Places helping with storm damage: Samaritan’s Purse: www.samaritanspurse.org/ Mercy Chefs: mercychefs.com/helene-response/ NC Baptists: ncbaptist.org/hurricane-helene-response/ 8 Days of Hope: eightdaysofhope.com/ Cajun Navy Relief: www.cajunnavyrelief.com/ Please add any other organizations in the comments. Thank you!!
What did your mother put in it, if you don’t mind sharing? …doesn’t have to be precise, I don’t measure unless it’s for a dessert (cake, cookies, etc.)I would like to try it. Thanks in advance.
Hey Tipper, I appreciate these garden tours, and seeing all the different flowers too. When my grandparents passed I dug up a clump of Irises and brought them home. As you know they spread but those Irises come from plants well over a hundred years ago. Love you guys and my prayers for everybody 🙏
We have several businesses in the area that plant the greenstalks with petunias in the summer. They wind up looking like petunia trees, they're gorgeous. I think you would love them. At Christmas, the garden centers put poinsettias in them in their greenhouses because it's way too cold here for them to be outside, and that's a beautiful sight to see too. Thank you for taking the time to show your garden.❤
Still have some stuff growing great. We do compost just like you . Just whatever the animals don't eat we throw on a pile,and we just pile up the barn clean out and let it break down. Continued prayers for all the hurricane victims. Yall have a blessed night
Good morning Tipper 😊 Thank you for sharing the beauty of the mountains in your area. Your yard and garden may be turning from the more vibrant colors that other seasons brought. But there's beauty in every season from God for sure. Please tell Granny hello for me. I pray for her to regain her strength in body. Y'all have a wonderful day! Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌄🍂
You got me hooked on old maids! They are so beautiful and I love to clip them and put them in the house! I think I bought five packs for next year. And they’re so hearty.
Busy day today, but it's never too late to Celebrate Appalachia. I immediately noticed how nice your shirt and sweater look against the Fall background. Great color choices. I enjoyed the garden tour, and I'm glad you still have some mustard greens and other things to enjoy. God bless y'all!
Tipper, you have the most beautiful flowers! The roses are so lovely as the other flowers are, too. 🌹 You definitely have a green thumb and can grow anything. 😊 I really enjoy your garden tours and seeing the beautiful holler where you all live and enjoy. I love the story about the flowers that you got from Granny and planted there at your house. So sweet and sentimental. 💕 Thank you for sharing your garden tour. Sending blessings to you and all your family. 💗🙏
As usual it was a wonderful video. This is a great time of the year to spread compost on your garden. Gives it time to finish breaking down. All the cold weather crops are looking good. Enjoy them as the weather gets colder.
I love your garden videos best!! So inspiring and educational!! Thank you! I have not had a killing frost in my area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Egg shells are great for chickens IF you grind them up and put in their feed. Egg shells take FOREVER to decompose if left in large pieces.
Thank you for sharing your garden after a frost, loved seeing flowers still beautiful & food too…it does bring back memories from growing up❤ My prayers are with the storm victims ❤& prayers for you/family❤
I really enjoyed the garden tour. I realized I’ve never grown turnips and after seeing yours, I’m thinking about growing some for next year since it’s to late in the season to start them by seed in my area of NC. Prayers continue for all people affected by the hurricanes.
Your garden is going into hibernation for the winter. It looks amazing. I wish I had a green thumb, but alas, I can't grow anything. I still love seeing your garden.
Tipper, do you think you and Matt could do a walk up the hill and through the woods and video that for us? I so miss the fall time back there. I could watch a video like that with the sounds of nature for hours. Just a thought.... Thank you, Jenny
Seeing your garden always reminds me of growing up, thanks Tipper! I so enjoy your precious family and pray for y’all! Continuing to pray for everyone affected in our state of NC and elsewhere from storms! God bless y’all and them! 😀❤️🙏🏻
Hi Tipper, I love the garden tours. Your yard is lovely to me. I really want to have a garden so I thank you for all your tips, knowledge & love for gardening. The chrysanthemums are pretty & I love how you incorporate stories or memories of Granny. I love that they're also called Octobers, my bday is 10/10!! You & your family always bless me❤
Oh Tipper I take great comfort in the closing down the garden tour. It reminds me that God has blessed us with another season. It also reminds me that those of us who are able to garden to be thankful for the bounty God saw fit to bless us with and with that blessing we get to share with others cause usually he gives abundance. Thanks for the pretty flowers you showed as well. I’m on the mend must be the prayers. Brooks ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🌀🌪️🇮🇱
When I kept sheep and goats in the mountains, my girl's old man would drive over a hundred miles in these hills just to collect my annual manure pouches to fertilize his flower beds... I would use the horse feed bags I used during the winter the same feed I used for the goats for milk. if you ever keep goats for the milk always give them horse feed, not cow feed that is poison for goats. Horse feed is mixed with good oats and grains and also molasses and is good for horses and goats and gives a good manure... 🦌
Nice to see a few things starting to grow. Too dark and wet here to start in Oct. I had a cold compost system, it was two piles. One was older (last year) and the other was this year. When using older pile if there were large pieces not broken down I'd toss them into the newer pile. Then next year swap. Hello from rainy Oregon.
