Hello from Ireland. 8pm here and I've just come in from my garden. I've been working out there all day and now ready to sit down and enjoy watching yours. Happy watching everybody ❤
Rabbits! I encourage gardeners to get a rabbit. Collect the rabbit poop and immediately toss into garden or potted plants. It doesn’t need to be composted like all other manures and it comes in cute and non-stinky pellets. I pull my weeds and clippings and old plants and feed to the rabbits then the manure feeds the garden. It’s the best fertilizer and it’s free. I’ve been using it for 3 years now and my rabbits are happy.
An older gentleman told me a few weeks ago he grows enough squash for our entire county. So I asked him what he does for squash bugs? He said buys a 50 lb bag of oranges. And puts the orange peels in the ground when he plants the squash! I'm going to test this out I believe he knows what he's doing 😂
Hello from the mountains of Panama! Here's a suggestion for your super abundance of holy basil (or any other prolific volunteers). Take chunks of those seedlings and pot them up to sell at your Farmer's Market on Thursdays. Your community will surely bless you 🙂!
Jess, the story about oak trees blesses me so much! I am continually inspired by how important legacy is to you. I feel kindred in that. When we own a home someday, we plan to plant fruit trees as a sign to our children of how important legacy is. That our children and their children may eat the literal fruits of our labor if they are good stewards to care for the trees.
@sabrinaa4872 nevermind. After clicking your name, I see your other comments on this channel are also a bit passive aggressive. I hope others can see that before you delete them. The community on this channel is the most positive and life-giving I have experienced on TH-cam. I hope you stay and can genuinely enjoy, instead of calling someone or something that is very wholesome, "weird."
After your tragic experience with compost in your high tunnel, I refuse to buy compost. Instead I have volunteered to cut the Boy Scout playing field for free as long as I can have the clippings. I know they don’t use anything on the field. Today I got 8 wagon loads of clippings. Now I add chips of wood and wood shavings that I know the origin of and top it off with my chicken coop cleanings. Toss regularly and voila I have compost for my garden in the spring. This year I had about 10 yards of beautiful compost that I had complete confidence in and my garden is beautiful. I am sorry your high tunnels suffered so badly but your experience was my wake-up call. I am also growing my own worm castings. It’s definitely the more labor intensive way to farm but as you can well attest, it’s heartbreaking to see all your hard work go down the drain because of something you didn’t even know was a threat.
Omg Jess...I love the story about the tree seeds. I have been a gardener for 40 years and just started growing trees from seed. It is incredible to watch such a beautiful majestic creature such as a tree grow from a tiny seed. Thanks for that memory. May the blessings of God continue to touch your homestead.
Thank you for sharing! My almost two year old son loves watching these with me! He kept trying to copy all the different plants you were mentioning, and it absolutely warmed my heart hearing him say, “Cucumber! Calendula! Plaaaaants!” in his little toddler dialect. 💕
White icicle radishes planted with your squash will keep squash bugs away. I’ve been planting them with my squash here in Oklahoma like this for 20+ years and IT WORKS! I never have squash bugs! I let the squash come up 2-3 weeks before planting the radishes as the radish grow faster. I plant them intermingled with the squash. It works will all squash varieties!
I pull a few and eat. I leave at least 3-4 with each plant and let them go to seed. But I cut the seed heads off and keep them for next year. Once they go to seed, you shouldn’t eat them. They don’t taste very good, are tough, and from what I’ve been told, are toxic after going to seed. How true the last one is…I’m not certain; I just don’t take any chances 😂
I give my squash about 2 weeks growing time once they pop up out of the ground (I direct sow) and then I sprinkle radish seeds in around them. If I thin them out, and there is a little hole, I drop some down in it. I swear by this-I have only had squash bugs once and it’s when I couldn’t find the white icicle radishes! And they were so bad 😖
Oh... How lovely...and the Oak Tree story is so heart touching... You are a romantic soul and I can so feel it... I have a huge Oak tree in my front yard and I love it. Bless you and yours!
Fennel is amazing roasted when sliced kind of thin. It makes a lovely accompaniment with white beans and olive oil on pasta. It's great raw shaved thin as a salad with olive oil, parmesan optional. However you serve it, save some of the soft new growth to use as a garnish. The seeds are delicious either dried or fresh.
Best part of the garden tour was watching Bear follow you everywhere you went. He loves you so much and it kind of breaks my heart to see he is getting up in age and seems to be slowing down. Such a sweetheart.
