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You are NOT the only gardener who doesn't like to handle bugs. I was impressed that you grabbed those horn worms with your bare hand. I will NEVER do that. 😅
Nothing is any better than coming home to a husband that has started dinner ❤❤❤❤
Nice job Miah
I love it when your videos are like this! It's just like hanging out with you in the garden and family. Thank you for sharing your life Jess! Your laid back take me as I am and I'll share what I think is so cool about life, it's exactly why we love you ❤
I was going to say the same thing! Loved this style vlog!
Not getting bit by mosquitoes... I knew you were a time traveler! 😂 (Outlander reference for anyone who doesn't know) ❤
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Jess I love when you get lost in your garden then stop and say ooh a strawberry! Just love that! Thank you for keeping it real and telling me that I can be a gardener.
I share this every time I hear that someone is having a difficult time with hornworms. About 4 decades ago I learned this control method from a neighbor, used it ever since with 100% effectiveness! It's gross but it's natural and it WORKS.
- Collect at least 4-5 hornworms and squish them in a glass jar (the gross part). Cover the jar and let the smashed carcasses "rot" for about a week.
- Put the rotted stuff into a sprayer and add water (exact amounts aren't important, just dilute).
- Spray all over, under and around the plants.
That's it! This repels ALL hornworms, so your garden is now safe from their voracious appetites. Oh, and since hornworms don't limit the eating to tomato plants, put it on your whole garden. It isn't harmful to anyone, any pets or any plants. It just repels the little buggers.
Thanks so much for sharing!!!
No joke? Wow, thank you so much! I wonder if it works for squash bugs? I think I'll try both!
@@marcialittle7893 Nope, doesn't work with squash bugs. Sorry. I use Beneficial Nematodes for those.
That Ben is adorable!
Yes, they are! I welcome a neighbor’s small flock of chickens and two ducks to free range my back yard. I’ve pulled a half dozen hornworms and fed them to the ducks, who are now consider me their BFF!
Epic Gardeners, Kevin and Jacques, recently did a comparison of 14 bagged potting mixes. Several they thought would be great were actually sub-par this year. Jess is prob spot on that companies haven’t let the bark/wood chips compost long enough before they added it to the mixes…
I usually swear by happy frog in the brown bag, but because it costs so much, I switched to the regular yellow miracle grow potting mix. I was floored because in the same season, the miracle grow plants did so much better. I don’t like non-organic potting mixes, but in a pinch it worked out great for my gteenstalks.
It makes so much more sense that I’m having a soil issue! I kept telling myself “this is new soil idk the problem” well!
“Do ya’ll get excited to eat foods?”
Oh, do I ever! You’re my people Jessica
Sowards. 😊
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Baseball is the coolest sport making on top of gardening ,love your choices Ben.
It is midnight and I have to tell myself not to make a cuppa coffee
As that helicopter flew over your farm, a life flight helicopter flew over my suburban neighborhood. We’re in the flight path of the major hospital a few miles from here .. the way the crows fly ❤
I think this was filmed a while ago,
Hi Jess I hope you and the family are well I know it's a long time since you heard from me but I have had some serious health problems I've been having seizures for about 3 months after my oldest brother died so I hope you and all your fans would consider praying for me to get myself healthy and well again I also became deaf I have to put captions on in order to see what you post but I'm glad to see you're still posting I always love what you teach us. As you know I love seeing your posts may God bless you your family and us after I became deaf last year after I lost my oldest brother 13 weeks before his 62nd birthday I became deaf I hope you and your fans will pray for me to regain my hearing and my family will gain their jobs and what they need.
Praying for you and your family. Sorry for your loss and health issues. God bless you.
