She is me. Did not grow up gardening, somehow found a love of gardening in my late 20’s early 30’s. It’s turned into a hobby/passion. It’s somehow therapeutic weeding and staring at leaves and watching something grow from seed. God blesses us in the simplicity of this love of gardening.
Im 21, ive watched your tours for the last 4years and I wanted to say thank you for sharing your garden! I cannot wait for the day I have a space of my own to garden and use knowledge you've shared in the process 🥺💓
In the meantime you can start with a small bucket garden. Strawberries, potatoes, onions and herbs do very well in containers. We started with found/ free containers and used food scraps such as the root ends of onions. The descendants of those onions are in our raised beds several years later. Itmigbt help to start wherever you are so you can hit the ground running later when you have more room.
I love the drone shots! It’s coming together so beautifully. Also, I love the comfrey info. Thank you for sharing your beautiful journey with us and giving us so much inspiration.
I have so tormented my volunteer sunflowers over the years, moving them here, there, and everywhere, and moving them literally when they're 2 feet tall (kid you not!). They lie down all dramatically, then within the next two days, they're standing tall, looking at me like, "What?!?" One last year got 10 feet tall. I love sunflowers for their total resilience and soul.🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻Great garden tour!
I find that hard work or busyness isn't really hard, it's in the pacing, and stopping, and resting, and enjoying the process that is the most challenging!
My ol’ Daddy, who was born in 1905 on a farm in western NC, was quite a gardener, and would often break off leafy branches of a nearby bush or tree and pop it in the ground to shade a new transplant. The added benefit was that air could still circulate, and as the leaves shriveled, the shade would gradually diminish.
my wife watches your videos and absolutely LOVES you. But here in west St. louis Mo. she is chomping at the bit. Our overnight low last night was 35F. She knows that she must wait til Mother's Day (conventional wisdom in these parts) but you are making it really hard for her. You're the BEST!!
The drone shots are great!! I was one of those who used to give up half way through the season because it would become too much effort after working a full time job. I have now surrounded my food garden with bee and butterfly gardens. Now I can’t wait to get home and go outside to see what new caterpillars I have on the butterfly host plants. I watch the wildlife flitter from plant to plant while I harvest or pull weeds. You are correct that beautiful things will draw you out there!!
Jess, I'm planting right beside you in my head. I had to give up my big garden and move to an apartment with just a small balcony. Still growing a few things, and I left a space for one small folding chair. Such a different space, but I'm still in love with it. One day I'll have some property again, somewhere with lots of enjoyable spaces in between the rows. Thank you for the content, it makes me smile!
I love my garden. I love being outside in nature and I love the joy my husband and family have from eating stuff fresh from the garden. I plucked cherry tomatoes daily for my son and he ate them like candy. He loved it. I have strawberry plants and they’re growing right now and I’m so excited to have him pluck them and eat them ripe. Husband LOVES the tomato sauce I make from the garden for pasta. So much so that he refuses to go back to store-bought tomatoes and insists on growing tomatoes every year. I’m growing Asian herbs I can’t buy around here in rural TN. We moved from Los Angeles so I don’t have access to all the Asian produce like I used to. I have to make my own Vietnamese pho, ramen, and Korean food. So growing stuff like Thai basil, lemongrass, Thai chilis, Korean gochu peppers, perilla, Chinese leeks. No organic napa cabbage or daikon radish in the stores so growing those too to make kimchi. Sad to hear that ppl get burnt out from gardening. Nothing beats the flavor that you can get from growing your own food… except maybe buying from the Amish. But I do feel a deep deep joy in seeing all my seedlings grow from seed to these massive plants that feed my family and make them super happy. There’s no feeling better imo. I feel so… useful… fulfilled? I can’t find a better word to describe the feeling.
I love absolutely every bit of everything that you share with us! I love it when Miah brings you a cup of coffee, when the two of you dream together, plan together, and I absolutely loved how you talked about you and Ezra spending first thing in the morning working clay together at the kitchen counter❣️❣️❣️
Just got done making this week's butter, sourdough bread, water Kiefer soda, and watered the garden. Time to relax with some fresh herbs tea and watch me some jess ❤️😌 while I nurse my 9 mo th old little girl 😍
I just wanted to say I appreciate you talking about fear around gardening. I have wanted a garden for years and was paralyzed with fear. What if I fail and waste the time and money? What if I don’t have the energy (I have a chronic illness)? But I’m excited to say I planted some green beans! It’s a small step toward my dream! ❤
I would LOVE to see a long, detailed garden tour style video BUT as you go through each plant in the entire garden you tell us how you normally cook/prepare/eat each item!!!
You're so lucky to have such a beautiful private oasis. We live close to the city and I can't even go out back without being on my neighbors camera. I'm thankful for what we have but boy do I daydream about a place someday like yours, Lord willing.
I love sitting on my garden benches to just watch the crop, protect it and project what will be from it. I love it. I got a garden hat because I was getting too much sunshine !! I love what you are saying about the garden and enjoying it to the max.
