You gave me a GREAT idea! (High tunnel plans, seedling tips and mulch) | VLOG
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Hey ya'll, I'm Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
Welcome to a place that feels like home. A small farm with a big family. We hope you'll pull up a chair, grab some coffee and visit awhile.
There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart - to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we've learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you're here.
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Thank you Jess for your devotional videos. Today was a hard day, watching my beloved husband of 39 years struggle through chemotherapy side effects. Amazing how a total stranger can help get me through a sad day. I am sure you brighten many lives. I don't comment on videos, but wanted to thank you for helping me, especially today.
Praying for you and your journey from a very familiar space that was also my life 17-18 yrs ago.. I pray your outcome is more promising than my late Husbands ended up. Keep Praying!🙏
@@debsenritchedrefuge603 Many thanks for your prayers. We are trying to stay strong and be worthy of God's grace and a cure. We are blessed that although he was stage 4 at diagnosis, he has a Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, that is curable. Through positive thoughts, prayers, good nurses/doctors, family, friends and a healthy lifestyle, we are fighting hard and going for the cure!
Prayers for you and your husband during this difficult time. God bless.
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For Susan and your husband, I will be remembering you in my prayer time.
Nothing heals a saddened 'gardening spirit' better than a field (or high tunnel) full of flowers! ...and the pollinators will love it!
Flowers on the tables in the coffee shop would be delightful.
I’ve found myself saying “Happy Birthday” to my newly germinated seedlings! 🌺🌶🍅
Me too! 😂❤🥳
Same here
Thanks for sharing the idea of test planting beans in soil to see if is good for growing crops
I just love that you have your rocking chair in your greenhouse.
I needed your heart today. Thanks for sharing
Our potato plants have frozen before-we left them alone and they came out of it. We have noticed we seem to have higher production those seasons.
Wow you have alot of cool stuff growing
Thanks for all the tips! Awesome info!
"Growing stronger with resistance " sounds like the beginning of another devotional. Many blessings to you and your family!
Just had to jump on here, & tell you I received my copy of your newest book, obviously "The FIRST-TIME Homesteader", two pages in; and you have already brought tears to my eyes, with your description of the romance of homesteading. You have a beautiful way with words. Thank you for sharing your classroom with us. My daughter is moving to Virginia, so I plan to make Leesburg part of my trip, on my first visit out there. Hoping she will come with, as your influence has helped bring her into the gardening mindset. Anyway, Thank you, for being the beautiful Blessing that you are. I Bless you & you precious family. Oh, also it is very special that you have included so many fantastic photos of your children. 😼
I love the cut flower idea. A perfect way to start good memories in that high tunnel
Waiting for your photo book..cause you take some great pictures
I am all for the cut flowers. It makes everyone happy.
I think that's why people talk to their plants. 🙏
I wish we could all just go back to when everything was organic and no sprays existed. I feel your pain, Jess.
It tickles me to hear you talk to your plants the way I talk to mine!
I seem to remember, about two years ago, how happy you were when growing those climbing roses over your gate at your last place. Would growing them here make your heart sing like it seemed to back then? Why not have them again? They were gorgeous!
Thank you Jess for your inspiration of starting these videos. You have educated me, inspired me… God has used you in such an amazing way in my life. Seeing how far you have come in all your hard work and just seeing you embrace what God has given you is just beautiful. May God continue to bless you and all you put your hands to do!!!
Your black turtle neck and brown jumper are giving me Audrey Hepburn at the beginning of ‘Funny Face’ vibes and I love it ❤
Jess.... can you do a video on nasturtiums and benefits of them please?
My garden mentor used to use an old artist paint brush to "tickle" the leaves! She would gently brush over the plant to do the same thing. I learned so much from her and loved the little names she gave techniques like this one.
Grow some dahlias and celosia! they would love the sc heat!
Most of the snow melted outside today. And it's 80° in my little greenhouse. Whew. I have a dozen cabbage babies & a big container of lettuce onions & radishes. They are almost ready to eat. When I saw you brush your hand over the tomato babies. Thought you were helping them grow better. I try not to bother my seedlings, don't want to hurt them. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Rule of them from when working in a commercial greenhouse. We NEVER transplanted tomatoes into their individual *cells/pots etc* until they had their first true leaves. Something I've carried over into my own planting and greenhouse
Yes!! A gorgeous flower tunnel is the perfect redemption! Flowers bring joy! I am seeding lots this year. I don't want to wait till I die to be surrounded by them! Lol!!!
Here’s to cool things in the world! 🥰
Hi Jess, thanks for the updates. Growing flowers in that high tunnel is a beautiful solution. Take care and God bless 🙏 💕
Time well spent watching your daily adventure ☺️ thank you ❤️
I too was greatly saddened the way the veggies grew in the new high tunnel last year. I thought of this scripture. “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. If I close my eyes and watch very closely I can see, in this years high tunnel, rows upon rows of delicious, happy flowers singing and praising our God.
Jack, thank you for those lovely words & thoughts!