Ma’am, I think God met with you in your garden while eating that cucumber. I felt the Holy Spirit. Yes, we get to eat food we grew in our yard! What a freedom and divine miracle He gave us in growing food. A literal gift from the Creator of that seed. Amen and amen.
Homestead Hart lost an entire crop due to Black Kow killing the entire field. I lost all my tomatoes (planted with eggs like you did) due to a new bag of Black Kow. I think you hit the nail on the head, they are selling compost that is not ready, affecting tons of gardeners. Thank you for posting!
Jess, I love how you put squashes in all different places in the garden. I've been doing that with my peppers, tomatoes and melons to see where they grow the best. Because of you I've planted some sweet pea flower seeds. Can't wait for them to flower. Thank you for the lovely garden tour!❤
I agree with the bagged soil issue. I have some where the top of the container looks like it was filled with paper mache. It’s like clay on top with wood chips. I finally bought a compost tumbler so I could take some control of my soil.
My husband and I attended the 2024 Homestead Festival. We had hoped to meet you, but know this season has been very busy for y’all! We are on our way to Myrtle Beach to meet up with family, and decided to stop by and see Beulah Coffee Roasters. It looks amazing! Not gonna lie, we had hoped to run into you there! Thank you for inspiring us to garden and homestead. Batesburg truly is a gem, and I believe you and Miah will impact it in beautiful ways. Thank you for always shining God’s light! We bless you, until next time.
I always just love that story about your families longtime owned homes and the oak trees. I remember the video where you generously took us back there with you and I am so happy that you’re planting those oak trees outside your home that Miah builds❣️❣️
Kevin at Epic Gardening put out a video today doing an experiment testing 14 types of potting soil. Fascinating and proves it can absolutely just be the soil. I, of course, had purchased one of the lowest ranking ones on his experiment. I will be amending like crazy.
Girl I didn't even PLANT cucamelon seeds and they grew with something else I planted 3 years ago. I am STILL getting volunteers 😂and they aren't even in the same area that the original grouping was. Between those and all of the volunteer pineapple ground cherries we will have snackies for a while! Your asparagus jungle is just STUNNING!
My Sweet Peas are about 4” and will last until the Fall if I keep picking them blooms , my grandma always had them and I got my love for them from her and plant them every year .
😊❤ thank you Jess you are so awesome and so many ways and I love seeing your beautiful garden and your beautiful face thanks for going live and enjoy your inspiration so much lots of love from Michigan 🥰 I have been watching you since 6 years ago and you have bloomed so much and touched my heart though gardening!!💚
As a Colorado gardener I’m here to say gardening here is unlike anywhere else. We get hot beautiful weather in Marchish only to then get snow in April and May often times. In August our tomatoes are just starting to really produce.
I hear you! I'm at 9,100ft here in CO. Officially, we don't have a last/first frost date for our zip code because cool air settles in our mountain valley and there is a chance all summer. I watch the forecast daily to know when I need to throw on frost cloth - which I also keep handy for sudden afternoon hail !! Multiple times last summer, I ran out to cover the garden while getting pelted with hail. 😅 I desperately want to move so that I can have top soil and a growing season more than 100 days!
I had 3plants last year in the springs on my patio, were doing so well then got wrecked from hail 😩 I think that's why I didn't plant any this year, Colorado weather is very whacky and frustrating
Sounds like Scotland! Our day temps are high 20s (celcius) but our lows overnight can still be frost. My tomatoes will still be green come harvest time (but still tastier than shop-bought!)
The story of the oak trees totally made my heart swell and tears come to my eyes, it was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing that. Just an fyi: for squash bugs we use Beneficial Nematodes. They're amazing! Loved the tour. Makes me jealous at how much rain you get. I'm on the western slope of Colorado where we avg 100 degrees every day from June through September, with less than 15% humidity and absolutely no rain unless it's a short week of "monsoon" season. You're absolutely right that the rain makes all the difference.
It's so good to hear that there is a soil issue...I bought 2 new green stalks and filled them with organic omri certified potting soil and new strawberries. 2/3s of them died..grrr
I loved your oak tree story❤ And I'm growing Barry's Crazy Cherry's for the first time this year🤞 Along with your favorites from Wild Boar Farms....so excited 😁
I'm SO glad both trees are doing well, I recall the vid of your visit to your family home and how much it meant to you to carry those trees to your new home. It made me think of the pioneers bringing seed from home across the country/prairies.