You are so right about putting a chair where you can enjoy your gardens! I did that yesterday with a camp chair and I was immediately full of happiness and inspiration. I mapped out the veg garden and the herb garden. You can get I’m taking the chair back out today! The tasks today include getting my seeds direct sown in the garden because by time they sprout will be dang close to Mothers Day. That is typically my benchmark for planting starter plants. I’m so excited!!!
Jo Hubbard, Wise County, VA. I really look forward to all of the garden tours…gardens changes so quickly. This is how I found your channel when you were in Arkansas. I fell in love immediately…I love gardens and gardening myself. You and Miah’s place is so beautiful. All that hard work!!!! ❤️
I'm 18 min into the video and wanted to pause and take a moment to say how much I appreciate how you always make everyone feel as if you know what we feel, have experienced or haven't experienced and that however you garden or if you dont garden thats ok.. And to make the experience yours. Its about what each individuals experiences , trials and triumphs.. ALWAYS Inspiring! Central Oregon here and it is not easy to grow. I Will not give up and I have so many plans thanks to your input and constantly positive attitude no matter what is thrown your way.. Thank you and God bless...
Right? One of the most jam-packed with info, even for NW'ers like us. I live less than an hour north of the Astoria on the shore of the first bay and I'm just CHOMPING at the bit to get planting!!! It's still so wet... I decided to moat around kiddie pools this year for the crops the slugs like to eat. Beer is just too expensive now!
As a horse owner, I was frustrated thinking of the number of woven plastic (kind of like tarp) feed bags that I would throw away when I switched to a feed that didn't come in paper feed bags. I finally settled on making a feed bag garden. (I also tape them together for tarps). I used dirt from my ancient (40 years old) manure pile and added peat moss. My goal is to use stuff I have laying around. So, feed bags, horse and chicken manure, baling twine, a couple of fence posts, and an old parrot size bird cage are the base of my garden. Wish me luck. 2 weeks in, I haven't killed anything yet. An Amish family just up the road has a greenhouse business and I can get seedlings and peat moss MUCH cheaper than stores. Wish me luck.
I used pea gravel in a pathway once. Because each piece is rounded, it just rolls under foot and is hard to walk on. Instead we use a small size of gravel like quarter minus with fines and it packs down nicely. Looks great! Makes me want to get my fingers in the ground here in central oregon.
Man oh man, I cannot wait until it FINALLY warms up enough here in the Chicago area. We just keep getting really cold weather. All your plantings are making me yearn for my own planting days! Your gardens are magnificent! It would be a dream come true for me!
Hey Jess I'm sending you guys blessings of abundance and health and happiness for your season ahead 🙏 as we head well into Winter in South Africa and say goodbye to our summer crops ❤ you keep Summer alive by sharing your journey with us xxx thank you so much
I have to tell you, I was listening to this video on my way home from picking up our new chickies (Chips) from Meyer hatchery here inn northeast Ohio. They were beeping like crazy in their little box as I’m driving and as soon as they heard your voice, Jess, they all got super quiet and fell asleep. Chicken whisperer in action!! 😂
Hi Jess I totally agree about seating and resting places in the garden, to enjoy the beauty of your hard work and artistry! I also encourage those of you who are away from city lights to set up a few lounge chairs to lay back and look up at the night sky and enjoy the peace and presence of the vastness of space that was created for you to enjoy as well! A few fireflies can bless your soul as well! 😉😊😁!
Listening to you has validated what my heart has been telling me about my garden. I've been so focus on food security and seed saving, it's making me sad to be in my garden. I realized last month, I haven't grown any flowers for the past two yrs. This year, I'm growing lots of flowers!!
Thank you for providing valuable information, peace and inspiration to sit and absorb while I glaze mugs all day! I absolutely agree that gardening is a form of art! Can’t wait to get everything planted here in zone 6! Ps. You look adorable! ❤
Lovely garden tour. I agree with your seating philosophy. I always think the garden needs places to pause, which means seating locations. I also like shade where I like to pause, but my location has some lethal sun. Definitely anything that helps you enjoy the garden will also mean you will take care of your garden more, even if it is just something you spot as you are sitting, drinking your coffee.
I love your garden and as always your videos are so relaxing to watch. I had a thought while I saw Bear sitting on the patio looking at you. I wonder if he wonders, "Is she talking to me? Who is she talking to?" LOL Bless you!
So many snippets of golden information in your video. I'm in zone 9 Portugal and I'm just so overwhelmed about having a garden. Your videos give me so much confidence. P.S. I love your dress and your cute coffee mug.❤
Ooooo, perfect! I spent the morning cleaning house because it's a chilly 47 degrees, rainy day here in Fort Worth TX. Just put some chili in the crock pot and decided to take a break when I got a notification of a R & R video. Garden tour? Even better!
I place seedling pots over newly transplanted seedlings in our in-ground garden. I havent hardened my plants this year due to lack of time 😅 but the broccoli, cabbage and beams have done surprisingly well--even with the colder nights here (zone 6b/ SW VA) 💚🌻🌱
"... moving them out like it was the Hunger Games... may the odds be ever in your favor"! 🤣I laughed out loud at that! Thank you for making my Monday. Love your content so much.