Everyone tried 1 tablespoon yeast 2 tablespoon sugar in non chlorinated water in quart jar let set for 2 hours to overnight mix in 5 gal. Non chlorinated water I added a gal. Of compost tea 1 cup per plant. OVERNIGHT MY PLANTS GREW AND LOOK HEALTHY OVERNIGHT
Oh that’s like Fire cider in honey base! Garlic, hot chilies, onions - such good medicine for sore throats and colds
So nice to see you back in your garden with your smile beaming!
Oh wow! Big ones! You are braver than I am with those creatures! Yuck! Chickens will be happy!
So enjoying your story IG & FB posts from McMurray Fest and you meeting Charles Dowding and Our Modern Homesteading Conference in ID.. So great to share time with you in person! ❤👩🌾🌻🙌 Love you and what you stand for in Him ✝️
Garlic honey , balsamic vinegar and mayonnaise makes an amazing, creamy salad dressing.
Wow that's intriguing 😮
Absolutely must try this, this sounds amazing!
I love this video because you shared so much more of your personal life. VERY cool and chill ❤❤
That shade cloth is so cool, they did a great job! Holy smokes, the size of your basil! 😍
Call in Daniel for the hornworm hunting! 😂
Pesto, what a great idea! I think I have enough to at least make a small batch! Thanks for the inspiration!
💚 The shade cloth area looks great and is obviously cooler! Glad your Mosquito Fish have that new, cooler home. Wowzers, your basil is so prolific, bushy and beautiful! 💚
envy coming from here over the basil.
I have 3 greenstalks and the new one I got this year with new soil hasn't grown as well as my other two. It tickles me that you notice things like this too. I always feel like am the only one who notices everything about plants and how they grow. Xoxo from Missouri ❤
My new one isn’t doing as well either. I bought the pink one. Hi from Saint Charles MO 👋🏻
According to Permaculture Consultant channel, pond algae is very high in nitrogen and a good addition to compost
How can you not get excited about great fresh food!!!
After the situation with the contaminated compost a couple years back, I've been adamant about making my own compost. I still buy compost every growing season to make up for what I can't make but I always amend with my own compost with all the potting mix I make. I always sift (1/2" mesh) out the big bits for every product (peat moss, compost, my own compost) and put those big bits back into the compost bin to break down over the season. I pick out all the bugs from my compost and put back into the old compost bin. Is this time consuming? Yes. But my plants look awesome and I know what goes into the soil.
I noticed with the cow manure compost, it's good to sift because some of the balls in the compost are balls of poop that haven't broken down on the inside. So you're putting in hot stuff into your soil mix. Always always sift.
Fermented garlic and honey is amazing on so many things. We love it on top of pizza!
I have had success planting calendula between my tomatoes. Medicinal and keeps thoes darn bugs away. however we have had a plague style invasion of grasshoppers this year that nothing i have done has even put a dent in them! My garden is shredded!
Calendula! I'm trying it next season (FL)!
Where are you at?! I’m in SE WY and they are everywhere!!!
Oh that’s awful! They are difficult to address.
@@abundantacre9SW NE 😎
Same here. The grasshoppers are plague-like this summer.
Fun to go to your garden with you. Thank you for the encouragement about the green stock planters
Oh my gosh Jess your poor little face is beet red. I love both of your channels. You have such a soothing voice. Its just so relaxing to listen to you.
I know how you feel, I also have ADHD too. My husband chose an older home for us to move in. The entire 2 floor is a loft full of closets with clothes hangers.
This year I decided to reuse all the old, dry, weedy, used up soil in every plant-pot I had. I grabbed my biggest garden pot, pulled all the weeds and clumps of roots I could, and added bag soil and compost. This year, things are growing well. I'm still very much in the classroom stage, but this feels like progress. All lessons are of value. ❤
in my country we roast the eggplants, peel them, drain them and store them usually whole in the freezer for use during winter (the last few years I've also seen them commercially frozen like this, so it seems to be an actual thing, not just an empirical practice)...it's not *exactly* the same as fresh, but almost (also, have you tried putting the eggplants whole either on the Blackstone or on a bbq, so they get the charred exterior whilst cooking the interiors? the smokiness makes them even better than roasted in the oven)
A tomato sandwich from the first picked tomatoes is my craving.