I planted big kahuna bush beans this year....I was shocked by how much they produced and are still producing even though we're well over 100 here in Phoenix now...I just canned my 6th quart of beans today from about 25 plants
This was a pleasant place to be with you Jess, and all here today!! Thanks for sharing your Gorgeous Creations with us in this manner to mingle together!! Love ya, my friend 💞💐👩🌾🌿🌱🪴
So cool that you are growing Kibbler okra! The tours of Dr. Kibbler’s gardens on Honeybee Hollow Garden’s channel absolutely make me swoon! He is a true treasure with such a wealth of knowledge about plants and gardening.
Please keep us posted on the soil. I am in Lexington County also and have purchased 25 bags of Baccto. Everything looks amazing and lush. Rain does the ground good.
Another great tour Jess, and I must you are looking very healthy again, I Praise God for that! Your Cottage Garden looks great from any angle, so it doesn't matter, I'm still happily and lovingly jealous of it. I think I read that the rain is so great because it brings atmospheric nitrogen with it in the drops. Grow Blue Hubbard squash about 20 feet away from the ones you want. The pests like them better than the ones you want, so it's a trap crop. 100% agree with you on the soil issue in the Green Stalks. When I first started my raised beds, I filled them with a bagged organic raised bed mix that was still very course. By the second year, it was way more broken down and only needed a top dressing of an organic compost mix that was at least a year old in the bag.
Here in Fairhope, Alabama I put 70% shade cloth over my beds last year. The sun scorched the eggplants! Fortunately, I brought them inside and they were fine on my plate. 😀
I'm from S. Indiana. You have inspired me to grow Paul Robeson, Dr whyces, and big rainbow. I winter sowed them in milk jugs. I cannot wait to taste them.
Sweet Jess, Your garden is gorgeous. Like you, I love volunteer plants. Our humidity has been high, and so has our temperatures. Today, 101 degrees, with a heat index 110 degrees. We don't live in AZ, we live in central Oklahoma. Next weekend we'll be installing fence rail in cement in order to hang 40% sun shades to cover my beds. Stay cool, and keep the garden videos coming😊
This year I couldn’t buy soil because we’re having money problems but I make my own compost and even though it wasn’t ready I put my same exact dwarf tomatoes as yours about a week or so after you planted yours and I mixed in old soil from my green stalk from last year and some happy frog grow big fertilizer and they are huge! They maybe 3ft tall they don’t look very dwarfy to me lol. All that bagged soil I bought last year sucked until this year I added my compost to it. Even my peppers I put in pots are huge! The tomatoes I got are tomarrilo dwarf.
Oh beautiful!!!!! Please send some of that weather my way northern Canada it’s 2° here! So cold I haven’t even planted my garden yet three weeks behind schedule🥺😳 it’s a sweet pea flower kind of year here so that’s pretty nice♥️
I'm in Upstate NY, zone 6, my chamomile bloomed this week! Started it from seed in a milk jug greenhouse on March 1st when there was snow ❄️ I love seeing where everyone is at, gets me excited for June! 🥰
Thank you so very much again Jess for a video that just makes me feel good and happy. For getting to see your garden tour. I know right now your struggling with your health a bit, yet you have such a glow about you today in this video. Just like true joy and peace. It’s contagious because I feel it too😃♥️🌻🌞🌈
Oh my gosh!!!….im not exaggerating when I tell you that I check my tube everyday, sometimes multiple times a day to see if you’ve uploaded anything new!! Thank you for all the education that you’re constantly feeding us! Thank you for your time, and for the love, and genuineness you convey in every single video! ❤❤
Hey Jess, I remember your visiting your ancestral home so happy to hear that your Oaks are still alive! Looking forward to seeing your cut flower greenhouse in full bloom! 🌺🌸💚💖🤗
Jess i once grew sweet peas at a place we lived i just got them looking beautiful and blooming and the building maintenance came and pulled my beautiful flowers out and stuffed them all in a garbage can, i was in tears and shock for days.... Enjoy your beauties i love your gardens, thank you for the tour🙏💕🥰
when you said you went back and grabbed some acorns I started to cry. What a beautiful story and beautiful garden. I wanted to visit when I was on my way back from Albuquerque. Drove back stayed in GA visiting a friend. Went through S Carolina and kicked myself for not contacting you so I can see your garden. Maybe there was a reason. God bless you and your family.
Your happy drizzled upon garden is breathtaking. I love holy basil leaves and thin slices of lemon in my drinking water in summer. I am so blessed to have perennial Thai basil too, from a packet of mixed heirloom basil seeds.
Jess- so so agree, there is definitely a potting soil issue this early that is bigger than ever. Frustrating, but learning to deal with it with amendments. Thanks for you comments and willingness to research and teach us more about it….like you did with the bad dirt you got a couple years an ago. So appreciate it!