Clay pots with candles
Your videos are so inspiring & relaxing...theres a sense of peace & fulfillment that comes across in your videos. Thank you for sharing your day, garden/farm & family with us ❤
We actually made a smaller heated grow closet inside our greenhouse so we could start seeds in February👍
I run to watch your videos because I am planting now too. I don't know enough to make videos, but I am doing an A frame greenhouse build.
I learn so much from you.
My 19th month old has me pick her up so she can touch the plants like mommy does.
What a beautiful redemption idea for that high tunnel. I think that is going to bring so much joy ❤️❤️❤️❤️
That’s such a great idea! Garden Answer has some really great videos on cut flowers that are more for personal use instead of market/ production.
So grateful to be sitting here listening & watching you Jess in your gorgeous greenhouse while editing some Senior Portraits I captured a couple days ago.. I still have snow on my gardens! There is hope in celebrating my Birthday & the First Day of Spring on the same day on the 20th! Bring on the Sunshine and warmer days, Lord!
You are truly inspiring in everyway Jess! Blessings Always ❤🌱🌷🪴🌱📷🙏🥰
A cut flower garden sounds so lovely! I can't wait to see it in a few months!
Thanks Jess. Redemption is always a good thing and growing God’s beautiful flowers in the greenhouse will be the perfect picture of how God can make something beautiful from something that couldn’t produce useful life. A greenhouse full of flowers, that’s a beautiful thought.❤️✝️🌺🌻🌸🌼🌹
Love Guatemalan designs. My daughter is Guatemalan and when I visited there to bring her home, I found several beautiful handmade items to save for her eventual hope chest. She's 19 now and at some point will have her own home to put those items in. Your camera strap is so pretty.
You are so lucky to be able to have land to grow and explore
Yaaaa I just tapped my trees today, I have 3 huge silver maples and two sugar maples so I'm in Minnesota we have had so much snow I had to walk in 2 to 3 ft to get to my back yard ...happy Maple season to all
Glad you have a plan for your tunnel. Looking forward to seeing rows and rows of beautiful flowers. Take care. ❇❇❇
🎉Happy Birthday Jesse! 🥳
In my dream you had a keyhole type garden in the high tunnel with flowers
Love your greenhouse and that beautiful chandelier...wow! Impressive
Bless you Jess !
I love your green house. One thing I would add is a cabinet with a deep sink with a faucet. Would make watering a lot easier, plus easier to wash your seedling pots.
Enjoyed the video. Look forward to seeing God’s beauty in your flowers.
Cut flowers are a beautiful idea❤
Thanks Jess for the video love watching you n learning new things you are an inspiration to us all again thanks for sharing
Thank you :) and God Bless you
Love the flowers idea ❤
Be strong
Thank you for posting. Today you gave me that burst of energy I needed to get out of my bed and get some things done that I needed to do thank so so much for being an inspiration and loving God the way you do it is so inspiring and helps me to understand more
Ohhh! I love that idea for the high tunnel! Great for renewal! 💜 I do miss the raised beds you had in the last high tunnel though. They were lovely.
Love your videos - garden, farm, animals - all of it. Just wishing you had closed captions available bc I'm hard of hearing and your voice falls in the range of sound that is troublesome for me. Any chance you might be going to do that? Also hoping Miah will do videos in the style of Will's - just let us watch him as he works around the farm. He's not as comfortable in front of the camera as you are, but it be interesting to see a day in the life of your fine man once in a while.
Thanks for sharing your experiences & wisdom! We can all learn, all of our lives! Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦
Always love your 📹 thanks so perfect
I planted around 12 Blue Queen Butterfly Pea 8 days ago. 1 came up around day 4-5. The rest - nothing. Really odd.
I am redeeming an area of my garden with cut flowers this year as well, Jess!! Last year my pumpkin patch was ravaged by cucumber beetles… So last year sadness is going to turn into this year’s joy!! 😊💕🌸🌼🌻
And truthfully, Jess, anything you grow in the space of your high tunnel will pull the contamination out of the soil. The flowers will heal your soul and heal your soil at the same time. Good gardening, my dear!💐🌸🌻🌼🌷🥀🌹🌺
I found your channel about 4 years ago when I first started gardening and man have I learned so much! Your tips set me up for success when I planted my first summer garden. Thank you for continually sharing your gardening wisdom with us, Jess.
Micro Dwarf - Vilma. Amazing. I've yet to find a Brad's tomato I've grown a 2nd season. I think I don't care for Anthos also?
I appreciate you and your videos so much. I learn and am so encouraged every time you teach what you do.
Love love love the idea of growing cut flowers in the high tunnel that was contaminated
I felt your angst as you walked into the tunnel the other day, you seemed to droop
Flowers will give you a boost and a new direction
Sweet Jess, I'm testing an area at my place for wild flowers that grow in Oklahoma. I purchased several pounds of seeds from Eden Brothers. Maybe try wild flowers in the high tunnel....just a thought.