What a great video! We haven't had a frost here yet in the southern Shenandoah Valley of VA, but we've been down to 34° a couple of times. Not cold enough yet to damage anything as far as tender plants go. Fall is spectacular here right now, & I always notice that during a drought, we seem to have some amazing colors on our trees in Autumn. And we got a lot of rain during Helene, but nothing again since then. What's so strange is that along with my rose bushes blooming again which happens regularly in Fall, I have azaleas blooming & forsythia blooming too! My dahlias are also blooming & looking great. My little Eucalyptus tree is growing like crazy, my fig tree is almost 10' tall & covered in figs plus my banana trees are also a 10' tall tropical jungle after starting out as little 2" seedlings just 2 years ago. I mean... we're surrounded by mountains & at around 1,000 feet elevation, but for some reason the southern Shenandoah Valley maintains some warmth between the Blue Ridge & Alleghenies. Meanwhile, your place is beautiful as always & I'm jealous of your amazing mountain property. I went on a hike today up on Cave Hill over Grand Caverns. Absolutely gorgeous scenery! I like secret trails hardly anyone knows about with stunning views of the Blue Ridge. Next spring should be interesting. How will my wildflowers look after the drought this year? Trilliums, Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits? I always worry about them, I try so hard to create a more wild environment for them in my yard, but it's never the same as a wild woodland. I just keep going on like you do, & learn from the shrubs & plants, they'll tell me, right? Have a fantastic Sunday & God Bless y'all
Just wanted to leave a comment: I grew up in Appalachia. My parents are from the north so I don't have a true Appalachian accent, but I use all the words y'all do. I now live in Germany as a dairy farmer. Was invited to a university to talk to Agricultural students in their English class. I'll be showing one of your shorts to showcase a true Appalachian accent. ❤
*When you touch the flowers, vegetables, leaves...I just feel it, too! I'm sure many older folks, unable to get their own hands outside, on damp rose petals. YOU are a treasure! Love and appreciation from Northern VA! *One of your younger viewers.🤸🏼🤸🏼♂️🤸🏼♀️
@@CelebratingAppalachia People remember certain things. You're great at talking to your audience like we're just hanging out, taking a stroll, a close family member teaching us how to cook. (like a normal person!) Also, thank you to your family for letting us in! I bet a LOT of people think of you in their prayers... How beautiful is that?!?! Enjoy your evening!🤸🏼♀️🤸🏼♂️🤸🏼🍁🍂
If you use a lot of eggs it is worth cleaning them then when you have a few put them in a bean grinder. Calcium powder can be added to animal feed or just back into the compost.
Tipper, I sincerely hope you and Matt have many, many more years of dreaming and planning gardens and projects for your beautiful homestead in the hollars of the Appalachian mountains. May God bless and protect your family.
What a beautiful view of the colorful hillsides! I'm really surprised to see so many Fall colors in our area, as in yours, because of how dry it's been. We just got a bit of rain yesterday, first time in a month, probably because were getting ready to refinish our front door!
Love your garden tours. I throw my scraps in m6 garden too. We will till it in later this fall and it helps the soil. I don’t have any animals either except there are a stray cat here and there but they don’t bother my garden. My brother does that too and he always has the best garden every year..
Thank you Tipper for the garden tour. My garden, though not near as big as yours looks about as sad. It really feels strange this time of year when I don't have to go out and water or pick off the tomato worms or just sit and talk to my garden. It takes me a while to adjust. A few days ago I went out and got all the green tomatoes picked before our first frost. Now I have about 20 pounds of green tomatoes wrapped in newspaper and in boxes all over the basement. I do this every year and with not many lost to rot. The little green ones, I've had pretty good success with ripening them by putting them in a brown paper bag or several bags. Then as the larger ones ripen I'll take and blanch them in hot water adding in the little ones. After that I'll put them in a freezer bag and freeze them until I have enough to make sauce or even the Bloody Mary mix that I've perfected over the last 40 years. The mix is probably number 3 on the list of my husband's favorite things that I put up. I put my tomatoes through a food processor and then strain them. The pulp I have left over I put in my dehydrator. After they are good and dried I powder them and add them to soups and stews. About that horseradish, when you dig it leave about an inch of the crown and replant it. You'll have a new plant next year. I also like the take the big palm leaves in late spring and either cook them like you would turnip greens or steam them lightly and make veggie roll ups. As far as compost goes I like to have my grandson dig me holes where I'll put the spent coffee grounds, tea, peeling and such. We have a problem with mice and an occasional skunk coming through. He will put a piece of plywood over them to keep them from getting dug up. For the egg shells, I wash them out and let them air dry and then I'll crumple them up and put them in a jar. When the jar gets full I bring out a coffee bean grinder that I picked up for $5.00 at the thrift store and grind them into powder. When planting time comes I add about a tablespoon of the powder in the hole where I'm planting a tomato plant. This is the best way to prevent bloom rot, that bad place on a tomato where the bloom was. By doing that I've never had to put up with the problem of bloom rot. It works like a charm. My dad taught me that. Thank you for bringing up turnips. I love them like you do but never though about growing them. I have put them on my list for next year. And thank you for that beautiful splash of color. Since I now live in Colorado I don't get to see that. I miss that so much. There is nothing like it. Only the artistic hand of God can paint such beauty. Wishing you and yours a blessed evening, Jenny
Oh Happy Fall, the fall colors are wonderful, ours have been brown and after months of no rain severe drought, we got rain thins morning for about 5 hours, I don’t know if we will get colors or not, but I had hot chocolate this morning on the front porch, 😊
I really enjoy your garden tours. When I was growing up, we through out our scraps on the garden, too. I don't get into composting anymore. We do not raise a large garden. My husband and I both have rheumatoid arthritis and our age has limited us from planting a lot.