Just watched this for the happy and peaceful inspiration. Your gardens are such beautiful working pieces of ever changing edible and visual art. Art from the heart! 💚 Heading out now to "paint the canvas" of my freedom gardens. Much love and respect to you! 🙏🏻🥰💕👊🏻💪🏻
Love a garden tour! So awesome to see the drone footage to get the perspective of size and layout. Spent the day defining garden beds and planting Jerusalem Artichokes. Even made a hot compost pile. I need to put spaces to sit in the garden but for now it is an amazing workout and my meditation.
Thank you. As a new gardener i have found your tips extremrly helpful ( chairs / sitting / contemplation spaces embedded in to the garden is so key for me in going into my 2 nd season- thank you) It would be really awesome to hear how you have set up irrigation also. Take care, god bless.
I have some deer that love to eat my garden for me, so we are working on re-fencing our garden. Last year, we expanded the size of our space x3, so getting that enclosed is important to me. My plants are bulging at the seams, ready to get into the soil, I'm working through weather, lack of proper fencing, a 40 hour a week job, and just itching to have as many days off as it takes to get everything planted. In the meantime, we also added a high tunnel this year, so I am thankful for that additional space to work with, because it has given me more space in the basement grow room to spread out a bit more and have more plants. I'm excited that I have to only work three days this week, and then I have four days to plant and keep working on fencing. Thank you for sharing today, Jess. You help keep me motivated, and I love the progress being made in your gardens :)
Garden looks wonderful Jess! You reminded me I forget to start comfrey ...darn. Oh well, will see if nurseries have it. I did chuckle when you were talking about growing your cukes...you grow 12 plants and I plan on putting in 120 feet! LOL. I am a little crazy! LOL. The joys of short season gardening. Thanks for the tour.
We grew lemon drop watermelons last year and they were absolutely delicious, but also very seedy. Don't know if it was just the weather conditions or if it's inherent to that variety, so hopefully you have better luck. The rinds are pretty thin and they were prone to splitting when ripe, so they were the ones we were most likely to crack open and eat right there in the garden.
I needed this today. We got halfway through our greenhouse build and realised we have vital parts missing so we had to take it apart again and email the seller. Really pretty frustrated. But then a lovely inspiring video from my favourite TH-camr reminding me that gardening is work and it WILL be worth it. And now I am daydreaming and sketching out my beautiful spaces and 🍅
Good luck! Hopefully the gardening will help you fall in love with your garden again and get you through to completion. Yes, I'm quoting Jesse to you, but she said it well.😊
I get it we were going to build our from scratch and then I found a huge deal on a greenhouse and ordered and waited patiently for it to come in. It was a scam. Now I am out the money for the original greenhouse plan and my kitchen is covered and I mean covered in plants. Jess is the only thing keeping me from throwing it all away and screaming.
Something that worked really well for me this year for ground cover/edging, that can take some foot traffic as well, was creeping thyme. It did benefit from afternoon shade, and I used several different varieties; it stays low, makes a nice weed mat, and has pretty purple flowers. It also helped a bit with erosion. (I'm in Little River, SC. Zone 8 by the coast.)
Gardeners strive to outdo themselves each year. That's one thing I love about gardening, the possibilities are endless! So much variety and creativity and planning. You get out what you put into it. I would say you've definitely outdone yourself 😁😁
Cannot tell you how much you speak to my heart!! Before I found you this year I made a vow that if I was growing food, I wanted it to be beautiful! So I found all the diff colored varieties ❤️ and now that I've watched your passion and your garden transform, I want the space to be beautiful too!!! Cannot wait to get into the garden! Patiently growing indoors for zone 3 ❤️❤️
Fairly silent watcher here. I have loved to watch your videos over the years. It has really inspired me. So excited to see your space come together. Can't wait to see it over the next few years. 💜
I totally get the whole waking up tired thing. My dilemma is making myself doing anything but gardening. Like I have responsibilities and I'm having a seriously difficult time being an adult during gardening season... and I have a really long growing season.
You mentioned you have so much space; it might be fun to let a few beds be "treat beds", where you grow yummy treats specifically for your cows, horses, and pigs. Dogs get treats as well as regular food, hoofstock can too!😃
Last year was the first year I grew enough peppers to make my own fermented hot sauces. And also my first year growing any seasoning varieties like Cayenne and Paprika. I would 💚 if you'd take us along for the pepper smoking process, because I really want to try smoking my Paprikas this time around! 🌶
It is crazy how much dahlias multiply each season. Even if you don't have to dig up the tubers for winter time it may be useful to separate some of the clusters to turn one huge plant into a dozen plants. I understand buying more dahlias in order to get a variety... so many different kinds. loving the progress on the contaminated greenhouse it is looking so lush even if it is not orderly there is a lot of beauty in it's chaos. Gosh those strawberries are making me hungry! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful happy place with us.
