I loved your devotional yesterday. I don't remember hearing yours was just a gardening channel. And I for one appreciate your sharing with us. Let's just leave negative comments aside and concentrate on the positive ones.
Thank you. You make a dead and dying garden feel full of life. To find the hidden survivors and love them. To care for the dead appropriately..feed to animals, compost or burn. You stay dedicated year round and demonstrate to others what gardening should be. Truly inspirational.
I’m watching you from Seattle. Thanks for taking time to share your garden and your life with your family!! Your love of Jesus just shines through you especially when in your garden. Blessings!!! 💗🌼🌻🍁🍂🌻💗
We love that you take us through the garden and teach as you go... This style has taught us so much and definitely makes us feel more prepared as we go out into our garden. Thank you for sharing... and YES!! We would love to see videos about what you do with your harvest!! Simple recipes are the best, especially when you're so busy working on the farm, in the garden, and parenting! We're always up to see how other people are cooking :D
Jess, I did a tub greenhouse after seeing your video. I am in PA and I used the tub on an elevated raised bed. It is surrounded by 8 inches of snow and the baby plants are still growing. I did knock the snow off the top. So far in PA its doing good.
You are so approachable in talking about your garden and gardening experience, I'm very optimistic about starting my garden next year! The editing and music on your vids are also relaxing :)
Snow is great insulation. It's when the snow hardens into ice there is a problem. So you can grow salad boxes in below freezing temps with a thick enough cover/ good cold frame, and some heating coils. You just clear away snow if you know temps are coming that will freeze the snow into ice. February is our coldest month, and we can get temps as low as -40°F (Thank you Canada 😂) I love Kale. I make a horseradish vinaigrette and shave some fresh parm cheese on it to enjoy raw, I'll toss some in most of my soups. I also eat spinach or kale with some seasoned beans, and a fried, or poached egg on top. As always, thank you for opening up your life. You have been an incredible source of light, and inspiration for me this passed year. Really, the words thank you just aren't quite adequate enough to express the gratitude I feel having found your channel.
"Quit being a lion!" I love it! Made me laugh out loud. We have too many cats, they think they're a pride. Thank you for the info on what plants are good in cold weather. I was trying a fall garden this year but my chickens got in the garden and harvested everything for themselves. Beasts! I'm totally looking forward to your cooking videos. I grew swiss chard and kale this year (BOTH DID GREAT IN STRAW BALES!). I love kale but I've never had Swiss chard. I saw Justin Rhodes cook it with eggs, so I tried that. Oh my Gosh it was good. I never would have imagined. Anyway, having the full circle on planting, growing, harvesting and then preparing will be so helpful! I really loved my garden this year, I felt empowered by all the information from the Homesteader TH-cam community that it wasn't overwhelming. It was pure joy and we saw and enjoyed the benefits of our efforts.
I truly love these posts, I live in the uk and I have such a tiny garden and an even smaller balcony so seeing your beautiful garden even in winter is so inspirational. I can’t wait to see what you have planned for next spring.xx
Hi Jess, Arkie up north from you in Benton county. All my stuff bit the dust as well with this freeze...not normal. Just found you a few months back and enjoy watching folks in my area. Luv watching the garden through the seasons. Stay warm and plan for next season. God bless
I'm in zone 5. The hardiest thing I have found so far in "Winterbore" kale. It survives all winter happily uncovered, and can even put on growth if you get a mid winter warm spell. The seeds are expensive, but worth their weigh in gold.
Growing in MN is a struggle in the fall. The frost came really early for us this year and hit really hard. We are in the 20's during the day and the teens and single digits at night. My garden is dead but my newborn baby bunnies are thriving even though they were born this morning at 6° outside!
Hi from Florida! I'm so jealous, its still 86° here and I'm so ready for the cooler weather, for my garden especially. All my fall plants are in already😊
I like spinach and eggs but think I will try kale for a change. Would have never thought a few nights of freeze would make peas sweeter. Kind of like coming out of a Spiritual winter we discover a sweeter relationship with our Abba.
Spinach and eggs is so good. I have to get more spinach for the fall here in florida. Luckily we have a lot we can grow all year. I'm trying beet greens soon! Thx for the heads up putting it with eggs
Mother like Son filming those cabbages. Lol. You mentioned how great the cucumbers were in the fall. Oh my gosh. They are so good. God bless y'all. Rhonda
For your viewers who had the questions about super cold winter gardens: Eliot Coleman says each layer of greenhouse plastic increases your growing zone by 1 to 1.5 a layer. Niki Jabbour recommends choosing only very cold hardy varieties like Vit and Miners Lettuce. Both authors have great winter gardening books you could check out. One Yard Revolution (OYR) channel does some amazing winter gardening, but he's still a balmy zone 5 where as in MN we are zone 4 and 3. BRRRR :)
You are inspirational. Your words are simply lovely. Your life's journey is admirable. I live in MN. Plants have definitely gone to sleep. Thanks for keeping us hopeful. In more ways than one ...