All my grass clippings go in my garden and around fruit trees and I mow over fall leaves and do the same. My lot was a hill they bulldozed flat and there was no topsoil here, just hard packed red dirt with gravel. After two years I have rich black soil in my gardens full of worms and no weeds because there`s 2 to 3 inches of grass clippings and chopped leaves on top of it. To expand my garden I put brown cardboard down on the ground and cover it with thick chopped leaves and grass clippings and cover those with sandy soil from a wash and immediately plant southern peas then greens in fall. In a few months it turns into rich soil but I continue to add more organic material each summer and fall.
Your garden looks about like mine. I have the last of the tomatoes ripening in my sunroom. I had to pick them green to avoid frost. My one rose is still blooming as are the geraniums and snapdragons. Still have Nasturtium blooms but the leaves are pretty droopy. My garden is done but the Delicata squash are so delicious. I compost the same way you do, I pile it up and let it do its thing. Seems to work great for me.
Thank you for my Tipper garden fix. Warm here in Uwharrie again too. Some things do go through frost , thankfully greens to enjoy. I have noticed the few here also and has been dry. I need to grow horseradish I love it. Good idea with Tommy toes! You still have a magnificent garden ❤. I move lot of outdoor plants up against the house during the winter They do fine. I still have greens and I like raw cabbage with salt Grannies flowers are beautiful. I’ve never grown parsnips I’ll try that with carrots 🥕. What is corn green?? I love collards 😋. The crow 🐦⬛ disturbing 😂. You are blessed. Love y’all and granny ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Your way of compost is best. Also volunteers are the best 😉. I’ll have to try the mushroom mulch If we don’t dream life is no fun ❤❤❤❤. Appalachia Strong. Prayers always
You may have shown this, not sure, but I will cut branches of basil and lemon balm. I will tie them to a bread twisty then hang them in in my garage. In a couple weeks, I will bring them in and crumble them in a jelly jar per herb. I have also done that with parsley, but I couldn't find any at the nurseries this past year. I hope I can try them with seeds in early spring.
Still harvesting more tommy toes than I can eat. Just me, I cook Asian style. Clear soup tonight with frozen pork dumplings and greens. Scalded and peeled tommy toes and dropped them in the soup at the last minute with a touch of vinegar. Wish I had Octobers . . . I saw 5-6 foot chrysanthemums in Japan staked. This is the season when they are the valued flower there.
Mrs. Tipper, I just recently watched your video when you and Katie went to Fontana Village. You mentioned you were making cornbread salad. I would love to see a video on that. As always, your content is great and enjoyable.
I take very similar approach to yours regarding my 'compost', Tipper. I throw my stuff into a couple of those metal rings (bought 'em at Tractor Supply) and every so often I turn it all over with a shovel. Most times I can find enough that looks 'finished' from those piles, amend what ever I'm amending. It works well. 🙌🏼 💞
My marigolds looked awful most of the summer and after I cleaned the flower pots out they now are full of new growth. I am excited to see how your corn does next year and to see how the plans for a new shed goes. Oh and Tipper, remember Matt thought about building you a new Island for your kitchen lol, well I hope that happens too.
I had never seen Ground Cherries in Louisiana until I grew some this year. I had trouble with earwigs eating the green fruits inside the husk but the ripe ones were delicious. They have already started trying to reseed themselves so I doubt I`ll have to replant them next spring. The drought and heat last year wiped out the clover here so I got a half pound of seeds and replanted it recently for the bees next year. I`ve tried to plant pollinator flower packs but nothing grew. The clovers are doing great though. I`m still picking figs, mulberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, red ripper peas, green beans & okra here and have a bunch of lightweight tarps and row covers to fight off the frosts as long as possible. Last year a very early frost in October put an end to most of my summer vegetables but I covered a tomato plant and got tomatoes until December 29 so this year I got enough tarps to protect most of my stuff. All my winter greens and tubers are already growing though and I planted everything possible and a lot of new things to try.