I absolutely adore the shots of Miah bringing you coffee in your garden. It's one of my favorite things that pop up in your videos. It's such a simple gesture, but so lovely and loving. He could do literally anything else or nothing else and he chooses you. Over and over. I just love it. ❤️
Having a preservation kitchen would be fabulous! Could just make an addition to the milk room! They've got a sink & refrigerator...just need a stove! 😊
I can't express how happy I am for you and this blooming garden you get to put your loving hands too. The gleeful Joy that is simmering in your face while you share jumps out to me. I absolutely love it!
First things to make it to the garden are the chairs and swings ! Although I have to force myself to sit, thank the heavens for coffee ☕️!. My days seem like 4 hours long from sunrise to sunset. Now I must make a herb spiral... Thanks Jess! Hopefully more people will becoming over to plant & share. Working on making patio blocks this year from scratch. 😊
Thank you for a delightful & inspiring video. My Dad’s approach to asparagus was when it was finished in the fall, he mowed over the patch with his lawn mower. I think his asparagus really liked the sandy river soil, he always had plenty.
It would be so fun to call your pepper high tunnel the Pepper Palace 😂 Can’t wait to see all your peppers in there! Thanks for another wonderful garden tour ❤
Hi Ms. Jessica. I've helped harden off some starts by putting two 33 gallon garbage cans upside down, one on each side of the plant and putting a 1" x 12" board across the garbage cans to shield the hot noon day sunshine. I try to make sure the morning sun can hit the plant and then the afternoon sun by keeping that mean-o sunshine off the plant until it has had a chance to get used it. Sometimes I pray for cloudy days or fog too. Awesome garden Ms. Jessica, God bless your plants.
For me raised bed provide framing for the art of the garden. It's not that I don't like gardens without them but they just add something that satisfies my need for some structure.
Jess, I really love your garden. It would look so lovely with some creeping phlox in the tub and bed. My neighbor has it in a twin bed frame and they put purple as the main blanket and pink as the pillow. Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Thank you for sharing!😊❤
Jess, could you do a video sometime where you focus specifically on vine borers? I have so much trouble growing any melons, cucumbers, or squash. And I love them so much! And if anyone reading this comment has any input, I would appreciate it!
I did alot of reading on this last year. The basic options are: check plants daily during SVB season for eggs and remove them. They are tiny, copper/brown dots that can be anywhere on the plant (stems, leaves, flowers, fruit). If SVB symptoms appear (wilting leaves midday is one of the earlier ones, along with a borer hole), you can inject the vine above the hole with BT to kill the larvae. Or you can use a flashlight shown through the vine to locate the larvae and stab it with a wire or carefully cut open the vine and remove the larvae. Then bandage the plant with damp compost. Or, you can cover the entire plant with insect fabric or tulle. After picking off eggs and pulling damaged and stunted plants last year, I bought tulle and covered my squash. I am hand pollinating and got my first squash yesterday. I also bought a self-fertile zucchini seed from Burpee, so I won't have to hand pollinate those at all. The only issue with covering is that you must be growing in soil that has no chance of having vine borer pupa in the soil. Otherwise, you will have trapped the moth in with your squash. For pumpkin vines specifically, they will root along the vine. If you encourage this by burying the plant at leaf intersections, the plant will likely survive SVB with no interventions (mine did last year). Good luck!
She is me. Did not grow up gardening, somehow found a love of gardening in my late 20’s early 30’s. It’s turned into a hobby/passion. It’s somehow therapeutic weeding and staring at leaves and watching something grow from seed. God blesses us in the simplicity of this love of gardening.
As an art teacher I appreciate you referring to gardening as an art project because it really is! ❤
Art teacher here too! I love that Jess always leans toward the aesthetics. 💚💚🌱
It has taken me thirty years to realize, “The garden should reflect who you are because a pretense is difficult to keep up.”
Im 21, ive watched your tours for the last 4years and I wanted to say thank you for sharing your garden! I cannot wait for the day I have a space of my own to garden and use knowledge you've shared in the process 🥺💓
In the meantime you can start with a small bucket garden. Strawberries, potatoes, onions and herbs do very well in containers. We started with found/ free containers and used food scraps such as the root ends of onions. The descendants of those onions are in our raised beds several years later. Itmigbt help to start wherever you are so you can hit the ground running later when you have more room.
I love the drone shots! It’s coming together so beautifully. Also, I love the comfrey info. Thank you for sharing your beautiful journey with us and giving us so much inspiration.
Well said!
Me too! I'm inspired to divide my plants and get some planted under my fruit trees!
😍 loved seeing the drone shot, too. Makes more sense. Curious which way is North? I'm trying to figure out your microclimates... 😊
I have so tormented my volunteer sunflowers over the years, moving them here, there, and everywhere, and moving them literally when they're 2 feet tall (kid you not!). They lie down all dramatically, then within the next two days, they're standing tall, looking at me like, "What?!?" One last year got 10 feet tall. I love sunflowers for their total resilience and soul.🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻Great garden tour!
I find that hard work or busyness isn't really hard, it's in the pacing, and stopping, and resting, and enjoying the process that is the most challenging!