Hi Jess!! I feel ya about the closet. I'll have to find another video of yours to listen too as I attempt it later. I have gotten so saddened when it comes for to my garden, but when I saw a bumblebee in my rose of Sharon way back collecting pollen that made me smile. Thanks sweetheart!!
So encouraged that it’s “not me” but the soil or companies. I was wondering! Thank you! This makes a lot of sense in my garden as I have some that are not fully green like my basil or some tomatoes plants and have been fertilized in green stalks and containers and in ground.. all bagged soul of different brands and plants with different issues.
Pest problems started at the get-go, and last year hardly any pests. Ugh. NOT GIVING UP!
Xxoo
You were spot on about the purchased soil and amendments. Most of my plants that survived in those areas are finally starting to grow. Going forward, I will work harder at making my own compost. Don't give up!
Sadly I was not able to Garden this year but I hope to go all out next season
Mosquitos don't bother me. Them dang yellow flies do though. Omg they hurt!
About preserving eggplant, I make a Filipino dish that starts with grilled then smashed eggplant. I have grilled the eggplant and then froze it by itself to use it later in the winter. It turned out good. A lot if liquid comes off of it when you defrost the eggplant so you have to make sure to drain it well before using in a dish.
Fun video! Thank you!
I had one absolutely decimate my biggest cherry tomato plant last week. I was miffed.
So Much Love! Sincere Love!
For you, your precious family, your garden, your recipes & that you share from the heart!
Sincerely your heart.
May I just say, ~
YOUR AWESOME!
THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU!
Jess! I adore your hamster-wheel days. Often that's when you're the most inspirational, for me, anyway. Sending love Love LOVE, girl.
I have been gardening for 40 years and this is the first year I've seen a hornworm, picked about 8 of them off my plants. Hoping I got them all.
Yes it's ridiculous hot. I'm in Georgia. We have had zero rain. Zero meaningful rain so I ha e to water daily in this 100+ degree and 80% humidity.
Yep. I'm in E TN and I've had to water everyday for weeks now. The rain we got was just surface level in the past week. So still have to water everyday so that the soil doesn't become hydrophobic.
Celebrating the opportunity and responsibility to creatively steward our garden spaces with mini-ponds, etc
EGGPLANT MEATBALLS you will love them!
...and Miah rocks for starting dinner while you entertain us!!!
The helicopter pruning of the trees along corridors is amazing. We live near a gas pipeline and I got to see the pruning with a huge vertical saw with a whole line of circular blades. Like a giant hedge trimmer, it makes short work of it, and the best part was watching the incredible pilot landing the saw, lying it down skillfully and safely landing his bird. Thank you for this amazing glimpse of everyday life while you live in your space. Your garden is getting many "rooms" to enjoy.
That just jumped off the screen/page at me bc I live in California where the PGE has Not trimmed the trees near the power lines and massive fires have resulted including deaths! Now I have an alternative method to give them not that they will use it; they just keep raising our rates.
Breath of hell out there
Your mosquito pot is so cool
You are so positive and I just love that…. You make me smile and laugh out loud, which is awesome after a hard day at work. One more year and I will retire at 71 and can’t wait to spend everyday in my garden and flower beds. How did you like my beautiful Idaho? Hopefully next time I can meet you!
Girl!! That video cover photo! 😂😂😂 You are legit in my top 3 favorite creators. Thank you for being authentically you. ❤ You're lovely all around.
Jess, I see things I don’t want so I through them in a doom pile in my bedroom. I tell myself I’m waiting for a super hot day to work indoors. It’s been there 3 months and it’s growing. I feel your pain.
I'm also a gardener who doesn't like bugs.