Try the little round Paris Market Carrots. Those were my first "easy" carrots. They seem to grow well mixed in with radishes in spring and mature fast and they even do well in pots. No thinning is required and they taste really good.
It's sad to see everything die from frost but I love the colors of fall. The colors around your house are so beautiful. Most of our trees here in N.E Pennsylvania are bare. The colors are gone so quick. Barely enough time to enjoy
Hi Tipper It's sad to see the garden dry up and die. But that's life in a garden right. Your flowers did really well. I have collar greens in my back yard . I love collar greens . I wash them well and then roll through like straws and cut them in strips, then I put olive oil and onions and garlic in the pan...then put them in the pan and salt and pepper and keep my eye and wait til they turn green and the take them out. I don't let them get soggy or welted this is how the Japanese cook them , and they are so good . Since I been home I eat the them every other day .with salmon or chicken breast . I hope you had a good Halloween love patsy
As the season changes, temperatures drop and days get shorter. Trees get less direct sunlight, and the chlorophyll in the leaves breaks down. The lack of chlorophyll reveals yellow and orange pigments that were already in the leaves but masked during the warmer months.
Around the area in South Carolina where I'm at..cow manure is used lot for gardens by the ole timey folks... and mushrooms just grow up right through the cow patties in a field... I've never really use compost in my garden, only miracle gro starting the garden out and bout twice a month during growing process n less as everything starts filling out n bringing stuff in... and I have good luck with vegetables being full n ripe to harvest... but it also depends on the soil and the if it's getting too much sun.. I plant lot of stuff in half shady areas.. cause some vegetables ain't suppose to get full sunlight during day 😊.. and I do water if no rain.. thank u for sharing 😊 and y'all have a beautiful blessed Halloween evening...
Tipper if the moss roses come back they start showing in the late spring. They are just teeny little red stems that come up first. My Mama had them come back every year but I just can't get them to come back for me. I guess my thumb is a little less green than Mama's was. Lol. Good luck with yours.
Not sure if I've shared with you this one. The squirrels bury the acorns in my planters. Last spring we found one growing ig long root. Guess they forgot about that one😂
Places helping with storm damage:
Samaritan’s Purse: www.samaritanspurse.org/
Mercy Chefs: mercychefs.com/helene-response/
NC Baptists: ncbaptist.org/hurricane-helene-response/
8 Days of Hope: eightdaysofhope.com/
Cajun Navy Relief: www.cajunnavyrelief.com/
Please add any other organizations in the comments. Thank you!!
My mother made turnip slaw and every time she took it to church it was cleaned up. Everyone at church loved it.
What did your mother put in it, if you don’t mind sharing? …doesn’t have to be precise, I don’t measure unless it’s for a dessert (cake, cookies, etc.)I would like to try it. Thanks in advance.
Our little Yorkshire Terrier started barking just as you said the squirrel started barking. Gave me a little laugh. 😁" Perfect timing ". 😁
😊
Nature takes my breath away. How can any doubt there is an Almighty? (To each his own, my opinion only)
I feel the same way 😊
Hey Tipper, I appreciate these garden tours, and seeing all the different flowers too. When my grandparents passed I dug up a clump of Irises and brought them home. As you know they spread but those Irises come from plants well over a hundred years ago. Love you guys and my prayers for everybody 🙏
Love that Tony 😊 Such meaning in having them
I was fortunate to be able to give a little to Mercy Chefs this time! Thanks for continuing to share the efforts. 😊
Wonderful!! Appreciate all you do for us too!
I enjoyed your garden tour very much 😊
Love seeing all the flowers and vegetables that are still doing well in spite of the frost. Thanks for the Autumn tour of your gardens.
Thanks for watching!
Hello I hope all is well with you mountain folk? I love what Paul is posting on the blind pig.
We are well and hope you are too! So glad you've been enjoying Paul 😊 we have been too
Always enjoy your garden walks. The cosmos are such a pretty little flower, just lovely.
The Lord is the master gardener.
So true! Thank you!
Amen. I love cosmos too, they were my mother's favorite flowers and I grow them in her memory. GOD is the Master Gardener.
It's nice to see the fall colors!
We have several businesses in the area that plant the greenstalks with petunias in the summer. They wind up looking like petunia trees, they're gorgeous. I think you would love them. At Christmas, the garden centers put poinsettias in them in their greenhouses because it's way too cold here for them to be outside, and that's a beautiful sight to see too. Thank you for taking the time to show your garden.❤
That sounds lovely 😊
Still have some stuff growing great. We do compost just like you . Just whatever the animals don't eat we throw on a pile,and we just pile up the barn clean out and let it break down. Continued prayers for all the hurricane victims. Yall have a blessed night
Hi Tipper good morning glad to see the garden God bless you all
Good morning Tipper 😊 Thank you for sharing the beauty of the mountains in your area. Your yard and garden may be turning from the more vibrant colors that other seasons brought. But there's beauty in every season from God for sure. Please tell Granny hello for me. I pray for her to regain her strength in body. Y'all have a wonderful day! Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌄🍂
You got me hooked on old maids! They are so beautiful and I love to clip them and put them in the house! I think I bought five packs for next year. And they’re so hearty.