I agree 100%. I can't wait to start homesteading, watching her and her friend Sarah from living traditions homestead has inspired me to jump in with both feet and follow my dreams. My hopes are to have enough finances to be able to set up a greenhouse & garden the right way, so I can donate most of the produce I'm growing to homeless shelters and people in need of a meal. It's something that breaks my heart to see and I know I can make a difference with the beauty mother nature provides us right in our backyard.
I was surprised to learn that the frost improved the flavour of some veggies. It was nice to see your sweet littlest Son. He's your little shadow in the garden recently!😊💕
Got my tote baby greens going. So excited! Just move to Idaho and for the first time in my life I have land!!!! Thank you so much for your videos. They are so inspiring.. Last week I got most of my seeds for spring. I did a happy dance!
I am in Manitoba Canada, and our weather is very similar to Minnesota. Believe me, nothing grows in the ground in gardens here after a hard frost. Perennials do survive well with enough snow cover, but pretty much once the frost and snow hits, our gardens are but a memory of the year last and a dream for the year ahead. If any gardening is done in a greenhouse, it has to be a heated and insulated greenhouse, which gets very expensive, so it's not a common practice.... So we knit! Your garden is still looking really good to me... Mine is snow covered...and resting well... Oh and my thyme is okay under the snow...and we have -20 overnight temps already. Dale from Canada...
53k and growing. Passed the 50k mark and are speeding towards 60 😊 loved the garden tour! Those arroz con pollo peppers grew very tall. I'm considering them for next year after I've heard you rave about them.
Yes yes yes! Utilizing the harvest and making the most of it without getting burned out on the same thing is something I struggle with. I can't wait to see different ways of saving the harvest also. Thats something I worry about so I tend not to plant to many of the same thing and then regret my decision later! I know everything is a learning process :-) I didn't realize how many plants can actually withstand the cold hardy weather! Thank you for the visual after your freeze. Now go in and drink some hot ACV/lemon honey tea. It does the trick every time
I really love your channel, music is great and its easy to get addicted to your videos. I am a market gardener in Ontario Canada, some things are definitely different but you are very inspiring.
I live in S. FL subtropical zone 9. We don't have freeze or cold winters. In February it might get to 45 degrees overnight for 1 week, and 70 in the day.
Hey there I've been gardening in florida for almost 6-7yrs now and it's awesome the things we can grow all year long. I'm in zone 9b how funny is that, such a small world! We don't really get to much frost, you are so right! Maybe a few days or even a week at night but that's it, maybe from like January to February! So nice.. lol
My name is Shari I am brand new to your channel and I am loving it. Thank you for sharing. We have eggs and greens all the time. Some days we also do fried potatoes onions greens and eggs all in one pan. We call it a breakfast scramble.
Yeah! I'm so happy that you announce how to use the harvest! And simple is perfect!! Continue your good job! Also, it might be stupid, but I like to see how cold and what is the weather there. I live in Canada, and it's funny to see how often our cold weather follow yours!
You're such an inspiration. Thanks for posting. I look forward to watching you more than any other channel I am subscribed to. Kitten George really loves you! Lol! He follows you everywhere in your videos.
I love my herbs. They do last a long time into the winter around here in Arkansas they will eventually die back some but will keep going for the most part. One thing with Lemon Balm if you are new with it is don't let it flower and go to seed if it goes to seed you will have lemon balm everywhere! I learned that the hard way my first year growing it. I sprinkle herbs all around my potager garden in the ground and in pots because they are so awesome. loved the tour today, happy gardening!
My sweet husband was picking up some broccoli and turnip seeds a while back and he got butternut squash because it said winter squash. But it's the thought that counts! ♡
I'm living in Canada, and we know cold... One of my favorite gardener is Niki Jabbour, she is gardening all year long. I'm planning my next garden following her advices.
I like to add raw turnips chopped up kinda small to my broccoli salad...which is broccoli chopped a bit, crumbled bacon, mayo, sunflower seeds, raisins and chopped onion...so good and always a hit at family gatherings as a side. You can slightly steam the broccoli or leave it raw.
Jesse, If you wish to keep some of your plants during the frost you can use your container and cover them, but, then add a 60 W incandescent light bulb. You know the old fashion type. The heat will keep the plants warm during the night and give them the added amount of light that they may need. Then in the morning you can uncover them to enjoy the sun. If it snows the snow will act like an insulator and keep the plants alive.