I taught my husband to salt soak cabbages, the disaster happened when he forgot about them and after a few days we had a 5 gallon bucket of "zombie cabbages" 😂 they stank, he certainly learnt his lesson and gave us all a good giggle
I loved getting to meet you this weekend and getting to give you a big hug! It’s such a joy getting to spend time with you in the garden and with your family, you have this way of speaking directly to my heart with each video ❤ I hope you were able to take a good long rest after the weekend was over!
Hi Ms. Jessica. I watch all your videos and have been on guard when purchasing new soil if I've wanted to plant a new rose or some other plant. I've used half home made compost and half bagged soil with good results. It's important to note that the compost is home-made and I know what has been used in the composting process. I wouldn't be so nonchalant if I was using purchased compost. God bless you.
I love it when you said I’m not going to get lost in here, which was the high tunnel then you said oh there’s a strawberry and you picked it. 😂😂😂😂
Love me a cute little hornworm little buggers. 💕 🐛😂
I love walking through your garden with you. I'm going to be moving across states the end of this month so I don't have a garden this year and I miss it more than I can say. Seeing yours keeps my heart happy. Blessings.
It's been raining steadily for a week here and my poor zucchini babies that I put into the ground a week ago have been decimated by the slugs UGH
Omg we are so much alike! No wonder I resonate so much with you! I have so many hobbies and have such a hard time with organizing (ADD) because I get overwhelmed. I have been watching you promote Greenstalks for years and finally got 2 for myself for Mother’s Day. I used a mix of Happy Frog, our own compost, perlite, pro-mix, and another local soil and my Greenstalks are indescribable as to how lush they are. You would be mind blown! Gardening can be challenging in Colorado. My Greenstalks are doing so well that I got one for my husband for Father’s Day, the “inventor’s bundle”. I just got some seeds in it yesterday. I am so excited to see that one fill out too. Thanks for all your inspiration over the years. I wish I could have your success but I’m not good at filming myself or being at a computer. You are living the dream! I’m not as young as you, but I haven’t given up on someday having land and a cow or two. For now, I’m just an urban homesteader with a few chickens and a garden. But it’s still a full time job! I don’t know how you do all of this!
Where are you in Colorado? I am in the foothills in Loveland. Yes, it is challenging and this year has been super dry up here, the rain clouds just pass over us dropping a pittance of moisture before heading out over the flatlands.
Colorado viewer here too! Up in Breckenridge. Gardening is a challenge up here!
Likewise I am an urban homesteader and at 64 still dreaming of my 5 chickens and 3 dwarf nubian goats. Last winter I built the terraced vegetable garden. This winter I am expanding that and finishing planting companions in my rose garden. Now I plan to interplant our backyard lawn with grazing plants suitable for chickens and goats, and prepare for building shelters.
I'm in Colorado also, but at 9,200 ft! I'm a new gardener, and boy, has it been challenging! I so appreciate this video because I'm having the same soil problem Jess described. I thought it was me!! and I was getting so discouraged. I now have a few things to try and won't give up. Thanks Jess. Let us know how your treatments work. God bless.
I wish I could be you . I'm sure that I am older than you (72) .In an apartment the same one for the past 31 years. Now they have sold the building, and we must move ? Have no idea where. Hopefully there will be space for a garden , like here, but doubtful. Fingers crossed. Wish me luck.
So true about the potting soil this year. I have been having nothing but trouble since I started seeds. Frustrating, but I put the wimpy plants into the ground anyway. The containers, I will fertilize. This year the garden comes with the feeling of ...it will be what it will be! Good video.
Jess I just love your enthusiasm. It just keeps me coming back. God bless.
Oh that was so cute. I was watching Benjamin speaking and I just got an eye full of how much like Miah he is!!!