Wonderful 😊
Busy day today, but it's never too late to Celebrate Appalachia. I immediately noticed how nice your shirt and sweater look against the Fall background. Great color choices. I enjoyed the garden tour, and I'm glad you still have some mustard greens and other things to enjoy. God bless y'all!
Always a joy to be in the garden with y'all - Gid bless 🙏💖🙏
Tipper, you have the most beautiful flowers! The roses are so lovely as the other flowers are, too. 🌹 You definitely have a green thumb and can grow anything. 😊 I really enjoy your garden tours and seeing the beautiful holler where you all live and enjoy. I love the story about the flowers that you got from Granny and planted there at your house. So sweet and sentimental. 💕 Thank you for sharing your garden tour. Sending blessings to you and all your family. 💗🙏
Thank you 😊
Thanks Tipper. There is still some life in your garden. Love your video as usual.
As usual it was a wonderful video. This is a great time of the year to spread compost on your garden. Gives it time to finish breaking down. All the cold weather crops are looking good. Enjoy them as the weather gets colder.
I love your garden videos best!! So inspiring and educational!! Thank you! I have not had a killing frost in my area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Egg shells are great for chickens IF you grind them up and put in their feed. Egg shells take FOREVER to decompose if left in large pieces.
Thank you for sharing your garden after a frost, loved seeing flowers still beautiful & food too…it does bring back memories from growing up❤
My prayers are with the storm victims ❤& prayers for you/family❤
I have pale pink Octobers. They are a single bloom. Those double whites from Grannie are beautiful.
This feeds my soul..
Thank you so much…God bless your family…much love…
Our pleasure!
God bless you Ms Tipper. Thank you for showing us your lovely garden. Prayers and blessings.
You are so welcome 🤗
I really enjoyed the garden tour. I realized I’ve never grown turnips and after seeing yours, I’m thinking about growing some for next year since it’s to late in the season to start them by seed in my area of NC. Prayers continue for all people affected by the hurricanes.
Another great video Tipper thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for the walk about in the garden. God bless y'all. Love and prayers. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤
It's time to put the summer garden to bed
Another thought, your holler is beautiful.
Thank you!
Your garden is going into hibernation for the winter. It looks amazing. I wish I had a green thumb, but alas, I can't grow anything. I still love seeing your garden.
Thank you Livvy 😊
Tipper, do you think you and Matt could do a walk up the hill and through the woods and video that for us? I so miss the fall time back there. I could watch a video like that with the sounds of nature for hours. Just a thought....
Thank you,
Jenny
Thanks for sharing. My mom had the old fashioned mums. She had some bronze colored ones. Seasons are changing and the holidays are coming.
Seeing your garden always reminds me of growing up, thanks Tipper! I so enjoy your precious family and pray for y’all! Continuing to pray for everyone affected in our state of NC and elsewhere from storms! God bless y’all and them! 😀❤️🙏🏻
We just finished up making Pear butter. That is our Christmas gifts for our children.
Hi Tipper, I love the garden tours. Your yard is lovely to me. I really want to have a garden so I thank you for all your tips, knowledge & love for gardening. The chrysanthemums are pretty & I love how you incorporate stories or memories of Granny. I love that they're also called Octobers, my bday is 10/10!!
You & your family always bless me❤
Those old fashion mums are so pretty. Maybe I can find some!
Thank you for the end of garden tour. Can’t wait for next year,🙏❤️🇨🇦
Us too!
I wish I had time to do all the gardening you do. One day, maybe ❤ until then, I’ll just live vicariously through you!
Absolutely beautiful we got rain the last three days super excited it did our greens need it
Oh Tipper I take great comfort in the closing down the garden tour. It reminds me that God has blessed us with another season. It also reminds me that those of us who are able to garden to be thankful for the bounty God saw fit to bless us with and with that blessing we get to share with others cause usually he gives abundance. Thanks for the pretty flowers you showed as well. I’m on the mend must be the prayers. Brooks ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🌀🌪️🇮🇱
Thanks for the tour
Wow the sea anemones blooms are fascinating. Thanks for sharing that! Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend
Thank you! You too!
Enjoyed it very much, the walks and learning about the plants of all season!
My goodness that was such an enjoyable video! Needed a little peace and you absolutely exude it!
Love your channel , love flowers 🌹,🌷🌺🌹💐🪻🌻🌼🌸🏵️
Thank you so much 😊
When I kept sheep and goats in the mountains, my girl's old man would drive over a hundred miles in these hills just to collect my annual manure pouches to fertilize his flower beds... I would use the horse feed bags I used during the winter the same feed I used for the goats for milk. if you ever keep goats for the milk always give them horse feed, not cow feed that is poison for goats. Horse feed is mixed with good oats and grains and also molasses and is good for horses and goats and gives a good manure... 🦌
You have a beautiful visual and also are so very adept at explaining your garden. Much love, Tipper.