Sweet alyssum comes back year over year in upstate NY zone 5 I am not sure if its from self seeding or from surviving the winter as a plant. So I would expect yours to survive as well and possibly spread. Just incase you do not want it to take over next year you have been warned :)
Zone 5 is microthermal cold temperate with 1-3 months of freezing & total plant a farm dormancy. Also called humid continental-long hot summer with up to a 180 day growing season. .Corn belt & winter wheat climate.
Thank you for your garden tour Jess! I loved it! You have so many raised beds... I am in awe! I am in West Virginia and my growing, and temps like yours pretty much. This was so informative and helpful! The Lord bless you friend!
Thyme is an evergreen! I live in zone 5 and my thyme never dies off. We've been getting frost here for about a month now, but I've still been able to harvest fresh thyme for cooking. The green isn't quite the same color as in the summer and it doesn't actively grow and spread, but it never loses its leaves. My mint got bit by the frost, so if it gets cold enough you may lose that at some point, but it is a perennial so it should come back in the spring.
Thank you for posting this! Most of my garden and greenhouse got demolished here in Nashville after the freeze but I'm hoping the ones I brought inside will survive. I'm glad we're not alone!
You are such an impressive human being. I adore your channel and watch every video. Yesterday's devotional moved me in ways I didn't see coming. I always wonder how the Christian homesteaders feel about their non believer followers. Thank you for that video and all you do. Your gardens are an inspiring.
We live in South East Michigan, so we do not get near the winters that Minnesota gets. However, we do get in to the negatives in the coldest parts of the winter. There's no chance of growing without some type of cover, green house, or insulated green house. If you're growing in ground, with just a cover there's a limit to how far in to the winter you can grow. As the ground will freeze. But with a green house you can extend or over winter your garden. --
I live in the south of Finland. We've had -26C/-14F this winter (which is a pretty typical winter temperature here) and the dinosaur kale and brussel sprouts are still absolutely fine in the veg garden. Or they would be if our dog hadn't dug them up from the snow and munched on them... 🙄 Also we have had a massive amount of thyme in the dry flower beds for at least eight years so that's super hardy actually. The thing is that in the areas where it gets super cold you typically also get a ton of snow and that protects plants very well. 👍 Leeks are a crop often grown in cold climates, it'll stand fine in the snow all winter! I'd love to have your winter in stead though! 😂❤
♥♥♥ Great update! Just had our first heavy frost of the season here. We're getting our first snow tomorrow & we don't usually get snow until January. ♥♥♥
Yes she does! I trust her advice most of all. I've been gardening for 7 yrs and she teaches me things all the time we dont deal with or grow much here.
I’m in California and bought Tower Garden (aeroponic tower) cheap off of Craig’s list and added an aquarium heater to it to keep the water and nutrients at a constant 68 degrees. Then I put 28 different kinds of summer plants on it. Testing if I can grow tomatoes, beans, etc. year round.
Thank you for a really interesting and pleasant tour of your garden! I learned a lot. You inspired me to try gardening next year. I also enjoyed seeing your little boy and Kitten George. Very sweet, both of them.
I love your questions and answers Sunday you live broadcast. I hope you all do it again you answered a couple of my questions and I do appreciate it. I'm eventually moving to Tennessee from Florida. I want to start the straw bale gardening
Jess! So glad to hear you say that you will be doing more vids on what to do with your harvests. It's my biggest struggle as a gardener because frankly I'm not a very good cook! So I don't always know how to cook or best ways to eat the foods I grow. I also don't usually grow things I'd like to try because I don't know how to eat them. Beets? Turnips? Radishes? No idea what the taste like or how to prep them. I've also struggled with finding videos on this topic. The other day I could not for the life of me find a video on what to actually do with herbs. A million on how to grow them, and some on how to prepare them (stripping and chopping), but not what sorts of foods/recipes to actually USE them on. Short of basil, I have no idea what to do with most herbs.
Where I live we only had one night with a little frost, end of October. We never have very cold winters. But the winter is often cloudy, rainy and windy. I was courious to see how your plastic box was doing. It looks very good! Mine is doing fine too.
Kitten George is such a Beautiful Boy! Thanks Jess for the tour of your garden at this time. I just picked some of my Kale the last three days and have been using it with potatoes and carrots and it has been great. My Celery had struggled through our hot summer and was so darn bitter that I almost pulled it out...but, my intuition said to leave it and now some of it is 'sweet'...and hoping it does well. Thanks. Sherry :)
Kitten George is so adorable in this Video! How are the new kittens doing? I was really surprised that my bug attacked plants really pulled through as soon as it got cold because the bugs all died 💛
One Yard Revolution has great videos about growing/harvesting plants grown under cover in Michigan. Zone 4 maybe. I'm in Northern Indiana that is close to our normal weather.
My mom cooked cut up turnips with the greens when I was growing up. Just season them sorta like you would collards. Just found your channel and really like what I've seen so far.
