊. Your sons are adorable. He made my day with that smile!
just started watching your channel. Been watching Daniel Arms ,Homesteady, Sara & Kevin, Justin Rhodes,weed em & Reap.Looking forward to adding you to my list. why don"t you save the worms from the plants for the chickens they love them. We try to feed all things we find while working in the yard to the chickens except slugs!We Have 11 egg chickens, hoping to add two kiko's next year, then a couple pigs after that. We just started our homestead two years ago on 40 acres in western NY. We have more food trees plants and bushes and garden than animals, so far. wish we could have started earlier in life, like most of you! Keep up the good work.
Nature testifies of God's love. It's no wonder so many find refuge in the garden. It was our first home, and the new earth will be as the first, a testimony of God's love.
I think that's why so many people love your channel Jess, I always feel joy and peace when watching you.
Do you feed your garden beds in the fall like Luke from MIgardener? Maybe you could make a video of how you put the beds to sleep! Thanks again for what you do🐞🐝🌻
I live in a hot country that the weather could reach 122 F in summer ,,, Fall is like the spring to most countries so I just started to plant my seeds and I hope they will grow up beautifully like your garden ,, it's so hard to garden in my country because of the heat and poor soil with no rain for years .... sometimes I wish to live in places like where you live .... happy gardening for everyone and yeah seeing your seed germinate will never fail to make me happy
The lettuce you asked about is called Cos Lettuce here in Australia :)
I hear you so much on the chicken destruction in the garden. I completely gave up on mine earlier this year and then a couple weeks ago I went and filmed all of the destruction before I re-mulched it. It was absolutely ridiculous what they do. Your garden still just looks so beautiful! It always does. And NO it isn’t weird you are planning next year already, I’ve been planning things out in my head for weeks now! Will be nice to be able to actually EAT some of the things I grow now that I’ve got the chickens fenced out.
I absolutely love your kids. They are the best, they make me smile every single time 🤗
I think the excitement and astonishment of garden growth moves after years into just a deep satisfaction :)
I am 71 and have been gardening most of my life, it never gets old. I am always amazed that stuff came up, made fruit, or produced an edible root. I love grazing on thinnings, and leafy greens and always feel so lucky that I can.
Hi Jess! After watching this video yesterday, I threw all trepidation aside, went out to the barn, built some planter boxes and am going to give this veggie garden thing a go! My entire life I have dreamt of growing my own food but felt I lacked the space and skill. However, your videos and energy are so inspiring...I just had to join in on this good vibe movement ;) Thank you.
I hope that “feeling” never leaves 🙏💚
Very nice tour. I’m curious, you grow interesting plants that I obviously don’t see in the grocery store. Can you do some videos showing garden to table, what you do with things like noodle beans, or making the tobasco peppers into vinegar for your greens. I am also interested in using other plants medicinally.
Joyce Caughhorn nice suggestion! I’d give that video a thumbs up!
Great video idea
Wow! So many peppers! You could make dried peppers or pepper jars, or pepper powder and give them to friends as a Christmas present in cute decorated mason jars lol.
your garden Is amazing and I enjoyed your tour and your little boy Is so sweet he really got Into the fact that warms were bad and they needed to stop eating mama's broccoli and stomped on them
That’s a huge garden and you’re such a good narrator. I get totally lost in your videos. It’s a welcome break so I thank you for sharing your life 😀 God bless y’all from Wilmington North Carolina
Your little boys are so adorable!!! I have 3 kids and my youngest is 14 years old. I am missing the times when they where babies and under 5 years old. So naturally, I want another baby!
Oh Jess, I just enjoy your channel so much,,,, but your little Benny boy just steals the show !!!! What an adorable little tyke !!!!! So are the rest of your babies but I'm fascinated with how lovable little Ben is !!!! I'm Irene, a 65 year old grand that misses her grands who are with their missionary parents in Peru !!! Love watching yours.
That lettuce mix lettuce looks like Little Gem lettuce, it is my favorite!
Reminds me of a miniature Romaine lettuce.
That's what I was thinking. I planted romaine in my garden and they look like that.
Hey Jess this is Megan from me myself and die I did a raised bed garden like you did and I did two different ones I have a spring garden in a Summergarden and I made my bed enough to feed my family for one year my spring beds are 15 dad‘s and my summer beds are 21 it added up to be about a half acre and gave it plenty of walk spaceI was seeing you Sam my plans that I wrote and love your videos you inspired me to do this for me and my family thank you so much
I feel so lost in the winter too. I was raised in the mountains and was used to snow. We had a very short growing season. Now I live 75 miles south and we have a longer growing season, but nothing like yours. The first frost is last of September or first of October. Last frost is often end of May, first of June or when the snow is off Schaffer's butte!