I am glad you covered the new soil issue. Northern Ohio here and I thought I was messing up.....same issues like you. Thank you Jess. I love your whole set up there.
Thank you Jess for sharing your garden with us. I loved seeing your Dinner Plate Dahlia. My grandson grows Dahlias for the first t8me this year. I need to find him some Dinner Plate ones. Gorgeous! I remember the video where you went to visit your Grandparents home. I am so happy you are growing a couple of Oak trees from the acorns. That, does bless my heart.❤️🤟✝️🙏🌳
Jess! You are the one who has inspired me to grow okra here in my New England garden. 😊I didn’t like okra but after tasting fresh I am excited to harvest it this year.😮
Fennel is fabulous with sausage. I’ll chop it up and throw it in pasta sauce with sausage, onions, garlic and then finish it with pecorino Romano cheese and a splash of cream.
We just chop up the fennel bulbs along with some other veg roughly chopped (potatoes, carrots, onions etc), drizzle with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and roast them in the oven. Delicious.
Thanks! I have been wondering how to use too-I saved a sad little seedling from its death at a nursery and now it’s huge and I didn’t know how to use it!
I have missed your garden tours! Yep... humidity in the south is something else. You've inspired me.... the next time it rains I'm doing a garden tour myself.😊
Jess it is a joy to see your smile also a joy watching you eat from your garden. Hardly can wait to see your garden in July and August. 🫂 thank you for the walk❤
🎉🎉 Garden Tour Season!!🎉🎉 It's my favorite! I had my first volunteer plant ever! I felt like I won the lottery!! It was a flower so no free food yet but still a win in my book. Love all of your content. You have brought me a deep love of real food and learning how to grow it and brought my mom along as well. We both thank you. Victory tastes So Good!! ❤❤❤
Your Canna Lilies are looking great. Years ago at a different house where I used to live I had Red Canna Lilies grow up to the kitchen window which attracted hummingbirds. What a delight to be at my kitchen sink working on something and see hummingbirds!
Oh my goshh!! I live in N Louisiana in Farmerville about 45 minutes or less from El Dorado, Arkansas ❤ I love watching you so much. I only wish I could truly express how much you have helped me grow and flourish.
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Hello from Ireland. 8pm here and I've just come in from my garden. I've been working out there all day and now ready to sit down and enjoy watching yours. Happy watching everybody ❤
Hey from sligo
Erin go braugh.❤
Rabbits! I encourage gardeners to get a rabbit. Collect the rabbit poop and immediately toss into garden or potted plants. It doesn’t need to be composted like all other manures and it comes in cute and non-stinky pellets. I pull my weeds and clippings and old plants and feed to the rabbits then the manure feeds the garden. It’s the best fertilizer and it’s free. I’ve been using it for 3 years now and my rabbits are happy.
Yes! We used a natural small wood shaving for their bedding so it could just be thrown down with it and also give a bit of mulch.
An older gentleman told me a few weeks ago he grows enough squash for our entire county. So I asked him what he does for squash bugs? He said buys a 50 lb bag of oranges. And puts the orange peels in the ground when he plants the squash! I'm going to test this out I believe he knows what he's doing 😂
Does he bury the peels?
@@johnna4487 Yes Ma'am
there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes. You are rich! You have both!
Hello from the mountains of Panama! Here's a suggestion for your super abundance of holy basil (or any other prolific volunteers). Take chunks of those seedlings and pot them up to sell at your Farmer's Market on Thursdays. Your community will surely bless you 🙂!
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Jess, the story about oak trees blesses me so much! I am continually inspired by how important legacy is to you. I feel kindred in that. When we own a home someday, we plan to plant fruit trees as a sign to our children of how important legacy is. That our children and their children may eat the literal fruits of our labor if they are good stewards to care for the trees.
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I'm glad you liked that, I personally find it very weird.
@@sabrinaa4872 why do you find it weird?
@sabrinaa4872 nevermind. After clicking your name, I see your other comments on this channel are also a bit passive aggressive. I hope others can see that before you delete them. The community on this channel is the most positive and life-giving I have experienced on TH-cam. I hope you stay and can genuinely enjoy, instead of calling someone or something that is very wholesome, "weird."
@@jIlLiAnganz Or we can be different and don't need to be exactly the same?