I am really looking forward to spring and getting my first garden in here at the new house. I was not expecting such cold weather here in South MS. It never occurred to me to do fall planting so I'm planning next falls garden too. You are so good at your videos, thank you for taking time to share. Bless you.
My thyme, marjoram and sage have gone completely through winter, uncovered and into the following years here. I am in zone 7b. Of course, rosemary too :)
Cosmopolitan Cornbread - A Good Life Farm my sage and oregano normally make it through most of the winter. We are 30 mi south of Chicago. Will check on my rosemary, thyme and winter savory later. Zone 5b.
I’m curious if you have a video on how to ‘put the garden to sleep’ for the winter/late fall. (Basically wondering how to cover or what to do to prep soil, or how to get the beds prepped for spring now that the growing season has slowed/stopped. We have chickens so I’m hoping they’ll help.)
I love to see what is working and not working...Next year I am going to try harder to have a fall garden. I have strawberries and they survive our winter here, we get into the teens and below. I have not seen any strawberries in your garden. Is there a reason? I will post a video of my garden soon and what I have all year long. Thanks for all your help and being a inspiration!
Hi....I've always loved the sound of your wind chimes---if possible, do you recall the brand or where they came from? I realize this is not one of the 'usual' questions---but their sound is identical to those of my beloved parents at my childhood home. Hearing their music in your videos always brings a flood of happy memories!!. Thanks and BLESSINGS---you've touched more lives than you will ever know. :)
Turnips are fantastic for fermenting, just like sauerkraut. Sauerkraut means "sour herbs" and Sauerrueben means "sour roots", and it's done the same way. Slice turnips thin, layer with salt, push down below the liquid that collects, keep submerged for a week, skimming regularly. Honestly I like them better than sauerkraut.
There are gardeners on TH-cam who grow in very cold climates. Sara's Kitchen Garden grows vegetables year round in SWEDEN! Thanks for the informative video.
Yes to turnip recipes. Yes to updates on the little tote garden. I'm particularly interested in how you are going to thin the lettuces. Beautiful video.
Turnip (actually rutabaga) recipe: cube turnip & boil until tender. Cover with cheese sauce & bake until bubbly hot. It mellows the strong flavor turnips sometimes have and tastes a little like cheese & broccoli. And who doesn't like cheese sauce slathered all over their food?
I've done 4 mil clear plastic tunnels here in SE Iowa for years that have done well down to -20F. Can't speak to -40, but you can keep a tunnel garden down to very cold temps.
My son will try lots of different foods for the same reason of exposing him to a great deal of options. The only thing he never consistently wanted to eat was the schools hot lunches!
Plants are so incredible! It is always interesting to see how many can hold on through those hard Frost's. I was totally impressed by my chard this year!
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I loved your devotional yesterday. I don't remember hearing yours was just a gardening channel. And I for one appreciate your sharing with us. Let's just leave negative comments aside and concentrate on the positive ones.
Thank you. You make a dead and dying garden feel full of life. To find the hidden survivors and love them. To care for the dead appropriately..feed to animals, compost or burn. You stay dedicated year round and demonstrate to others what gardening should be. Truly inspirational.
I’m watching you from Seattle. Thanks for taking time to share your garden and your life with your family!! Your love of Jesus just shines through you especially when in your garden. Blessings!!! 💗🌼🌻🍁🍂🌻💗
Yes he does! She glows when she speaks!
We love that you take us through the garden and teach as you go... This style has taught us so much and definitely makes us feel more prepared as we go out into our garden. Thank you for sharing... and YES!! We would love to see videos about what you do with your harvest!! Simple recipes are the best, especially when you're so busy working on the farm, in the garden, and parenting! We're always up to see how other people are cooking :D
Jess, I did a tub greenhouse after seeing your video. I am in PA and I used the tub on an elevated raised bed. It is surrounded by 8 inches of snow and the baby plants are still growing. I did knock the snow off the top. So far in PA its doing good.
I love seeing these old garden videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. You look exactly how I feel when the garden is dying back
You are so approachable in talking about your garden and gardening experience, I'm very optimistic about starting my garden next year! The editing and music on your vids are also relaxing :)
I also love her music!
Snow is great insulation. It's when the snow hardens into ice there is a problem. So you can grow salad boxes in below freezing temps with a thick enough cover/ good cold frame, and some heating coils. You just clear away snow if you know temps are coming that will freeze the snow into ice. February is our coldest month, and we can get temps as low as -40°F (Thank you Canada 😂)
I love Kale. I make a horseradish vinaigrette and shave some fresh parm cheese on it to enjoy raw, I'll toss some in most of my soups. I also eat spinach or kale with some seasoned beans, and a fried, or poached egg on top. As always, thank you for opening up your life. You have been an incredible source of light, and inspiration for me this passed year. Really, the words thank you just aren't quite adequate enough to express the gratitude I feel having found your channel.