I love your garden! I just bought a house outside KC, MO. I am designing my garden beds now with your beds as my inspiration. Thanks so much. Keep posting! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Rena Jones
me too! I've learned so much
Yay for a new plot! Happy gardening!
lol your little man is so adorable.. He wanted to make sure that toad had a home.. lol soooo cute...
Germination is so very exciting I agree. You're too cute Jess! The garden still looks beautiful even as winter temps are approaching.
I love germinating seeds. It's the most fun seeing your plants when they first pop out of the soil 😊 I germinate a lot of seeds in a paper towel method first when I need my seeds to germinate a little faster. I cannot wait till my fiance and I can start creating our dream garden and have a small farm one day.
Thanks Jess! Your garden is gorgeous! Hand picking them worms off and using neem oil as a preventative works amazing! Ive been gardening about 7 years and it has worked for many different pests and fungus diseases throughout my garden! It's 100% organic which I love and doesn't kill good bugs in the garden. I only spray neem oil at night so the sun has no chance in burning my leaves and so it doesn't get directly on bees because it can kill them 😊 Living in f.l, we never get a break with pests and fungal diseases/mold so preventative treatment every 7 days is so important. Even through the so called winter we have. Lol
I love when things start germinating or flowering I get so excited. Like a kid in a candy store.
I still feel the excitement when seeds germinate after 45 years of gardening. It's getting to witness the owesomeness of life. It's a closer feeling to GOD and knowing you are part of the circle. Too bad more people don't think they can receive that same rush with working and growing food for their family. Instead they will sit round and complain about how much they can't afford and how expensive quality veggies are when they could raise fantastic ones for next to nothing. There is nothing to compare to fresh green peas eaten in the garden (my toddlers would have a bushel basket half eaten while I was working on getting dinner together.Laughing themselves silly when I went to shell the empty pods.) just recently my asparagus made an appearance, my 14 yr old granddaughter and I enjoyed it right there. What a memory that will be when she has little ones. We are so blessed with our gardens. You are a wonderful inspiration to all Jessie, your enthusiasm shines through. God bless
Your so sweet and I love your joy and heart for gardening:)!!! Beautiful gardening:)! So sorry for the loss.
Thank-you. It's so nice to see green in the garden. My zone 5b garden has bit the dust with a pretty hard freeze 2 weeks ago.
Kay Nolte
Bummer! oh well, time for planning!!! God Bless
Yes, I am planning, and planning. . . .
God I believe uses plants as representatives of our lives. I believe He sets it as an example of the fruit we produce. How much we invest we reap. I have failed so many years as a gardener but this year for the first time saw fruit produced(though minuscule) It did something to my heart. Just as we seek the Lord and read His word and speak it He begi to show us the fruit produced, little by little. He amazes me. I love your heart dear girl and when you said you saw fruit your heart lept. That's exactly what I felt. God Bless you and Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I divinely stumbled upon you.
You are so right!
+Roots and Refuge Farm Ty dear one. you are such an inspiration to me and many others. Continue to keep your eyes upward as you humble yourself. God is in control! I am thankful to have found you as a sister in Christ. persevere and stay focused on Him. Bless you sweet sister!
Jessica, watching from Central Missouri...trending MECCA for homesteads. We moved from the extremely fertile river valley of Nebraska and moved into the land of clay. Everything you shared as your plan for compensating and fixing the clay are all great ideas and will work. We learned that even working with amendments we continued to experience excessive clay. Solution: Purchase bags of gypsum..sprinkle 1/4 -1/2 inch across the tops of the soil, turn the soil and add your other mulches and compost. Miracle in our garden and its a mineral from the earth!!
With regards to the sweet peas, my aunt used to just pick them for the birds, she would pick a bunch of pods after dinner then sit and shuck them on the back porch and hand feed them to the birds, squirrels and skunks. She had regulars that would come around daily...
haha I bought a pack of lettuce at the dollar store, and it came up tomatoes!
Oh goodness!!! 😂😂😂
I would love to see more cooking videos with the vegetable varieties that you grow in your garden next year. I would love it if you would show us how that you cook them and if your kids like the variety or type of vegetable that you grow. I don't eat a lot of veggies and would like to venture out to new things, but do not know how to cook them or how to make them taste good so that myself and family would eat them..lol.