Miah you are such an amazing guy. Your for sure a rarity in today's world. Your whole family is amazing. Such a joy to watch, and see the love that you all have and share with each other. God Bless
My closet has been on the list for a year, but I have had time to start 3 new hobbies! lol hubby finally did it for me a couple weeks ago 😂
Jess, I have a hard time sorting through all the things in my small home. I'm overwhelmed a lot of the time and find myself with a lot of unchecked to-do lists. I'm in no way a minimalist but I started listening to the minimal mom podcast and it has been very encouraging for me. In case you've never heard of it, give it a listen. It could help you to feel motivated!
I love when your videos are just laid-back I have ADHD too, so I get the hamster wheel syndrome. Also, you are brave to touch that worm!! Hoping you are at the next farmers market I’ll be driving through and have been wanting to meet you for years ❤
I’m a gardener who doesn’t love bugs either. I respect them in their space/place in our ecosystem, I even invite and welcome them.. but 🤢. I’ve been picking potato beetle egg and larvae off my tomatillos .. so gross 😂
Oh my you just explained me! I tried today, but I realized this Winter I bought ALOT of blankets, throw blankets. But I have grown very fond of those bags that you can stuff with so much and vacuum the air out to compress them. Well they’ve been my lifesaver with my seasonal things, that I still want lol…
We have a lot of bats around our house and property. I believe that is why we don’t have a lot of mosquitos. Do you notice any at dusk? I live in Piedmont, SC ( between Anderson and Greenville). I started watching you before you moved to Batesville area. I was so excited you are so close so I know when to plant things around the same time as you. I love watching your videos and it has helped me be a better gardener. I love how you have transformed the bare land into all the beautiful spaces you have now! It is very inspiring !!! I have outgrown raised bed garden I started 3 years ago and this year have expanded into a huge in ground garden, berry and orchard area. It is a work in progress, but i have it pictured in my head and it will be beautiful !
A BLT !!! That’s my thing! A Cherokee purple tomato on a BLT ! Yessssss! I know it’s not preserving, but man! A BLT! Yum ! That’s summer to me!
It was so good to meet you this weekend in Idaho! You are so kind and gracious. ❤
I love that smile in the beginning 😊 it's so contagious ❤️
Girl I’m a gardener who doesn’t like bugs either lol I’ll be walking around and then start screaming 😂😂 because a bug touched me! I can’t believe you picked it off with your bare hands. I could never! 😂
I live in Tucson, AZ. Our entire backyard is covered with shade cloth and that is where my garden is. Because of the shade cloth I am able to grow through the Summer when temps can reach 115 degrees here. Plants still have a rough go of it and it matters what you are planting when here. But, with the cloth it can be done!
The still picture that TH-cam used for your video is just perfect. TH-cam did ya wrong! 😂👌 P.s I'm not laughing at you, Jess. I'm laughing with you! 🤍
I picked a hornworm off of one of my Greenstalk’s yesterday. It is only the 2nd or 3rd one in my 7 years of growing! I bought 2 tomato plants from a nursery and I think it hitched a ride with them. I start most from seed and I feel like it has made a difference in my ecosystem. I had no idea why my tomato plant was looking so homely but there he was, chewing on leaves and looking me right in the eyes without a care in the world!
I forgot about peppergate and I have soooo many BANANA PEPPERS🫠 and zero jalapeños 😂
I had a hard time growing anything the first year I gardened. It was the soil. I also found out that the right soil makes all the difference. This year everything is so lush and beautiful. If you are having trouble with poor growth, insects problems and other problems, please don't give up. If you feed the microbes in your soil instead of feeding your plants most of your problems disappear. If you are getting bitten by mosquitos you may be low on vitamin B. Mosquitos don't like vitamin B complex. If I take it regularly, they never bother me. They don't like onions and garlic either. It makes them sick. I grow my tomatoes in the shade of a hedge and they get partial sun. They are doing so well this year. We are just starting to eat boysenberries, blueberries, and cherry tomatoes. They are totally worth the wait. I love Basil. Can you tell I have A.D.D. too? I bless you.