I've gotten so excited watching your greenhouse growth I caught myself wanting to jump the gun but I know better😔 I tend to start early every year in March indoors but yes they get laggy and end up getting tossed. I'm trying to wait this year until maybe mid or end of April. The nice weather usually doesnt usually kick in till mother's day. I'm SE Wis. Maybe I'll just move to a warmer climate😁 thank you to you and your family for the videos. Im sure it takes a lot of hard work and dedication ❤️
Great idea to grow flowers. 💐
Yes Jess! Yes!! So exciting!! 💗🫶🏻 Grow all the flowers babe! Make beautiful bouquets 💐 to fill your home, heart and the hearts of others more lovely. 🌱🙏🏻
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У Вас всё очень мило и уютно 🧡🧡🧡
Thank you, Jess, for all your motivation. I think cut flowers are a great idea, too. Anything flowers already bring such joy in this world.
The rocking chair in your greenhouse is such an inspiration! A place to slow down and observe the seedlings.
I'm finding myself, sitting on the edge of a bed pulling out my flats to view my seedlings each day. What a joy it would be to gently rock, while I do the same daily observation. :)
Hope you are feeling better, love how your face lights up when you smile ❤️
I love seeing seedling updates :)
Straw is the shaft from wheat. My husband has worked in it for over 30 years. Love your videos, I've been watching them for years.
Yay a day with Jess ☺️
I think that’s a great idea to do cut flowers this year in your high tunnel. I’m sure it will be beautiful.
Love the cut flower idea! And excited that tomorrow is podcast day!! You got me hooked on podcasts. Just started listening to Proverbs 31 Ministries podcasts that I found while searching for more. You probably already know about em but if not, consider giving it a listen.
I like tomatoes i have it too. Pavorite of mine peppers like carolina .wish to have that plant soon
You should grow some flowers in the high tunnel that are native to your area as well. Beautiful.
Had to pause the vid and go ruffle my tomato seedlings. 😅 Thanks for reminding me. Now my finger smells like Tomatoes. 😎
Nice tip on the cosmos! I snipped the middle (top) off after it showed two stems underneath. It will grow so much bigger with these 2 stems!! (It’s the same like heading a pepper plant!)
I think cutflowers are a great idea!
Thank you clarifying the purple-ing on leaves of purple-ish plants. I’ve been trying to figure out why there were purple spots on the under sides of the leaves of my pink eye purple hill peas (first time gardener). Some people told me it was a problem but you just told me what it is. Thanks!
I have most of the same things you have started (Zone 6B) and like 7 out of 10 days is going to be/has been in the 20s overnight. D: Thankfully we have heat mats and a heater but it's the first time we've had to actually break it out in 3 years of having the greenhouse.
Cool camera strap
What a smart idea to grow cut flowers! And you can grow flowers that are known to detoxify or draw heavily from the soil, such as your beloved sunflowers.
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Hey Jess, it was great to see that you had some ground cherries started. Ironically, I just discovered them about 2 years ago and saved some seed from them... beforehand, I didn't even know they existed! They are not really a well known or talked about plant in my neck of the woods which is the Missouri Ozarks. I planted some of the seeds I saved from them recently in a seed starting mix and was wondering when is the right time to transplant them into a container that has some nutrition. Do I wait until they have a set of true leaves or can I go ahead and transplant them now with just the 2 leaves on? I have to add... that I am sooo envious of your greenhouses, high tunnels, and your entire set up. It's my dream to have something like what you have. What a blessing....and it's great to hear and see how you bless others not only with the extra plants, food produced, etc.... but with your knowledge and time. I've been pretty sick and I can't work as much or as hard as I want to in my garden.. things are moving a lot slower than I'd like but we do have the raised beds now...10 of them.. and about 1/2 of them are filled... it's such a busy time to get someone out here to level off the land for us and deliver the dirt and compost so this has taken me a lot longer than expected as well. I wish I'd started earlier! We are just now working on getting the supplies for the drip system... Anyways, there's always the fall garden too... and since I can only do what I can do.. I need to remember to enjoy the journey because that's really what it's all about.. Thank you again.. so MUCH!
I love the cut flower tunnel idea!
“Soul flowers”by Jess♥️buy a bouquet of flowers that healed the earth🥰
You're very brave using hay for mulch. I've done that...once. weeds forEVER.
Hay producer here. Second cutting grass hay should not have as much seed in it. May be more weeds. We have ground cherries in our.😅😅
Good morning ladies 😂
Loved the video, especialy the advices, thinking of planting in my pots inside the apartment: parsley, basil etc. Thank you! Elena Maria, Romania.
"Frost tender," me too! Just left Colorado to return home to Oregon. Such a huge difference in temperatures! So glad to be back home after a year of being gone. Thanks for the smiles that you bring to my heart as well as my face.
It brings me so much joy to think of that high tunnel filled with flowers. I've been watching you almost as long as I've been watching Garden Answer and it's so curious how you both came to the garden with somewhat opposite purposes, you to grow food and her to grow beauty, but the more I watch you, the more you become like each other. You buying the fountain for Ezra and her growing her many pounds of onions. Also, you both love to dig potatoes! @gardenanswer