After your tragic experience with compost in your high tunnel, I refuse to buy compost. Instead I have volunteered to cut the Boy Scout playing field for free as long as I can have the clippings. I know they don’t use anything on the field. Today I got 8 wagon loads of clippings. Now I add chips of wood and wood shavings that I know the origin of and top it off with my chicken coop cleanings. Toss regularly and voila I have compost for my garden in the spring. This year I had about 10 yards of beautiful compost that I had complete confidence in and my garden is beautiful. I am sorry your high tunnels suffered so badly but your experience was my wake-up call. I am also growing my own worm castings. It’s definitely the more labor intensive way to farm but as you can well attest, it’s heartbreaking to see all your hard work go down the drain because of something you didn’t even know was a threat.
I love your oak tree history/story!! How cool is that 🥰!! Can’t wait to see them grow along with you and your family.
Omg Jess...I love the story about the tree seeds. I have been a gardener for 40 years and just started growing trees from seed. It is incredible to watch such a beautiful majestic creature such as a tree grow from a tiny seed. Thanks for that memory. May the blessings of God continue to touch your homestead.
Thank you for sharing! My almost two year old son loves watching these with me! He kept trying to copy all the different plants you were mentioning, and it absolutely warmed my heart hearing him say, “Cucumber! Calendula! Plaaaaants!” in his little toddler dialect. 💕
Bear is such a good dog.
White icicle radishes planted with your squash will keep squash bugs away. I’ve been planting them with my squash here in Oklahoma like this for 20+ years and IT WORKS! I never have squash bugs!
I let the squash come up 2-3 weeks before planting the radishes as the radish grow faster. I plant them intermingled with the squash. It works will all squash varieties!
Thank you! Do you ever pull the radishes? Or just let them mature and seed out?
I pull a few and eat. I leave at least 3-4 with each plant and let them go to seed. But I cut the seed heads off and keep them for next year. Once they go to seed, you shouldn’t eat them. They don’t taste very good, are tough, and from what I’ve been told, are toxic after going to seed. How true the last one is…I’m not certain; I just don’t take any chances 😂
I am going to try it.
I give my squash about 2 weeks growing time once they pop up out of the ground (I direct sow) and then I sprinkle radish seeds in around them. If I thin them out, and there is a little hole, I drop some down in it. I swear by this-I have only had squash bugs once and it’s when I couldn’t find the white icicle radishes! And they were so bad 😖
Thank you, trying this, planted random radish seeds around them now til I get the white icicle ones
Oh... How lovely...and the Oak Tree story is so heart touching... You are a romantic soul and I can so feel it... I have a huge Oak tree in my front yard and I love it. Bless you and yours!
Fennel is amazing roasted when sliced kind of thin. It makes a lovely accompaniment with white beans and olive oil on pasta. It's great raw shaved thin as a salad with olive oil, parmesan optional. However you serve it, save some of the soft new growth to use as a garnish. The seeds are delicious either dried or fresh.
Best part of the garden tour was watching Bear follow you everywhere you went. He loves you so much and it kind of breaks my heart to see he is getting up in age and seems to be slowing down. Such a sweetheart.
Ma’am, I think God met with you in your garden while eating that cucumber. I felt the Holy Spirit. Yes, we get to eat food we grew in our yard! What a freedom and divine miracle He gave us in growing food. A literal gift from the Creator of that seed. Amen and amen.
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Homestead Hart lost an entire crop due to Black Kow killing the entire field. I lost all my tomatoes (planted with eggs like you did) due to a new bag of Black Kow. I think you hit the nail on the head, they are selling compost that is not ready, affecting tons of gardeners. Thank you for posting!
Jess, I love how you put squashes in all different places in the garden. I've been doing that with my peppers, tomatoes and melons to see where they grow the best. Because of you I've planted some sweet pea flower seeds. Can't wait for them to flower. Thank you for the lovely garden tour!❤
I agree with the bagged soil issue. I have some where the top of the container looks like it was filled with paper mache. It’s like clay on top with wood chips. I finally bought a compost tumbler so I could take some control of my soil.
We'd all love a tiny cucumber from your garden!!!
My husband and I attended the 2024 Homestead Festival. We had hoped to meet you, but know this season has been very busy for y’all! We are on our way to Myrtle Beach to meet up with family, and decided to stop by and see Beulah Coffee Roasters. It looks amazing! Not gonna lie, we had hoped to run into you there! Thank you for inspiring us to garden and homestead. Batesburg truly is a gem, and I believe you and Miah will impact it in beautiful ways. Thank you for always shining God’s light! We bless you, until next time.