"Quit being a lion!" I love it! Made me laugh out loud. We have too many cats, they think they're a pride. Thank you for the info on what plants are good in cold weather. I was trying a fall garden this year but my chickens got in the garden and harvested everything for themselves. Beasts! I'm totally looking forward to your cooking videos. I grew swiss chard and kale this year (BOTH DID GREAT IN STRAW BALES!). I love kale but I've never had Swiss chard. I saw Justin Rhodes cook it with eggs, so I tried that. Oh my Gosh it was good. I never would have imagined. Anyway, having the full circle on planting, growing, harvesting and then preparing will be so helpful! I really loved my garden this year, I felt empowered by all the information from the Homesteader TH-cam community that it wasn't overwhelming. It was pure joy and we saw and enjoyed the benefits of our efforts.
I truly love these posts, I live in the uk and I have such a tiny garden and an even smaller balcony so seeing your beautiful garden even in winter is so inspirational. I can’t wait to see what you have planned for next spring.xx
25:00 “there’s always gonna be a next season” yes and amen!!! 🙌🙌🙌 😊
Looking forward to the simple recipe cooking videos from garden to plate! God Bless :-)
Hi Jess, Arkie up north from you in Benton county. All my stuff bit the dust as well with this freeze...not normal. Just found you a few months back and enjoy watching folks in my area. Luv watching the garden through the seasons. Stay warm and plan for next season. God bless
I'm in zone 5. The hardiest thing I have found so far in "Winterbore" kale. It survives all winter happily uncovered, and can even put on growth if you get a mid winter warm spell. The seeds are expensive, but worth their weigh in gold.
Growing in MN is a struggle in the fall. The frost came really early for us this year and hit really hard. We are in the 20's during the day and the teens and single digits at night. My garden is dead but my newborn baby bunnies are thriving even though they were born this morning at 6° outside!
Ditto in the Twin Cities! Too early!
@@joeb8167 we are south of duluth and it's been way to cold!!!
Also in MN, even the stuff in my green house froze..
Hi from Florida! I'm so jealous, its still 86° here and I'm so ready for the cooler weather, for my garden especially. All my fall plants are in already😊
One yard revolution is a great channel to follow for gardening in winter up north. He's amazing! Great information!
Rewatching for Jess in her Family & Rest time ❤
I like spinach and eggs but think I will try kale for a change. Would have never thought a few nights of freeze would make peas sweeter. Kind of like coming out of a Spiritual winter we discover a sweeter relationship with our Abba.
Try beet greens, taste like spinach
Spinach and eggs is so good. I have to get more spinach for the fall here in florida. Luckily we have a lot we can grow all year. I'm trying beet greens soon! Thx for the heads up putting it with eggs
We feed frozen peas thawing in water to geese, egyptian geese
Mother like Son filming those cabbages. Lol. You mentioned how great the cucumbers were in the fall. Oh my gosh. They are so good. God bless y'all. Rhonda
For your viewers who had the questions about super cold winter gardens: Eliot Coleman says each layer of greenhouse plastic increases your growing zone by 1 to 1.5 a layer. Niki Jabbour recommends choosing only very cold hardy varieties like Vit and Miners Lettuce. Both authors have great winter gardening books you could check out. One Yard Revolution (OYR) channel does some amazing winter gardening, but he's still a balmy zone 5 where as in MN we are zone 4 and 3. BRRRR :)
You are inspirational. Your words are simply lovely. Your life's journey is admirable. I live in MN. Plants have definitely gone to sleep. Thanks for keeping us hopeful. In more ways than one ...
I agree 100%. I can't wait to start homesteading, watching her and her friend Sarah from living traditions homestead has inspired me to jump in with both feet and follow my dreams. My hopes are to have enough finances to be able to set up a greenhouse & garden the right way, so I can donate most of the produce I'm growing to homeless shelters and people in need of a meal. It's something that breaks my heart to see and I know I can make a difference with the beauty mother nature provides us right in our backyard.
I was surprised to learn that the frost improved the flavour of some veggies. It was nice to see your sweet littlest Son. He's your little shadow in the garden recently!😊💕
Got my tote baby greens going. So excited! Just move to Idaho and for the first time in my life I have land!!!! Thank you so much for your videos. They are so inspiring.. Last week I got most of my seeds for spring. I did a happy dance!
LOL! You should have named this video ... November Garden Tour With George!!