My ol’ Daddy, who was born in 1905 on a farm in western NC, was quite a gardener, and would often break off leafy branches of a nearby bush or tree and pop it in the ground to shade a new transplant. The added benefit was that air could still circulate, and as the leaves shriveled, the shade would gradually diminish.
my wife watches your videos and absolutely LOVES you. But here in west St. louis Mo. she is chomping at the bit. Our overnight low last night was 35F. She knows that she must wait til Mother's Day (conventional wisdom in these parts) but you are making it really hard for her. You're the BEST!!
Wow... that drone footage really gave a better perspective of how big your gardens are!😮❤
The drone shots are great!! I was one of those who used to give up half way through the season because it would become too much effort after working a full time job. I have now surrounded my food garden with bee and butterfly gardens. Now I can’t wait to get home and go outside to see what new caterpillars I have on the butterfly host plants. I watch the wildlife flitter from plant to plant while I harvest or pull weeds. You are correct that beautiful things will draw you out there!!
Roll that beautiful drone footage!!! The garden is amazing....I love have coffee with you on your garden tours!
Jess, I'm planting right beside you in my head. I had to give up my big garden and move to an apartment with just a small balcony. Still growing a few things, and I left a space for one small folding chair. Such a different space, but I'm still in love with it. One day I'll have some property again, somewhere with lots of enjoyable spaces in between the rows. Thank you for the content, it makes me smile!
I love the aerial view!! I can see it so much better!!!
My garden is very very small,but I love it. I have a small yard,I sure wish it could be bigger. I'm so excited for my garden this year
Have a wonderful day Jess!
There’s little better than sitting down with a cup of coffee to watch your garden tours
I prefer walking my own garden personally, but this is great for more ideas!
I love my garden. I love being outside in nature and I love the joy my husband and family have from eating stuff fresh from the garden.
I plucked cherry tomatoes daily for my son and he ate them like candy. He loved it. I have strawberry plants and they’re growing right now and I’m so excited to have him pluck them and eat them ripe.
Husband LOVES the tomato sauce I make from the garden for pasta. So much so that he refuses to go back to store-bought tomatoes and insists on growing tomatoes every year.
I’m growing Asian herbs I can’t buy around here in rural TN. We moved from Los Angeles so I don’t have access to all the Asian produce like I used to. I have to make my own Vietnamese pho, ramen, and Korean food. So growing stuff like Thai basil, lemongrass, Thai chilis, Korean gochu peppers, perilla, Chinese leeks. No organic napa cabbage or daikon radish in the stores so growing those too to make kimchi.
Sad to hear that ppl get burnt out from gardening. Nothing beats the flavor that you can get from growing your own food… except maybe buying from the Amish.
But I do feel a deep deep joy in seeing all my seedlings grow from seed to these massive plants that feed my family and make them super happy. There’s no feeling better imo. I feel so… useful… fulfilled? I can’t find a better word to describe the feeling.
I’ve missed the long garden tours 🥰
Between Jess and Tatiana of YouCan I am getting spring fever! I just want to plant all the things!
I love absolutely every bit of everything that you share with us! I love it when Miah brings you a cup of coffee, when the two of you dream together, plan together, and I absolutely loved how you talked about you and Ezra spending first thing in the morning working clay together at the kitchen counter❣️❣️❣️
Just got done making this week's butter, sourdough bread, water Kiefer soda, and watered the garden. Time to relax with some fresh herbs tea and watch me some jess ❤️😌 while I nurse my 9 mo th old little girl 😍
Yesssss ❤🌱
I just wanted to say I appreciate you talking about fear around gardening. I have wanted a garden for years and was paralyzed with fear. What if I fail and waste the time and money? What if I don’t have the energy (I have a chronic illness)? But I’m excited to say I planted some green beans! It’s a small step toward my dream! ❤
I would LOVE to see a long, detailed garden tour style video BUT as you go through each plant in the entire garden you tell us how you normally cook/prepare/eat each item!!!
yes 🙌
You're so lucky to have such a beautiful private oasis. We live close to the city and I can't even go out back without being on my neighbors camera. I'm thankful for what we have but boy do I daydream about a place someday like yours, Lord willing.
I love sitting on my garden benches to just watch the crop, protect it and project what will be from it. I love it. I got a garden hat because I was getting too much sunshine !! I love what you are saying about the garden and enjoying it to the max.
You are so right about putting a chair where you can enjoy your gardens! I did that yesterday with a camp chair and I was immediately full of happiness and inspiration. I mapped out the veg garden and the herb garden. You can get I’m taking the chair back out today! The tasks today include getting my seeds direct sown in the garden because by time they sprout will be dang close to Mothers Day. That is typically my benchmark for planting starter plants. I’m so excited!!!
Now that’s a garden . Love it
Jo Hubbard, Wise County, VA. I really look forward to all of the garden tours…gardens changes so quickly. This is how I found your channel when you were in Arkansas. I fell in love immediately…I love gardens and gardening myself. You and Miah’s place is so beautiful. All that hard work!!!! ❤️
You definitely have to have place to sit, enjoy, dream and plan😊
I'm 18 min into the video and wanted to pause and take a moment to say how much I appreciate how you always make everyone feel as if you know what we feel, have experienced or haven't experienced and that however you garden or if you dont garden thats ok.. And to make the experience yours. Its about what each individuals experiences , trials and triumphs.. ALWAYS Inspiring! Central Oregon here and it is not easy to grow. I Will not give up and I have so many plans thanks to your input and constantly positive attitude no matter what is thrown your way.. Thank you and God bless...