I always just love that story about your families longtime owned homes and the oak trees. I remember the video where you generously took us back there with you and I am so happy that you’re planting those oak trees outside your home that Miah builds❣️❣️
Kevin at Epic Gardening put out a video today doing an experiment testing 14 types of potting soil. Fascinating and proves it can absolutely just be the soil. I, of course, had purchased one of the lowest ranking ones on his experiment. I will be amending like crazy.
Your gardens are looking great, they are the bees knees.
Girl I didn't even PLANT cucamelon seeds and they grew with something else I planted 3 years ago. I am STILL getting volunteers 😂and they aren't even in the same area that the original grouping was. Between those and all of the volunteer pineapple ground cherries we will have snackies for a while! Your asparagus jungle is just STUNNING!
Your cucamelon tubers may have survived the winter! In their native land, they are actually perennial ❤
Love a garden tour! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
My Sweet Peas are about 4” and will last until the Fall if I keep picking them blooms , my grandma always had them and I got my love for them from her and plant them every year .
Beautiful Holy Basil! Wish i could buy some❣️your entire garden is lively esp. those dahlias & banana plant🏵️☘️
High Scent sweet peas - very fragrant!
I remember when you told the houses goodbye!! I cried
😊❤ thank you Jess you are so awesome and so many ways and I love seeing your beautiful garden and your beautiful face thanks for going live and enjoy your inspiration so much lots of love from Michigan 🥰 I have been watching you since 6 years ago and you have bloomed so much and touched my heart though gardening!!💚
As a Colorado gardener I’m here to say gardening here is unlike anywhere else. We get hot beautiful weather in Marchish only to then get snow in April and May often times. In August our tomatoes are just starting to really produce.
I hear you! I'm at 9,100ft here in CO. Officially, we don't have a last/first frost date for our zip code because cool air settles in our mountain valley and there is a chance all summer. I watch the forecast daily to know when I need to throw on frost cloth - which I also keep handy for sudden afternoon hail !! Multiple times last summer, I ran out to cover the garden while getting pelted with hail. 😅 I desperately want to move so that I can have top soil and a growing season more than 100 days!
I’m in southern Colorado and I totally get you.
Just above you in the Canadian Rockies, I hear you!
I had 3plants last year in the springs on my patio, were doing so well then got wrecked from hail 😩 I think that's why I didn't plant any this year, Colorado weather is very whacky and frustrating
Sounds like Scotland! Our day temps are high 20s (celcius) but our lows overnight can still be frost. My tomatoes will still be green come harvest time (but still tastier than shop-bought!)
I had a tiny cucumber yesterday and it was glorious!
The story of the oak trees totally made my heart swell and tears come to my eyes, it was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing that. Just an fyi: for squash bugs we use Beneficial Nematodes. They're amazing! Loved the tour. Makes me jealous at how much rain you get. I'm on the western slope of Colorado where we avg 100 degrees every day from June through September, with less than 15% humidity and absolutely no rain unless it's a short week of "monsoon" season. You're absolutely right that the rain makes all the difference.
It's so good to hear that there is a soil issue...I bought 2 new green stalks and filled them with organic omri certified potting soil and new strawberries. 2/3s of them died..grrr
Jess I did the same thing with lemon trees before my grandma’s house was sold I picked 2 lemons and grew a lemon tree from seeds from her tree
I loved your oak tree story❤ And I'm growing Barry's Crazy Cherry's for the first time this year🤞 Along with your favorites from Wild Boar Farms....so excited 😁
Hi Jess🫶Bless you for garden touring with us in this heat. Im in Northeast Texas and heat index is 103.🥵
I'm SO glad both trees are doing well, I recall the vid of your visit to your family home and how much it meant to you to carry those trees to your new home. It made me think of the pioneers bringing seed from home across the country/prairies.
29:32 This. Favourite moment of this video.
Your genuine appreciation for real food. 🥰
These are the moments when we say “Worth it.”.
I planted big kahuna bush beans this year....I was shocked by how much they produced and are still producing even though we're well over 100 here in Phoenix now...I just canned my 6th quart of beans today from about 25 plants
I wish you could give me a cucumber too. I can almost taste it. I agree that the best food is what you grow and munch on in the garden.
I’m in Northern California sweet peas are my absolute favorite flower the scent is outrageously delicious smelling!
I remember the video when you revived those oak trees ❤❤
This was a pleasant place to be with you Jess, and all here today!! Thanks for sharing your Gorgeous Creations with us in this manner to mingle together!! Love ya, my friend 💞💐👩🌾🌿🌱🪴
You could harvest and dry the Tulsi and sell it as tea at your coffee shop or farmers market.