I like that one😊
I am in Manitoba Canada, and our weather is very similar to Minnesota. Believe me, nothing grows in the ground in gardens here after a hard frost. Perennials do survive well with enough snow cover, but pretty much once the frost and snow hits, our gardens are but a memory of the year last and a dream for the year ahead. If any gardening is done in a greenhouse, it has to be a heated and insulated greenhouse, which gets very expensive, so it's not a common practice.... So we knit!
Your garden is still looking really good to me... Mine is snow covered...and resting well... Oh and my thyme is okay under the snow...and we have -20 overnight temps already.
Dale from Canada...
53k and growing. Passed the 50k mark and are speeding towards 60 😊 loved the garden tour! Those arroz con pollo peppers grew very tall. I'm considering them for next year after I've heard you rave about them.
I'm So Happy To Have Found Your Channel. 😄
This was a major Kitten George video. I just love him!
Kitten George is so pretty and sweet. Great look at the garden. Thanks for the tour. Also enjoyed George’s input. Lol
Yes yes yes! Utilizing the harvest and making the most of it without getting burned out on the same thing is something I struggle with. I can't wait to see different ways of saving the harvest also. Thats something I worry about so I tend not to plant to many of the same thing and then regret my decision later! I know everything is a learning process :-) I didn't realize how many plants can actually withstand the cold hardy weather! Thank you for the visual after your freeze. Now go in and drink some hot ACV/lemon honey tea. It does the trick every time
I'm actually surprised at how much can survive the cold! I'm so excited to learn some recipes from you! Kitten George is so cute!
"Neeps & Tatties" (turnips and potato's, old Scottish dish, especially for Burns Night Dinners.. (cue the bagpipes)
I really love your channel, music is great and its easy to get addicted to your videos. I am a market gardener in Ontario Canada, some things are definitely different but you are very inspiring.
I live in S. FL subtropical zone 9. We don't have freeze or cold winters. In February it might get to 45 degrees overnight for 1 week, and 70 in the day.
Hey there I've been gardening in florida for almost 6-7yrs now and it's awesome the things we can grow all year long. I'm in zone 9b how funny is that, such a small world! We don't really get to much frost, you are so right! Maybe a few days or even a week at night but that's it, maybe from like January to February! So nice.. lol
@@StaceyHerewegrowagain 🖤
My name is Shari I am brand new to your channel and I am loving it. Thank you for sharing. We have eggs and greens all the time. Some days we also do fried potatoes onions greens and eggs all in one pan. We call it a breakfast scramble.
Yeah! I'm so happy that you announce how to use the harvest! And simple is perfect!! Continue your good job! Also, it might be stupid, but I like to see how cold and what is the weather there. I live in Canada, and it's funny to see how often our cold weather follow yours!
Kitten George is such a nosy Rosie 😻😻😻😻😻
Great video as always Jess :) I loved the one where it was snowing today, it was so cute! I come from the land of snow and still get giddy over it.
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven xoxoxxxxxxx
:-).....beautiful as always...the scenery is unrivaled.....
You're such an inspiration. Thanks for posting. I look forward to watching you more than any other channel I am subscribed to. Kitten George really loves you! Lol! He follows you everywhere in your videos.
I love that scarf, Jess! I noticed it in your devotional and I love how it works with different colors! Very pretty, unique, and super cozy looking!
I love my herbs. They do last a long time into the winter around here in Arkansas they will eventually die back some but will keep going for the most part. One thing with Lemon Balm if you are new with it is don't let it flower and go to seed if it goes to seed you will have lemon balm everywhere! I learned that the hard way my first year growing it. I sprinkle herbs all around my potager garden in the ground and in pots because they are so awesome. loved the tour today, happy gardening!
Haha that’s now officially the lemon balm bed because years ago, it went to seed. 🤦🏻♀️
My sweet husband was picking up some broccoli and turnip seeds a while back and he got butternut squash because it said winter squash. But it's the thought that counts! ♡
I'm living in Canada, and we know cold... One of my favorite gardener is Niki Jabbour, she is gardening all year long. I'm planning my next garden following her advices.
I love all your videos! Trying our hand at raising our own food and you are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
Thank you for showing this video. Now I won't be nervous about growing during the cold season.
Oooh yes! Turnip greens are great! If they are too bitter for you, just cook it with onion. 😊
I like to add raw turnips chopped up kinda small to my broccoli salad...which is broccoli chopped a bit, crumbled bacon, mayo, sunflower seeds, raisins and chopped onion...so good and always a hit at family gatherings as a side. You can slightly steam the broccoli or leave it raw.
Sounds great!!!
So I would LOVE videos about simple food using your garden. Even if it's simple, I NEED to know how you eat it.
It is 2020. Love watching old videos.
What an amazing delivery. All your videos are so informative. Thank you so much for sharing. Great information.