Thank you 😊
Nice to see a few things starting to grow. Too dark and wet here to start in Oct. I had a cold compost system, it was two piles. One was older (last year) and the other was this year. When using older pile if there were large pieces not broken down I'd toss them into the newer pile. Then next year swap. Hello from rainy Oregon.
What a great video! We haven't had a frost here yet in the southern Shenandoah Valley of VA, but we've been down to 34° a couple of times. Not cold enough yet to damage anything as far as tender plants go. Fall is spectacular here right now, & I always notice that during a drought, we seem to have some amazing colors on our trees in Autumn. And we got a lot of rain during Helene, but nothing again since then. What's so strange is that along with my rose bushes blooming again which happens regularly in Fall, I have azaleas blooming & forsythia blooming too! My dahlias are also blooming & looking great. My little Eucalyptus tree is growing like crazy, my fig tree is almost 10' tall & covered in figs plus my banana trees are also a 10' tall tropical jungle after starting out as little 2" seedlings just 2 years ago. I mean... we're surrounded by mountains & at around 1,000 feet elevation, but for some reason the southern Shenandoah Valley maintains some warmth between the Blue Ridge & Alleghenies. Meanwhile, your place is beautiful as always & I'm jealous of your amazing mountain property. I went on a hike today up on Cave Hill over Grand Caverns. Absolutely gorgeous scenery! I like secret trails hardly anyone knows about with stunning views of the Blue Ridge. Next spring should be interesting. How will my wildflowers look after the drought this year? Trilliums, Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits? I always worry about them, I try so hard to create a more wild environment for them in my yard, but it's never the same as a wild woodland. I just keep going on like you do, & learn from the shrubs & plants, they'll tell me, right?
Have a fantastic Sunday & God Bless y'all
That is amazing! Thank you for visiting 😊
Just wanted to leave a comment: I grew up in Appalachia. My parents are from the north so I don't have a true Appalachian accent, but I use all the words y'all do. I now live in Germany as a dairy farmer. Was invited to a university to talk to Agricultural students in their English class. I'll be showing one of your shorts to showcase a true Appalachian accent. ❤
That is wonderful 😊 Thank you!!
*When you touch the flowers, vegetables, leaves...I just feel it, too! I'm sure many older folks, unable to get their own hands outside, on damp rose petals. YOU are a treasure!
Love and appreciation from Northern VA! *One of your younger viewers.🤸🏼🤸🏼♂️🤸🏼♀️
Thank you 😊 So glad you enjoy it!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia People remember certain things. You're great at talking to your audience like we're just hanging out, taking a stroll, a close family member teaching us how to cook. (like a normal person!)
Also, thank you to your family for letting us in!
I bet a LOT of people think of you in their prayers... How beautiful is that?!?!
Enjoy your evening!🤸🏼♀️🤸🏼♂️🤸🏼🍁🍂
@@TammyOToole It is so beautiful! I am blessed!! Thank you again!
Thanks Tipper 🤗❤️
If you use a lot of eggs it is worth cleaning them then when you have a few put them in a bean grinder. Calcium powder can be added to animal feed or just back into the compost.
Tipper, I sincerely hope you and Matt have many, many more years of dreaming and planning gardens and projects for your beautiful homestead in the hollars of the Appalachian mountains. May God bless and protect your family.
Thanks so much!
What a beautiful view of the colorful hillsides! I'm really surprised to see so many Fall colors in our area, as in yours, because of how dry it's been. We just got a bit of rain yesterday, first time in a month, probably because were getting ready to refinish our front door!
God bless 🙏 💖 🙏
I'm still harvesting tomatoes, bell peppers, cayenne peppers, okra, and herbs almost daily. No freeze in sight for northeast Mississippi yet.
That is great!
We do compost pretty much the way you do. If the pile gets really big, we will turn it sometimes.
Love your garden tours. I throw my scraps in m6 garden too. We will till it in later this fall and it helps the soil. I don’t have any animals either except there are a stray cat here and there but they don’t bother my garden. My brother does that too and he always has the best garden every year..
Hi Tipper, I love this video. I liked seeing what is still growing. The scenery is beautiful. Give your family a hug from me.
Thank you Tipper for the garden tour. My garden, though not near as big as yours looks about as sad. It really feels strange this time of year when I don't have to go out and water or pick off the tomato worms or just sit and talk to my garden. It takes me a while to adjust.