Right? One of the most jam-packed with info, even for NW'ers like us. I live less than an hour north of the Astoria on the shore of the first bay and I'm just CHOMPING at the bit to get planting!!! It's still so wet... I decided to moat around kiddie pools this year for the crops the slugs like to eat. Beer is just too expensive now!
Just fabulous Jess ❤xx
As a horse owner, I was frustrated thinking of the number of woven plastic (kind of like tarp) feed bags that I would throw away when I switched to a feed that didn't come in paper feed bags. I finally settled on making a feed bag garden. (I also tape them together for tarps). I used dirt from my ancient (40 years old) manure pile and added peat moss. My goal is to use stuff I have laying around. So, feed bags, horse and chicken manure, baling twine, a couple of fence posts, and an old parrot size bird cage are the base of my garden. Wish me luck. 2 weeks in, I haven't killed anything yet. An Amish family just up the road has a greenhouse business and I can get seedlings and peat moss MUCH cheaper than stores. Wish me luck.
Another idea for shading is to use big umbrellas. They work great!
I used pea gravel in a pathway once. Because each piece is rounded, it just rolls under foot and is hard to walk on. Instead we use a small size of gravel like quarter minus with fines and it packs down nicely. Looks great! Makes me want to get my fingers in the ground here in central oregon.
"I was just like, may the odds be ever in your favor!" lol Have fun in your garden, Jess, it's been a long wait x
Request, can you make a tutorial video to show us haw to make Comfrey salve? That would be awesome😊
Man oh man, I cannot wait until it FINALLY warms up enough here in the Chicago area. We just keep getting really cold weather. All your plantings are making me yearn for my own planting days! Your gardens are magnificent! It would be a dream come true for me!
Hey Jess I'm sending you guys blessings of abundance and health and happiness for your season ahead 🙏 as we head well into Winter in South Africa and say goodbye to our summer crops ❤ you keep Summer alive by sharing your journey with us xxx thank you so much
I have to tell you, I was listening to this video on my way home from picking up our new chickies (Chips) from Meyer hatchery here inn northeast Ohio. They were beeping like crazy in their little box as I’m driving and as soon as they heard your voice, Jess, they all got super quiet and fell asleep. Chicken whisperer in action!! 😂
Awwwww!🥰
i love the love between you and your hubby!! it makes me smile knowing there are couples together that work very very hard together!!
I've been waiting!!!!!❤ looks amazing!
Hi Jess I totally agree about seating and resting places in the garden, to enjoy the beauty of your hard work and artistry! I also encourage those of you who are away from city lights to set up a few lounge chairs to lay back and look up at the night sky and enjoy the peace and presence of the vastness of space that was created for you to enjoy as well! A few fireflies can bless your soul as well! 😉😊😁!
I agree!
Listening to you has validated what my heart has been telling me about my garden. I've been so focus on food security and seed saving, it's making me sad to be in my garden. I realized last month, I haven't grown any flowers for the past two yrs. This year, I'm growing lots of flowers!!
It would be very neat to see your beautiful oasis in person. Keep up the great work~ wishing you blessing upon blessing. Have a great week!
Thank you for providing valuable information, peace and inspiration to sit and absorb while I glaze mugs all day! I absolutely agree that gardening is a form of art! Can’t wait to get everything planted here in zone 6! Ps. You look adorable! ❤
Lovely garden tour. I agree with your seating philosophy. I always think the garden needs places to pause, which means seating locations. I also like shade where I like to pause, but my location has some lethal sun. Definitely anything that helps you enjoy the garden will also mean you will take care of your garden more, even if it is just something you spot as you are sitting, drinking your coffee.
The joy is mine! Thanks for an amazing tour,
Wonderful intro, if it wasn’t almost 9pm, I would run outside and plant something!!! Good luck always
I love your garden and as always your videos are so relaxing to watch. I had a thought while I saw Bear sitting on the patio looking at you. I wonder if he wonders, "Is she talking to me? Who is she talking to?" LOL Bless you!
So many snippets of golden information in your video. I'm in zone 9 Portugal and I'm just so overwhelmed about having a garden. Your videos give me so much confidence.
P.S. I love your dress and your cute coffee mug.❤
I would so be sitting at the red table by the no dig garden. I love the few of the garden and the farm in the background.❤
Ooooo, perfect! I spent the morning cleaning house because it's a chilly 47 degrees, rainy day here in Fort Worth TX. Just put some chili in the crock pot and decided to take a break when I got a notification of a R & R video. Garden tour? Even better!
I place seedling pots over newly transplanted seedlings in our in-ground garden. I havent hardened my plants this year due to lack of time 😅 but the broccoli, cabbage and beams have done surprisingly well--even with the colder nights here (zone 6b/ SW VA) 💚🌻🌱
The PICTURE OF YOU & YOUR PUPPERs. Omg Jess so cute he straight up smiled for the camera!!