So cool that you are growing Kibbler okra! The tours of Dr. Kibbler’s gardens on Honeybee Hollow Garden’s channel absolutely make me swoon! He is a true treasure with such a wealth of knowledge about plants and gardening.
thats so interesting about new potting soil & ammended soil.
Hello from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Today is our last frost date!
Happy Planting!! 🎉
Hello from the Thumb!
Irises in that waterery area would vw awesome
Please keep us posted on the soil. I am in Lexington County also and have purchased 25
bags of Baccto. Everything looks amazing and lush. Rain does the ground good.
I am growing dahlia from seeds this year. Purchased seeds from floret. Floret is an incredible resource. So fascinating creating new flowers from seed
Another great tour Jess, and I must you are looking very healthy again, I Praise God for that! Your Cottage Garden looks great from any angle, so it doesn't matter, I'm still happily and lovingly jealous of it. I think I read that the rain is so great because it brings atmospheric nitrogen with it in the drops.
Grow Blue Hubbard squash about 20 feet away from the ones you want. The pests like them better than the ones you want, so it's a trap crop.
100% agree with you on the soil issue in the Green Stalks. When I first started my raised beds, I filled them with a bagged organic raised bed mix that was still very course. By the second year, it was way more broken down and only needed a top dressing of an organic compost mix that was at least a year old in the bag.
Here in Fairhope, Alabama I put 70% shade cloth over my beds last year. The sun scorched the eggplants! Fortunately, I brought them inside and they were fine on my plate. 😀
Good idea...my peppers are already feeling sunburned in NC. I didn't even think about the eggplant.❤
“freshly quenched garden!” Perfect description of what we’re experiencing here, too! Amazing growth!
One dinner plate Dalia makes a stunning table centerpiece just by itself! Beautiful!❤ Blessings!❤
You know Jess, you could freeze dry all that basil, make basil salt, a perfect product for market or in a nice container a nice gift:))
Peter out. Oklahoman here. Havn't heard that in a while. You are always a must have to watch. Love Bev from Oklahoma
I'm from S. Indiana. You have inspired me to grow Paul Robeson, Dr whyces, and big rainbow. I winter sowed them in milk jugs. I cannot wait to taste them.
Amazing update of your garden. Interesting with the self sown food to learn how better the flavour. Great job. God bless 🙏😘
Bear ALWAYS behaves himself;)
HA! I said that out loud to myself ;-)
Sweet Jess, Your garden is gorgeous. Like you, I love volunteer plants. Our humidity has been high, and so has our temperatures. Today, 101 degrees, with a heat index 110 degrees. We don't live in AZ, we live in central Oklahoma. Next weekend we'll be installing fence rail in cement in order to hang 40% sun shades to cover my beds. Stay cool, and keep the garden videos coming😊
Oh my goodness! The gardens have really exploded in a fantastic way! Thanks for sharing Jess! Have a blessed day!❤
This year I couldn’t buy soil because we’re having money problems but I make my own compost and even though it wasn’t ready I put my same exact dwarf tomatoes as yours about a week or so after you planted yours and I mixed in old soil from my green stalk from last year and some happy frog grow big fertilizer and they are huge! They maybe 3ft tall they don’t look very dwarfy to me lol. All that bagged soil I bought last year sucked until this year I added my compost to it. Even my peppers I put in pots are huge! The tomatoes I got are tomarrilo dwarf.
Oh beautiful!!!!! Please send some of that weather my way northern Canada it’s 2° here! So cold I haven’t even planted my garden yet three weeks behind schedule🥺😳 it’s a sweet pea flower kind of year here so that’s pretty nice♥️
I'm in Upstate NY, zone 6, my chamomile bloomed this week! Started it from seed in a milk jug greenhouse on March 1st when there was snow ❄️ I love seeing where everyone is at, gets me excited for June! 🥰
The acorns from the trees from your childhood is the best idea to take a piece of home 🥰
I planted silver slicers this year just from watching you. Can't wait till I'm munching too😊
Thank you so very much again Jess for a video that just makes me feel good and happy. For getting to see your garden tour. I know right now your struggling with your health a bit, yet you have such a glow about you today in this video. Just like true joy and peace. It’s contagious because I feel it too😃♥️🌻🌞🌈
Oh my gosh!!!….im not exaggerating when I tell you that I check my tube everyday, sometimes multiple times a day to see if you’ve uploaded anything new!! Thank you for all the education that you’re constantly feeding us! Thank you for your time, and for the love, and genuineness you convey in every single video! ❤❤
Hey Jess, I remember your visiting your ancestral home so happy to hear that your Oaks are still alive! Looking forward to seeing your cut flower greenhouse in full bloom! 🌺🌸💚💖🤗
thnx for sharing beautiful lady. I always love seeing what you are growing. I am a believer in the Tulsi plant. It's an amazing plant
Jess i once grew sweet peas at a place we lived i just got them looking beautiful and blooming and the building maintenance came and pulled my beautiful flowers out and stuffed them all in a garbage can, i was in tears and shock for days.... Enjoy your beauties i love your gardens, thank you for the tour🙏💕🥰
I'm so bummed to have missed the live chat today. #cheflife Thank you for sharing your garden with us!