Jesse, If you wish to keep some of your plants during the frost you can use your container and cover them, but, then add a 60 W incandescent light bulb. You know the old fashion type. The heat will keep the plants warm during the night and give them the added amount of light that they may need. Then in the morning you can uncover them to enjoy the sun. If it snows the snow will act like an insulator and keep the plants alive.
Thyme and oregano both tolerate the cold really well. I loved growing both of them.
LOL, you're so cute. Can tell you are a professional photographer because I would have never noticed a focus issue! Thanks for another great video!
Sweet alyssum comes back year over year in upstate NY zone 5 I am not sure if its from self seeding or from surviving the winter as a plant. So I would expect yours to survive as well and possibly spread. Just incase you do not want it to take over next year you have been warned :)
Great advice
Zone 5 is microthermal cold temperate with 1-3 months of freezing & total plant a farm dormancy. Also called humid continental-long hot summer with up to a 180 day growing season. .Corn belt & winter wheat climate.
Thank you for your garden tour Jess! I loved it! You have so many raised beds... I am in awe! I am in West Virginia and my growing, and temps like yours pretty much. This was so informative and helpful! The Lord bless you friend!
Thanks for the tour. I love watching you in your garden.
Thyme is an evergreen! I live in zone 5 and my thyme never dies off. We've been getting frost here for about a month now, but I've still been able to harvest fresh thyme for cooking. The green isn't quite the same color as in the summer and it doesn't actively grow and spread, but it never loses its leaves. My mint got bit by the frost, so if it gets cold enough you may lose that at some point, but it is a perennial so it should come back in the spring.
Thank you for posting this! Most of my garden and greenhouse got demolished here in Nashville after the freeze but I'm hoping the ones I brought inside will survive. I'm glad we're not alone!
Thank you for showing us what grows during the frosty season! I enjoy your videos, your personality, your kids and especially Kitten George!!
Your peas, lettuce, cabbages, and calendula give me hope!
You are such an impressive human being. I adore your channel and watch every video. Yesterday's devotional moved me in ways I didn't see coming. I always wonder how the Christian homesteaders feel about their non believer followers. Thank you for that video and all you do. Your gardens are an inspiring.
Turnip recipes sound great! Looking forward to see if the kiddos eat it ♥
We live in South East Michigan, so we do not get near the winters that Minnesota gets. However, we do get in to the negatives in the coldest parts of the winter. There's no chance of growing without some type of cover, green house, or insulated green house. If you're growing in ground, with just a cover there's a limit to how far in to the winter you can grow. As the ground will freeze. But with a green house you can extend or over winter your garden. --
I live in the south of Finland. We've had -26C/-14F this winter (which is a pretty typical winter temperature here) and the dinosaur kale and brussel sprouts are still absolutely fine in the veg garden. Or they would be if our dog hadn't dug them up from the snow and munched on them... 🙄 Also we have had a massive amount of thyme in the dry flower beds for at least eight years so that's super hardy actually. The thing is that in the areas where it gets super cold you typically also get a ton of snow and that protects plants very well. 👍 Leeks are a crop often grown in cold climates, it'll stand fine in the snow all winter!
I'd love to have your winter in stead though! 😂❤
♥♥♥ Great update! Just had our first heavy frost of the season here. We're getting our first snow tomorrow & we don't usually get snow until January. ♥♥♥
Absolutely love!!!!!!😃 You always share such great advice.
Yes she does! I trust her advice most of all. I've been gardening for 7 yrs and she teaches me things all the time we dont deal with or grow much here.
I’m in California and bought Tower Garden (aeroponic tower) cheap off of Craig’s list and added an aquarium heater to it to keep the water and nutrients at a constant 68 degrees. Then I put 28 different kinds of summer plants on it. Testing if I can grow tomatoes, beans, etc. year round.
Love turnips and cabbage. So glad I found your channel.
Thank you for a really interesting and pleasant tour of your garden! I learned a lot. You inspired me to try gardening next year. I also enjoyed seeing your little boy and Kitten George. Very sweet, both of them.
I love your questions and answers Sunday you live broadcast. I hope you all do it again you answered a couple of my questions and I do appreciate it. I'm eventually moving to Tennessee from Florida. I want to start the straw bale gardening
Jess! So glad to hear you say that you will be doing more vids on what to do with your harvests. It's my biggest struggle as a gardener because frankly I'm not a very good cook! So I don't always know how to cook or best ways to eat the foods I grow. I also don't usually grow things I'd like to try because I don't know how to eat them. Beets? Turnips? Radishes? No idea what the taste like or how to prep them. I've also struggled with finding videos on this topic. The other day I could not for the life of me find a video on what to actually do with herbs. A million on how to grow them, and some on how to prepare them (stripping and chopping), but not what sorts of foods/recipes to actually USE them on. Short of basil, I have no idea what to do with most herbs.