"... moving them out like it was the Hunger Games... may the odds be ever in your favor"! 🤣I laughed out loud at that! Thank you for making my Monday. Love your content so much.
Just watched this for the happy and peaceful inspiration. Your gardens are such beautiful working pieces of ever changing edible and visual art. Art from the heart! 💚 Heading out now to "paint the canvas" of my freedom gardens. Much love and respect to you! 🙏🏻🥰💕👊🏻💪🏻
There's a tag I marked it." We're so proud of you Jess. 🤗 So many spaces! It's going to be amazing when it starts getting wild.
you two are such a cute couple. love your laugh. Love your gardens
It's so cute the way Miah is always flustered when Jess is around.
Love a garden tour! So awesome to see the drone footage to get the perspective of size and layout. Spent the day defining garden beds and planting Jerusalem Artichokes. Even made a hot compost pile. I need to put spaces to sit in the garden but for now it is an amazing workout and my meditation.
Thank you. As a new gardener i have found your tips extremrly helpful ( chairs / sitting / contemplation spaces embedded in to the garden is so key for me in going into my 2 nd season- thank you) It would be really awesome to hear how you have set up irrigation also. Take care, god bless.
I have some deer that love to eat my garden for me, so we are working on re-fencing our garden. Last year, we expanded the size of our space x3, so getting that enclosed is important to me. My plants are bulging at the seams, ready to get into the soil, I'm working through weather, lack of proper fencing, a 40 hour a week job, and just itching to have as many days off as it takes to get everything planted. In the meantime, we also added a high tunnel this year, so I am thankful for that additional space to work with, because it has given me more space in the basement grow room to spread out a bit more and have more plants. I'm excited that I have to only work three days this week, and then I have four days to plant and keep working on fencing.
Thank you for sharing today, Jess. You help keep me motivated, and I love the progress being made in your gardens :)
Garden looks wonderful Jess! You reminded me I forget to start comfrey ...darn. Oh well, will see if nurseries have it. I did chuckle when you were talking about growing your cukes...you grow 12 plants and I plan on putting in 120 feet! LOL. I am a little crazy! LOL. The joys of short season gardening. Thanks for the tour.
This is extraordinary!
We grew lemon drop watermelons last year and they were absolutely delicious, but also very seedy. Don't know if it was just the weather conditions or if it's inherent to that variety, so hopefully you have better luck. The rinds are pretty thin and they were prone to splitting when ripe, so they were the ones we were most likely to crack open and eat right there in the garden.
I needed this today. We got halfway through our greenhouse build and realised we have vital parts missing so we had to take it apart again and email the seller. Really pretty frustrated. But then a lovely inspiring video from my favourite TH-camr reminding me that gardening is work and it WILL be worth it.
And now I am daydreaming and sketching out my beautiful spaces and 🍅
Good luck! Hopefully the gardening will help you fall in love with your garden again and get you through to completion. Yes, I'm quoting Jesse to you, but she said it well.😊
I get it we were going to build our from scratch and then I found a huge deal on a greenhouse and ordered and waited patiently for it to come in. It was a scam. Now I am out the money for the original greenhouse plan and my kitchen is covered and I mean covered in plants. Jess is the only thing keeping me from throwing it all away and screaming.
Such a joy watching your tours
Love the drone footage! So cool to see it all that way!
Something that worked really well for me this year for ground cover/edging, that can take some foot traffic as well, was creeping thyme. It did benefit from afternoon shade, and I used several different varieties; it stays low, makes a nice weed mat, and has pretty purple flowers. It also helped a bit with erosion. (I'm in Little River, SC. Zone 8 by the coast.)
Gardeners strive to outdo themselves each year. That's one thing I love about gardening, the possibilities are endless! So much variety and creativity and planning. You get out what you put into it. I would say you've definitely outdone yourself 😁😁
Cannot tell you how much you speak to my heart!! Before I found you this year I made a vow that if I was growing food, I wanted it to be beautiful! So I found all the diff colored varieties ❤️ and now that I've watched your passion and your garden transform, I want the space to be beautiful too!!! Cannot wait to get into the garden! Patiently growing indoors for zone 3 ❤️❤️
I get so many compliments on my herb spiral, I love it so much. Love your tours too!
My first raised bed just got its soil and the fact that I dont have to bed over to reach anything is pure heaven!
Fairly silent watcher here. I have loved to watch your videos over the years. It has really inspired me. So excited to see your space come together. Can't wait to see it over the next few years. 💜
Continue to grow and be prosperous , your amazing ❤️🙏
That coffee mug you have is pretty epic. So gorgeous. 😍Love it!
I totally get the whole waking up tired thing. My dilemma is making myself doing anything but gardening. Like I have responsibilities and I'm having a seriously difficult time being an adult during gardening season... and I have a really long growing season.
You mentioned you have so much space; it might be fun to let a few beds be "treat beds", where you grow yummy treats specifically for your cows, horses, and pigs. Dogs get treats as well as regular food, hoofstock can too!😃
Last year was the first year I grew enough peppers to make my own fermented hot sauces. And also my first year growing any seasoning varieties like Cayenne and Paprika. I would 💚 if you'd take us along for the pepper smoking process, because I really want to try smoking my Paprikas this time around! 🌶
I agree!