A few days ago I went out and got all the green tomatoes picked before our first frost. Now I have about 20 pounds of green tomatoes wrapped in newspaper and in boxes all over the basement. I do this every year and with not many lost to rot. The little green ones, I've had pretty good success with ripening them by putting them in a brown paper bag or several bags. Then as the larger ones ripen I'll take and blanch them in hot water adding in the little ones. After that I'll put them in a freezer bag and freeze them until I have enough to make sauce or even the Bloody Mary mix that I've perfected over the last 40 years. The mix is probably number 3 on the list of my husband's favorite things that I put up. I put my tomatoes through a food processor and then strain them. The pulp I have left over I put in my dehydrator. After they are good and dried I powder them and add them to soups and stews.
About that horseradish, when you dig it leave about an inch of the crown and replant it. You'll have a new plant next year. I also like the take the big palm leaves in late spring and either cook them like you would turnip greens or steam them lightly and make veggie roll ups.
As far as compost goes I like to have my grandson dig me holes where I'll put the spent coffee grounds, tea, peeling and such. We have a problem with mice and an occasional skunk coming through. He will put a piece of plywood over them to keep them from getting dug up.
For the egg shells, I wash them out and let them air dry and then I'll crumple them up and put them in a jar. When the jar gets full I bring out a coffee bean grinder that I picked up for $5.00 at the thrift store and grind them into powder. When planting time comes I add about a tablespoon of the powder in the hole where I'm planting a tomato plant. This is the best way to prevent bloom rot, that bad place on a tomato where the bloom was. By doing that I've never had to put up with the problem of bloom rot. It works like a charm. My dad taught me that.
Thank you for bringing up turnips. I love them like you do but never though about growing them. I have put them on my list for next year.
And thank you for that beautiful splash of color. Since I now live in Colorado I don't get to see that. I miss that so much. There is nothing like it. Only the artistic hand of God can paint such beauty.
Wishing you and yours a blessed evening,
Jenny
Wonderful tips! Thank you Jenny 😊
Oh Happy Fall, the fall colors are wonderful, ours have been brown and after months of no rain severe drought, we got rain thins morning for about 5 hours, I don’t know if we will get colors or not, but I had hot chocolate this morning on the front porch, 😊
Thank you Connie!
I really enjoy your garden tours. When I was growing up, we through out our scraps on the garden, too. I don't get into composting anymore. We do not raise a large garden. My husband and I both have rheumatoid arthritis and our age has limited us from planting a lot.
So glad you enjoy! Thank you!!
That was another great video Tipper , I enjoyed the tour of the garden. Some things are still. Beautiful ❤
All my grass clippings go in my garden and around fruit trees and I mow over fall leaves and do the same. My lot was a hill they bulldozed flat and there was no topsoil here, just hard packed red dirt with gravel. After two years I have rich black soil in my gardens full of worms and no weeds because there`s 2 to 3 inches of grass clippings and chopped leaves on top of it. To expand my garden I put brown cardboard down on the ground and cover it with thick chopped leaves and grass clippings and cover those with sandy soil from a wash and immediately plant southern peas then greens in fall. In a few months it turns into rich soil but I continue to add more organic material each summer and fall.
Your garden looks about like mine. I have the last of the tomatoes ripening in my sunroom. I had to pick them green to avoid frost. My one rose is still blooming as are the geraniums and snapdragons. Still have Nasturtium blooms but the leaves are pretty droopy. My garden is done but the Delicata squash are so delicious. I compost the same way you do, I pile it up and let it do its thing. Seems to work great for me.
Thanks Tipper ive loved seeing your garden.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thank you for my Tipper garden fix. Warm here in Uwharrie again too. Some things do go through frost , thankfully greens to enjoy. I have noticed the few here also and has been dry. I need to grow horseradish I love it. Good idea with Tommy toes! You still have a magnificent garden ❤. I move lot of outdoor plants up against the house during the winter They do fine. I still have greens and I like raw cabbage with salt Grannies flowers are beautiful. I’ve never grown parsnips I’ll try that with carrots 🥕. What is corn green?? I love collards 😋. The crow 🐦⬛ disturbing 😂. You are blessed. Love y’all and granny ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Your way of compost is best. Also volunteers are the best 😉. I’ll have to try the mushroom mulch If we don’t dream life is no fun ❤❤❤❤. Appalachia Strong. Prayers always
Thank you 😊 the corn salad is a type of green
You may have shown this, not sure, but I will cut branches of basil and lemon balm. I will tie them to a bread twisty then hang them in in my garage. In a couple weeks, I will bring them in and crumble them in a jelly jar per herb. I have also done that with parsley, but I couldn't find any at the nurseries this past year. I hope I can try them with seeds in early spring.
Still harvesting more tommy toes than I can eat. Just me, I cook Asian style. Clear soup tonight with frozen pork dumplings and greens. Scalded and peeled tommy toes and dropped them in the soup at the last minute with a touch of vinegar. Wish I had Octobers . . . I saw 5-6 foot chrysanthemums in Japan staked. This is the season when they are the valued flower there.
Tipper, in the deep South, we fry green tomatoes. Maybe, you could try that with green Tommy toes.