Beautiful Garden, love it. Yes, my Malabar spinach has that same leaf spot with the white center and red ring, I think it's because of not enough air circulation in the plant. Because my Malabar spinach grows right by my back door on my porch I guess it is too much moister on the leaves after watering. Not for sure though. But yes, I've eaten my Malabar spinach with those leave spots on them, it's not harmful really. Gorgeous beans, peas, and peppers there. I've been growing the Mambo (green-colored) Beans from Africa because they are drought tolerant and it tends to get drought-like here in central TX. And they are doing amazing in my container garden! They are duo-purpose beans and they taste sweet as a fresh-eaten green bean and I will be trying to save seeds for next year. So happy for you on all your garden and your beautiful collection of plants. Nothing wrong with having a garden Jungle. Yummy, cabbage rolls sound good right now. I will never get tired of seeing teeny-tiny itty-bitty sprouts and baby plants growing up. I only planted one of those tobascos birds-beak peppers and they are everywhere! Like a small tree! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the worms only liked weeds?
the leaves and flowers and gardens look great....where I live, the leaves are awesome and I am delighted for my 'Kale' has done wonderful, and I think I will have a Purple Cabbage! Even one of my Celery is now sweet...for we had such a hot weather for quite sometime and the celery was so so so bitter, that I almost pulled them, But, now I am so grateful I didn't...My garden is a tiny one compared to yours, but, it is MINE! Thanks for sharing....Sherry :)
I do the same thing! It’s the miracle of life that God puts in those seeds! It never gets old 😊
Wonderful video...I bought some Ashwagandha seeds from bakers creek and had planted them several times and got nothing. Decided to try one more time...got some! Was soooooo excited! I'm going to completely redo my flower gardens in the spring and incorporate lots more herbs and medicinals....
Yay for getting the in-ground garden going! You are inspiring as usual. We are blessed with good soil here on our plot. We do have lots of worms and subsequently MOLES! I just learned they eat worms from one of my kids school books! They haven't damaged my plants yet though, just cause soft spots so far.
Hey Jess, will you do some more homeschool videos soon? This is our first year and I have a 10 &4 Y/O and I find you so calming and inspiring in your videos. I am going without curriculum right now. Much love!
You're son Ben is so adorable and I can tell he loves the garden. So precious. 💖
I enjoyed every second of this video! I've had a time with the worms on my brassicas...grrr! Bt spray has helped get them under control for the most part.
Jess, my hubby and sons put up cattle pannel arches in my garden for me this past weekend! I so wish I could show you a picture! I'm beyond excited for spring but I've got snow and sweet peas germinating to grow on them for now. And I think in some way I'll enjoy the slower pace of fall/winter gardening (in in South Carolina and we have pretty mild winters) but I'm bursting with excitement for this coming spring because you have given me so many great ideas!
Are you in Instagram that you can send a picture? Sounds amazing! Congrats!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm yes! I follow you on IG. I'm Charityzworld...I'll send a pic soon!
Love your videos! And your son eating raw veggies is precious!
Plus I am super excited to try sprouting with the plastic container in West Virginia. Such a great idea. Thanks
Forgot to tell you I tried pickling some radishes. They are fantastic and the zucchini, carrots and onions are just wonderful. Thanks to giving me the idea. I'm going to roast the remaining big round radishes tonight.
Your little boy is just totally adorable🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼
Your little guy is the cutest gardener ever.
Agreed!!
My Dad had a portable pen he moved around in the garden for 5 pigs. He called it his 5 pig tiller. Joel Salatin uses pigs to aerate and till the wood chips in the chicken house where he winters his chickens. He entices them to dig by putting corn in with the wood chips. He claims pigs "will work for corn".
Your garden is beautiful! Love it! And your son is so precious 😍 reminds me of my son, such a good helper 🙂
Not sure if you'll see this. I'm watching everything from the beginning and this is where I am! Anywho, I've had great success keeping cabbage worms off my brassica by regrowing celery bottoms from the grocery store. The moths HATE celery. Start at the end of summer and keep really moist. They'll set flowers for seed too!
Pulled some baby carrots and potatoes yesterday. It never wears off!
I'm in oklahoma and have the soil issues too so I got a load of wood chips over autumn and pray that after a few years I don't have to supplement soil so much and can have much easier soil to work with
You should grow some kohlrabi plants you eat the ball of the plant after you peel it, they are delicious you may want to grow some, if you have ever heard of them, you eat them raw as we always did, when they are younger, when they get to big they get pithy, but they taste like a cross between cabbage and potatoes sort of!
all the persimmons seeds that friends have opened, have spoons in them, which is a sign of a bad winter to come, the plant Indian Ginseng, you may want to protect it a bit more, hoping we don't have a bad winter as many are saying, just sharing what I have been told, I'm up here in Yellville, Thank You for all the infor you share, enjoying your videos
Thank you for this!!
This is my battle cry and I choose this instead of destruction.