It is crazy how much dahlias multiply each season. Even if you don't have to dig up the tubers for winter time it may be useful to separate some of the clusters to turn one huge plant into a dozen plants. I understand buying more dahlias in order to get a variety... so many different kinds.
loving the progress on the contaminated greenhouse it is looking so lush even if it is not orderly there is a lot of beauty in it's chaos.
Gosh those strawberries are making me hungry!
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful happy place with us.
Love how you create beautiful resting places in your gardens so you can enjoy them and not just work them!
I absolutely adore the shots of Miah bringing you coffee in your garden. It's one of my favorite things that pop up in your videos. It's such a simple gesture, but so lovely and loving. He could do literally anything else or nothing else and he chooses you. Over and over. I just love it. ❤️
Looks like Jeremiah is going to need to convert a stall in the barn to an outdoor kitchen :D Lots of food preservation ahead!
Having a preservation kitchen would be fabulous! Could just make an addition to the milk room! They've got a sink & refrigerator...just need a stove! 😊
Obsessed with your tours- please continue to post these!!! It’s super helpful!
If you're new here....don't worry! Jess will make tons of garden videos!
I can't express how happy I am for you and this blooming garden you get to put your loving hands too. The gleeful Joy that is simmering in your face while you share jumps out to me. I absolutely love it!
The joy of sipping my sunday morning coffee while watching the garden tour 🥰
First things to make it to the garden are the chairs and swings ! Although I have to force myself to sit, thank the heavens for coffee ☕️!.
My days seem like 4 hours long from sunrise to sunset.
Now I must make a herb spiral...
Thanks Jess! Hopefully more people will becoming over to plant & share.
Working on making patio blocks this year from scratch. 😊
Thank you for a delightful & inspiring video. My Dad’s approach to asparagus was when it was finished in the fall, he mowed over the patch with his lawn mower. I think his asparagus really liked the sandy river soil, he always had plenty.
YAY! I LOVE IT! Just finished filming my first garden tour it's all a work in progress but we are excited for the season!!!
This is the year to see the benefits of all your hard work! It’s looking beautiful!❤
It would be so fun to call your pepper high tunnel the Pepper Palace 😂 Can’t wait to see all your peppers in there! Thanks for another wonderful garden tour ❤
Got my coffee ready - can’t wait to watch this 😊
Hi Ms. Jessica. I've helped harden off some starts by putting two 33 gallon garbage cans upside down, one on each side of the plant and putting a 1" x 12" board across the garbage cans to shield the hot noon day sunshine. I try to make sure the morning sun can hit the plant and then the afternoon sun by keeping that mean-o sunshine off the plant until it has had a chance to get used it. Sometimes I pray for cloudy days or fog too. Awesome garden Ms. Jessica, God bless your plants.
Thanks, Jess! All of the different gardens are going to be amazing! I look forward to each "Garden Tour" that you do!!
Can you make a video showing how you make your pepper powder? I'd like to try to do that this year.
When we were clearing daughters garden in her new house we found about 80ft roll of cattle panel fencing. Today we have put in the archways 🙌
SCORE!!!!!!
For me raised bed provide framing for the art of the garden. It's not that I don't like gardens without them but they just add something that satisfies my need for some structure.
Always a joy to watch your videos.
Absolutely beautiful Homestead.🤗 Your impressive creativity and hard work are paying off.
Jess, I really love your garden. It would look so lovely with some creeping phlox in the tub and bed. My neighbor has it in a twin bed frame and they put purple as the main blanket and pink as the pillow. Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Thank you for sharing!😊❤
Jess, could you do a video sometime where you focus specifically on vine borers? I have so much trouble growing any melons, cucumbers, or squash. And I love them so much!
And if anyone reading this comment has any input, I would appreciate it!
The vine borers almost took out my spaghetti squash and pumpkins last summer! I would love more input on how to prevent them.
I did alot of reading on this last year. The basic options are: check plants daily during SVB season for eggs and remove them. They are tiny, copper/brown dots that can be anywhere on the plant (stems, leaves, flowers, fruit). If SVB symptoms appear (wilting leaves midday is one of the earlier ones, along with a borer hole), you can inject the vine above the hole with BT to kill the larvae. Or you can use a flashlight shown through the vine to locate the larvae and stab it with a wire or carefully cut open the vine and remove the larvae. Then bandage the plant with damp compost.
Or, you can cover the entire plant with insect fabric or tulle. After picking off eggs and pulling damaged and stunted plants last year, I bought tulle and covered my squash. I am hand pollinating and got my first squash yesterday. I also bought a self-fertile zucchini seed from Burpee, so I won't have to hand pollinate those at all. The only issue with covering is that you must be growing in soil that has no chance of having vine borer pupa in the soil. Otherwise, you will have trapped the moth in with your squash.
For pumpkin vines specifically, they will root along the vine. If you encourage this by burying the plant at leaf intersections, the plant will likely survive SVB with no interventions (mine did last year).
Good luck!