Eggplant Parmesan is my garden's greatest blessing. 😋. And I wait for it every year !
I love your shade cloth area!💕
I had a major surgery with some difficulties last year. 😅I STILL gardened. Last season and this season have been a hands-off approach. Started the seeds, planted them, let the family help water and fertilize. No fussing over trimming suckers or lower branches or plucking weeds. I’m surprised at how well my gardens have done without me fussing over everything. Plants just wanna grow. I live not terribly far from you. Surprisingly, I have not had much of a pest issue interfere with a good harvest.
Thank you so much for just being honest about how you want to do something but you don't want to do something but you need to do something that helps me a lot to get busy to do what I need to do. Love mamaZ
I grow real food and flowers exclusively in 10 Greenstalks and 4 raised garden beds. This year I added 4 Greenstalks (two pink full of flowers now) and two raised garden bed, so I did have to use new soil. I used Promix, add worm castings, and granular feed before planting. I have liquid fertilizer, which I am about to use based on when I planted. But it is a science, what works, what doesn't work, so I take a lot of time keeping notes. I'm 100% responsible for the success or failure of my garden. You and Matthew have provided so much good advice and inspiration, that I continue to grow my garden. Trying to convince myself I don't need to take advantage of Greenstalks anniversary sale...
You have inspired me to do that closet clean-out needed at my house for a few years. Thank you for kicking my but into gear.
"I'm not going to get lost in here. Ooh, a strawberry!" Yes, that's me over here ROFL.
The shade cloth is wonderful, ai can hear in your voice how nice is it to stepp under it out of the sun!
Honestly, have adhd here also. I find with a baby now, I have to go through longer cycles of collecting dopamine through focusing more on being outside and tending the garden and set a time when its really hot and we need to stay inside to cool down to tackle a big organization project. It took me a long time to even begin to understand what "dopamine mining" actually is for me and why it matters. It's also just what is necessary to try to live healthily and seasonally for some of us.
I got a green stalk this year and the stores only had peppers for veggie starts. So I learned that next year I’ll start my own seeds. Not giving up.
15:45 i may have just ::gasped:: as you chopped the top half of the basil off in one swift snip! 😳 😆
I pray next season I have an abundace and can feel free to do the same! ♡🙏
How fun that you have mosquito fish Jess! I unintentionally have mosquito tadpoles in my rain buckets! I love frogs, so it makes me happy! I also use BT when necessary. Peace and Blessings busy lady 🌱🌻🐝
Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
21:16 I just today, NOW, finished eating the first tomato sandwich from Dad's garden. Yes, I get excited.
Awesome "Super-man cape" shade-cloth. !! Yes 3 years already !!!, Feels like 1@1/2 at most on the new Home-stead. The closet let-it-be-known that it likes the idea of a re-set. Lovely video.
I put up shade cloth over my garden in Austin, and it did help keep the plants alive through summer, but they didn’t produce until it cooled down again in the fall. The unexpected best thing about it though - it made it so much more pleasant for me as the gardener. Super noticeable temp drop under the shade cloth. Helped me keep up with weeding and planting during the high heat of summer.
I purchased a small cement mixer and I put my garden dirt that I buy by the truck load then I add other supplemental soils and additives, then I dump it in a wheelbarrow and put it in my beds. it makes it so easy and saves time.
❤I just early morning watered my back yard garden, porch containers and greenstalks with fascination that I have lush plants with old soil and new soil. I used Miracle Grow Potting Soil (yellow bag) in new containers and amend with fish fertilizer in water once a month. I don’t usually get hornworms since I winter feed birds sunflower seeds in my garden area and plant garlic in many beds over winter so between the left over garlic smell in the soil and wild birds even in my gardens without summer seed. Squirrel - I make a new list every day on a post it from what’s on my day planner and mind to get done. I don’t finish everything, but it gives me a reminder by my coffee cup as to whatI’m supposed to be doing. 😂