MN born and raised!! A good storm couple years was -60 with wind chill!! Yes you need a heated tunnel or greenhouse at one point...
Rewatching as my first fall garden is getting under way. 🍂🏵🍁♥️
Kitten George 😭🥀💔
Where I live we only had one night with a little frost, end of October. We never have very cold winters. But the winter is often cloudy, rainy and windy. I was courious to see how your plastic box was doing. It looks very good! Mine is doing fine too.
Kitten George is such a Beautiful Boy! Thanks Jess for the tour of your garden at this time. I just picked some of my Kale the last three days and have been using it with potatoes and carrots and it has been great. My Celery had struggled through our hot summer and was so darn bitter that I almost pulled it out...but, my intuition said to leave it and now some of it is 'sweet'...and hoping it does well. Thanks. Sherry :)
Gearing up for planning my fall garden by reviewing your Fall videos! thanks for these!
Kitten George is so adorable in this Video! How are the new kittens doing?
I was really surprised that my bug attacked plants really pulled through as soon as it got cold because the bugs all died 💛
I have to get use to you saying going to feed it to the pigs!!!
One Yard Revolution has great videos about growing/harvesting plants grown under cover in Michigan. Zone 4 maybe. I'm in Northern Indiana that is close to our normal weather.
My mom cooked cut up turnips with the greens when I was growing up. Just season them sorta like you would collards. Just found your channel and really like what I've seen so far.
I am really looking forward to spring and getting my first garden in here at the new house. I was not expecting such cold weather here in South MS. It never occurred to me to do fall planting so I'm planning next falls garden too. You are so good at your videos, thank you for taking time to share. Bless you.
My thyme, marjoram and sage have gone completely through winter, uncovered and into the following years here. I am in zone 7b. Of course, rosemary too :)
Cosmopolitan Cornbread - A Good Life Farm my sage and oregano normally make it through most of the winter. We are 30 mi south of Chicago. Will check on my rosemary, thyme and winter savory later. Zone 5b.
Just found You . Love what you do ! Thanks ! I will Keep watching
Tain Country Channel Is Awesome As Well.
She Is Very Knowledgeable Too.
You could have it the other way round. Add the soil to the box, close the lid and keep it in the kitchen in the winter.
I have some radishes and lettuce growing in my tote greenhouse. Thanks again for the idea. I'm in Central Illinois and will keep you posted. Zone 6a.
I’m curious if you have a video on how to ‘put the garden to sleep’ for the winter/late fall. (Basically wondering how to cover or what to do to prep soil, or how to get the beds prepped for spring now that the growing season has slowed/stopped. We have chickens so I’m hoping they’ll help.)
I love to see what is working and not working...Next year I am going to try harder to have a fall garden. I have strawberries and they survive our winter here, we get into the teens and below. I have not seen any strawberries in your garden. Is there a reason? I will post a video of my garden soon and what I have all year long. Thanks for all your help and being a inspiration!
Hi....I've always loved the sound of your wind chimes---if possible, do you recall the brand or where they came from? I realize this is not one of the 'usual' questions---but their sound is identical to those of my beloved parents at my childhood home. Hearing their music in your videos always brings a flood of happy memories!!. Thanks and BLESSINGS---you've touched more lives than you will ever know. :)
Turnips are fantastic for fermenting, just like sauerkraut. Sauerkraut means "sour herbs" and Sauerrueben means "sour roots", and it's done the same way. Slice turnips thin, layer with salt, push down below the liquid that collects, keep submerged for a week, skimming regularly. Honestly I like them better than sauerkraut.
There are gardeners on TH-cam who grow in very cold climates. Sara's Kitchen Garden grows vegetables year round in SWEDEN! Thanks for the informative video.
Persimmons are great after freezing. Pick them after freezing and they are great for jam or jelly.
Yes to turnip recipes. Yes to updates on the little tote garden. I'm particularly interested in how you are going to thin the lettuces. Beautiful video.
Turnip (actually rutabaga) recipe: cube turnip & boil until tender. Cover with cheese sauce & bake until bubbly hot. It mellows the strong flavor turnips sometimes have and tastes a little like cheese & broccoli. And who doesn't like cheese sauce slathered all over their food?
You sound congested. Take care of yourself and keep warm!
Cheryl Greenfarb I thought this too
I've done 4 mil clear plastic tunnels here in SE Iowa for years that have done well down to -20F. Can't speak to -40, but you can keep a tunnel garden down to very cold temps.
My son will try lots of different foods for the same reason of exposing him to a great deal of options. The only thing he never consistently wanted to eat was the schools hot lunches!
You sound congested. Thank you for all the great info. Stay well
Plants are so incredible! It is always interesting to see how many can hold on through those hard Frost's. I was totally impressed by my chard this year!