Gardening Lessons From Thomas Jefferson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2024
- Thomas Jefferson spent much of his life with a small garden and documented his progress and plans in his garden journal. Many of his writings are available to gardeners to learn how Jefferson gardened at Monticello. Gardener Scott reviews "Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book", edited by Edwin Morris Betts and how gardeners can use the methods of Jefferson in their own home gardens. (Video #237)
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Considering he didn't have ball point pens or paper like we have it. It's truly amazing
I liked the fireside chat
I’m keeping a journal on my I pad - thanks
Anyone interested can read gardening books from the late 1800's and early 1900's can check out the Smithsonian and Library of Congress for them. I find it fascinating that a lot of vegetables mentioned in those books are the same that we use today.
It totally amazes me he had time for entries in the years leading up to 1776. Thanks for this video!
The garden tour of Monticello is amazing!
In a tedtalk by Hasan Jeffries, he explained that the walls of the estate in which John Adams drafted the bill of rights was built by enslaved children. Supposedly, If you tour the estate you can see tiny handprints.
2021 will be my 3rd consecutive year keeping a garden journal - its both exciting & therapeutic. I had to take some time to digest this video...I’m curious as to how gardening / cultivating land throughout his lifetime informed Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts and actions as they related to slaves & indentured servants who also worked his lands. Much is known about his ownership of both land and humans, as well as his writings and efforts to abolish slave labor. As a contemplative gardener, I’m sure his experiences & reflections in gardening informed some of his thoughts/decisions outside of it. Personally, I’m grateful for the insights and inspirations from my gardening journey.
I’ve been planning on starting a journal just didn’t know how to start. Watching this video the light bulb went off just write jot down anything I did related to the garden. Currently I have dates on sticky’s when I sowed seeds or took veggies to neighbors etc. 🙏🏻 THANK YOU💓💖
You are such inspiration, thank you so much for your great advices.
I now have a garden diary, thanks to you. 🤗
Love your channel
Gardener Scot, I’ve been to Monticello, his home. Absolutely astounding from the house and all through his gardens. A remarkable individual.
Good video. We have to consider that back then they did not have any fancy tools or equipment to help make gardening easier. All they had was a few tools and their bare hands.
great video I am going to start a garden journal now
That's cool, CSU! I graduated from there in zoology in '76. I've worked with animals all these years and I just started my first garden, 3 mos ago! I'm keeping a journal on my phone. 😄
I like the idea of a garden journal. I am trying a spreadsheet with each day of the year in the first column and then the next columns have each year. This way I can compare year to year.
So glad you discovered Thomas Jefferson's garden book. I discovered Jefferson's gardening and his introduction of many heirloom seeds/plants in the early U.S history through reading Peter Hatch: A Rich Spot of Earth’: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. A wonderful book on the restoration of Jefferson's garden Hatch was involved in. That book inspired me in my gardening overtures. Monticello store sells heirloom seeds, and I believe that Southern Exposure also grows Jefferson era heirloom vegetables. There is another book out about the Founding Fathers' gardens. I highly recommend them both. Thank you for the video.
See this is why I love your Channel I love the history lesson and knowledge
Thank you! I write down when and what I sow and when they sprout but take pictures of my harvests.
Hi Gardener Scott, thank you for this information. I am never without my gardening journal.
God bless
I just started documenting. Thanks to you!
I've been LOVING my sugar snap peas, mainly because they are the only thing I've gotten to produce haha. I'm certainly going to stick with them. Cheers!
Try yardlong beans, too!
Thanks for the show and learning a lot keep up the great work. Ps Gods blessings for you and all your family
Good info
Thank you so much for sharing an outside of the box take on one of our Founders. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that they were many things unrelated to the founding of America. I really enjoyed this video.
Another great book on this topic is “Founding Gardeners” by Andrea Wulf. She discusses the gardening of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison. Super interesting to read what their perspectives were, their motivations, and also their misunderstandings about plants.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.
Hi GS, nice video. Enjoyed hearing about our relatives in the gardening family. I recently caught wind of a really early English writing about gardening from the 1400's called: The Feate of Gardening. I'll try to get through it this weekend. Have you heard of it?
I haven't heard of it. Sounds interesting.
Thanks for the video Gardener Scott. I'm curious - I realize you're in Colorado and Jefferson was gardening in Virginia, but was their anything in his journal that that struck you as a weird/interesting little relic of what gardening was like back in those days? Like a plant that people don't really grow anymore, or a certain method that's no longer used, etc?
Good question. I expected to find they grew different plants, but was surprised to discover that his garden was very similar to mine and many others. The specific varieties are different, but he had peas, lettuce, broccoli, and all the other standard plants. He soaked his peas before planting which is a good practice that many don't do today. He was the first to introduce rice and olive trees to South Carolina, but for the most part his gardening was pretty basic with many of his failures documented along the way.
The DEA confiscated Thomas Jefferson's poppy plants in 1987 in violation of the Natural Law upon which Jefferson founded America. That fact should be mentioned in any discussion of Jeffersonian gardening.
Great video - thanks !
OK, my biggest takeaway from this video is that Thomas Jefferson was in his early and mid 30's during the Revolutionary War. You always think of those men as OLD men, but man! TJ was a young kid, and in 1776 he WROTE the Declaration of Independence, at 33! He was a hippie! Wow. I'm gonna be 50 in two weeks, now I feel like I've done nothing with my life! LOL
Better stewardship of the land and soil and much smaller wars would be the results of the world countries if all the leaders were gardeners.
Thanks again Gardenar Scott
"You can garden like Thomas Jefferson" hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Yeah, I know... But to be fair, he did introduce many heirloom variety plants to the early years of our country, he experimented with his crops, and he did get out in his gardens too.
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Do you have a gardening journal you can recommend?
I don't have any one in particular to recommend. I use a few different types and a blank pad. If you haven't seen this video I discuss how to do it and have some links to journals in the description. th-cam.com/video/bLx0VNCaiQg/w-d-xo.html
What does the title mean??
Thomas Jefferson wrote a garden book about his gardening with lessons that can be repeated.