Mrs. Tipper, I just recently watched your video when you and Katie went to Fontana Village. You mentioned you were making cornbread salad. I would love to see a video on that. As always, your content is great and enjoyable.
I take very similar approach to yours regarding my 'compost', Tipper. I throw my stuff into a couple of those metal rings (bought 'em at Tractor Supply) and every so often I turn it all over with a shovel. Most times I can find enough that looks 'finished' from those piles, amend what ever I'm amending. It works well. 🙌🏼 💞
I wish I could have been more like You 😢
My marigolds looked awful most of the summer and after I cleaned the flower pots out they now are full of new growth. I am excited to see how your corn does next year and to see how the plans for a new shed goes. Oh and Tipper, remember Matt thought about building you a new Island for your kitchen lol, well I hope that happens too.
Really enjoyed this video! My Momma would throw out her scrapes onto our garden also! God bless and be safe!😊
Been thru there just a beautiful place ❤❤❤😊
Thank you 😊
I had never seen Ground Cherries in Louisiana until I grew some this year. I had trouble with earwigs eating the green fruits inside the husk but the ripe ones were delicious. They have already started trying to reseed themselves so I doubt I`ll have to replant them next spring. The drought and heat last year wiped out the clover here so I got a half pound of seeds and replanted it recently for the bees next year. I`ve tried to plant pollinator flower packs but nothing grew. The clovers are doing great though.
I`m still picking figs, mulberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, red ripper peas, green beans & okra here and have a bunch of lightweight tarps and row covers to fight off the frosts as long as possible. Last year a very early frost in October put an end to most of my summer vegetables but I covered a tomato plant and got tomatoes until December 29 so this year I got enough tarps to protect most of my stuff. All my winter greens and tubers are already growing though and I planted everything possible and a lot of new things to try.
That is wonderful 😊
Pragmatic is definitely a descriptor for you. Things are what they are.
Kale is good in smoothies and salads
Try the little round Paris Market Carrots. Those were my first "easy" carrots. They seem to grow well mixed in with radishes in spring and mature fast and they even do well in pots. No thinning is required and they taste really good.
Great tip!
It's sad to see everything die from frost but I love the colors of fall. The colors around your house are so beautiful. Most of our trees here in N.E Pennsylvania are bare. The colors are gone so quick. Barely enough time to enjoy
I love the fall leafs and some of your flowers I’m looking forward to spring🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂❤️
Thank you for watching!
Hi Tipper
It's sad to see the garden dry up and die. But that's life in a garden right. Your flowers did really well. I have collar greens in my back yard . I love collar greens . I wash them well and then roll through like straws and cut them in strips, then I put olive oil and onions and garlic in the pan...then put them in the pan and salt and pepper and keep my eye and wait til they turn green and the take them out. I don't let them get soggy or welted this is how the Japanese cook them , and they are so good . Since I been home I eat the them every other day .with salmon or chicken breast . I hope you had a good Halloween love patsy
That sounds so good! Thank you Patsy 😊
Same in Nova Scotia Canada, first real frost last night
Thanks for sharing ❤🙏🏻❤️
Thank you for watching!
Winter garden shoes!
Most of my green tomatoes ripen just fine in the kitchen window.
That’s great Papaw 😊
I have never grown orange balm! Turbos begonia would be pretty in your tree planter; that is what I call it.
As the season changes, temperatures drop and days get shorter. Trees get less direct sunlight, and the chlorophyll in the leaves breaks down. The lack of chlorophyll reveals yellow and orange pigments that were already in the leaves but masked during the warmer months.
Around the area in South Carolina where I'm at..cow manure is used lot for gardens by the ole timey folks... and mushrooms just grow up right through the cow patties in a field... I've never really use compost in my garden, only miracle gro starting the garden out and bout twice a month during growing process n less as everything starts filling out n bringing stuff in... and I have good luck with vegetables being full n ripe to harvest... but it also depends on the soil and the if it's getting too much sun.. I plant lot of stuff in half shady areas.. cause some vegetables ain't suppose to get full sunlight during day 😊.. and I do water if no rain.. thank u for sharing 😊 and y'all have a beautiful blessed Halloween evening...
Thank you Lisa 😊
Love your videos Tipper
I'm so glad! Thank you 😊
Tipper if the moss roses come back they start showing in the late spring. They are just teeny little red stems that come up first. My Mama had them come back every year but I just can't get them to come back for me. I guess my thumb is a little less green than Mama's was. Lol. Good luck with yours.
Thank you for telling me what to look for 😊
I thought it was one here. 😮then you mentioned squirrel fussing😅 so enjoy these videos
😊 too funny Sandra
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Good morning
Thank you for watching 😊
Good morning 🙏 🌄 Tipper. How are you and the family. How are the grand babies.❤
We are well! Hope you are too 😊
Not sure if I've shared with you this one. The squirrels bury the acorns in my planters. Last spring we found one growing ig long root. Guess they forgot about that one😂
😊 oh goodness