when you said you went back and grabbed some acorns I started to cry. What a beautiful story and beautiful garden. I wanted to visit when I was on my way back from Albuquerque. Drove back stayed in GA visiting a friend. Went through S Carolina and kicked myself for not contacting you so I can see your garden. Maybe there was a reason. God bless you and your family.
Your happy drizzled upon garden is breathtaking. I love holy basil leaves and thin slices of lemon in my drinking water in summer. I am so blessed to have perennial Thai basil too, from a packet of mixed heirloom basil seeds.
Love that garden.🌻🪴
Jess- so so agree, there is definitely a potting soil issue this early that is bigger than ever. Frustrating, but learning to deal with it with amendments. Thanks for you comments and willingness to research and teach us more about it….like you did with the bad dirt you got a couple years an ago. So appreciate it!
I am glad you covered the new soil issue. Northern Ohio here and I thought I was messing up.....same issues like you. Thank you Jess. I love your whole set up there.
Looking so lush and green! Thanks for resisting the cucumber's siren call to finish the tour Jess! 😁
You bring a smile to my face.... your reaction to the silver slicer is the best! Love the garden this year.
Thank you Jess for sharing your garden with us. I loved seeing your Dinner Plate Dahlia. My grandson grows Dahlias for the first t8me this year. I need to find him some Dinner Plate ones. Gorgeous! I remember the video where you went to visit your Grandparents home. I am so happy you are growing a couple of Oak trees from the acorns. That, does bless my heart.❤️🤟✝️🙏🌳
Seeing that pink green stalk makes my heart so happy.
Hi Jess. You should go on Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg podcast as a guest sometime.
Jess! You are the one who has inspired me to grow okra here in my New England garden. 😊I didn’t like okra but after tasting fresh I am excited to harvest it this year.😮
I love your garden tours! Your garden looks great!
Fennel is fabulous with sausage. I’ll chop it up and throw it in pasta sauce with sausage, onions, garlic and then finish it with pecorino Romano cheese and a splash of cream.
We just chop up the fennel bulbs along with some other veg roughly chopped (potatoes, carrots, onions etc), drizzle with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and roast them in the oven. Delicious.
Thanks! I have been wondering how to use too-I saved a sad little seedling from its death at a nursery and now it’s huge and I didn’t know how to use it!
I have missed your garden tours! Yep... humidity in the south is something else.
You've inspired me.... the next time it rains I'm doing a garden tour myself.😊
Jess it is a joy to see your smile also a joy watching you eat from your garden. Hardly can wait to see your garden in July and August. 🫂 thank you for the walk❤
🎉🎉 Garden Tour Season!!🎉🎉
It's my favorite! I had my first volunteer plant ever! I felt like I won the lottery!! It was a flower so no free food yet but still a win in my book. Love all of your content. You have brought me a deep love of real food and learning how to grow it and brought my mom along as well. We both thank you. Victory tastes So Good!! ❤❤❤
My cucumbers are in full production and everyday my kids eat their fill, and my son always says "way better than store bought cucumbers"
I totqlly want to watch this in real time but im working...so excited for my after work tv time ❤🎉
Your Canna Lilies are looking great. Years ago at a different house where I used to live I had Red Canna Lilies grow up to the kitchen window which attracted hummingbirds. What a delight to be at my kitchen sink working on something and see hummingbirds!
Behind? Jess, remember where you came from! Some folks are just starting 😉.
Great fennel recipe! Sourkraut with fennel, carrot, horseradish, green and purple cabbage and fennel seeds. SO GOOD!
I remember that Oak tree video..when you went to those family homes
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Oh my goshh!! I live in N Louisiana in Farmerville about 45 minutes or less from El Dorado, Arkansas ❤ I love watching you so much. I only wish I could truly express how much you have helped me grow and flourish.
I miss seeing you harvest things and showing the harvest. 🙂
I promise…..Your garden tours have to be some of the best videos on YT 🌱 🌺 🥒 🍓