Yesterday was our last day before the freeze and my daughter, her boyfriend, and I were getting all the tender crops in and clearing the garden and I said to her, “ this is kinda sad.” My daughter had the best reply & it changed my heart.... she said, “ no Momma, it’s not. Just look at our buckets, they are full!”
Not to mention other costs associated with buying at the store.. fuel, wear and tear to vehicle, time, packaging that ends up in the landfill.. increased nutrition of home grown, mental health of working in the garden, time with your family and kids as you labor together, etc etc etc..
Since you have so many animals it might be worthwhile to heat your greenhouse with hot compost. Use some pallets or old wood to create a box, load it up with manure and bedding, then add trays, and plant on top. As the compost cooks, the heat rises to the plants above. Then in the spring you have seedlings and compost for your garden beds. 😁
So sad to see the end of the season. You're lucky and industrious to have been able to extend yours with a greenhouse. I wonder if you were to call a window replacement service, if you wouldn't be able to get some windows people are taking out. It's common to see a dozen windows for trash pick up here. People put them out early hoping someone will take them. When you do build your window greenhouse, set aside a little time to wonder about all the things people stood at those windows and waited for, and all the babies parents watched grow up on the other side of the glass.
It's the most sad time of year. I miss my garden too. I've already ordered a ton of seeds and the new catalogs arent out yet so I'm going crazy without gardening to keep me busy. It's like I have to relearn eveey year what normal people do everyday.
Finally someone who feels the way I do about the transition into Winter! I get all emotional and then feel silly for it. Thanks for giving those feelings some validity😄
I am scrambling to pick the last of my not so cold hardy vegetables. Trying to beat this cold front coming into Arkansas. Not ready for this cold to start but I know the earth needs to rest. So I will enjoy and be thankful for the last bit of fresh vegetables. God bless you and your family.
Jess, next year you can cut the bean vines at the ground leaving the roots with their nodules in the ground for both the humus and the nitrogen thus improving your soil for the next crop.
I hope you got everything you wanted picked. Your plans for a huge glass greenhouse sound exciting! I think those curly haired pigs are gorgeous! I've never seen a breed like that before. I love the diversity in Nature. 💗💕
If you are going to spend the night outside in the garden I think I would be sleeping in the green house! You are so inspirational. I had that harvest of seven green beans from one plant and I enjoyed every one of them. : )
Are back with a smile I hate the transformation from Summer to Winter but it's okay it's just a few short months you'll be right back at it I love your little family and all the encouragement you give blessings
A method for heating greenhouses in the winter is to use a wood burning stove. The iron heats up and releases heat over time, additional to the fire itself. This is one option. A stone oven (made one out of bricks and lined with mud) could be another way to heat your greenhouse. The bricks will hold the heat and release it over the course of the day (or night). One fire lit in the evening would be enough to heat it through the night and into the morning of the next day at the very least. Cold Frames are another option. You wouldn't have to heat the greenhouse at all, because the cold frames are effectively mini greenhouses within a greenhouse.
I feel your pain,,,, But I’m 64 and ready for the seasonal rest. We have snow coming into Michigan Friday morning, through the weekend, On to our inside chores for the winter.
It's snowing here in Nebraska today, our first substantial snow fell on Oct. 14 this year (3 1/2"), so enjoy your last big harvest. And yes a 5 gallon bucket of food in November counts as a big harvest in my book. Canned green beans from the store never taste like home canned beans, so you are absolutely correct to get what you can, while you can, and you can't really put a true value on homegrown, as you well know. I do still have some cabbage, kale and celery hanging on, without any protection from the cold, but have been enjoying watching your fall garden....and those zinnias are still gorgeous!
Watching these videos from a year ago and I'm amazed at how much you have accomplished since then! Rose planter by the gate, high tunnel, etc. Great advice to take the whole plant out to harvest from inside
OMG Sharyn you nailed it. I have noticed in comments how OFTEN people comment on how cute these two are, how much people notice how lovey-dovey they are. Sometimes I think that might be 50% of the draw of this channel - people just love how much love there is. Also, it's not just "Ryan Gosling", it's the "Girl" giving it right back. It's what people want to see, and there it is, just like that. Plus goats and zinnias.
BTW that just isn't like that on other homesteading channels, where people are clearly on the same team, on the same bat channel, all that. This one is like watching Samantha and Darryn (Darryl?) on Bewitched. OK, you guys are a TV show now...
♥♥♥ So glad we found out about you at the conference last month!!! Our mom is sad about the frost coming too, but excited to use winter to plan the spring garden! We started eating our moms canned green beans after she started adding a piece of shallot or sweet onion to the jar. A piece of onion (2 pieces in a quart) seems to mellow the flavor. Then when she heats them for supper she adds a tablespoon of leftover ham or bacon (cooked & diced)from the freezer to add flavor. ♥♥♥
It's finally getting cooler here at night, Panama City Florida, but I'm missing my garden. My garden was doing really well then Hurricane Michael came and destroyed it. I'm so sad about that. Planning and dreaming of a spring garden. It will be my 3rd garden. I appreciate all of your advice and knowledge!
Enjoyed todays lesson! Wonderful bounty. The greenhouse looks wonderful! I did some hay bale gardening this summer. The green beans loved it! Bless you're sweet heart. You did so great this summer! Don't dispar! We will have lots of fun with winter stuff and greenhouse goodies.
I am looking through some older videos as I only joined recently and I am chuckling over the window Greenhouse as now we are waiting in anticipation for the BIG reveal LOL
I'm sad watching you wrap up for the winter. I have gotten so used to hanging out with you in the garden, it is like I am wrapping up the season, and I am in California. We have yet to see rain, much less the killing frost. I will let you get to cleaning the beans and canning.
@@brigittelm6054 the garlic, onions, dragon tongue beans, some peppers (some not), and the tomatoes were pretty okay. I struggle with cool weather crops usually. I am in the central part of CA about 35 mile from Sacramento. My Fav's? Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and green beans, though I don't do well with beans because of spider mites. My nemesis.
Think of the money you save from having to go to the grocery store..... that adds up,too. Maybe this's taste will change as they get older, mine did. I'm going to have cement pavers for the floor of my greenhouse. The stone will collect heat during the day, release it at night. Also, I was thinking of filling clear containers with water,inside the structure,to also collect heat and release at night...self heating greenhouse....
It’s hard to shut the garden down for winter. All that work that got done seems to have been for nought, even when you’ve been eating from it all summer and putting food up for winter. I almost get depressed. We had a garden doing just great but were forced to move back in July and, while we still own the property with the garden, it’s eleven miles away. I’m in a wheelchair quite often and really need to start getting a new garden started for next spring, so I’m starting from scratch by loading our new kitchen garden with vegetable matter so it can decompose over the winter. Time to work hard and hope for the best next year. With just my wife and I, pints and half pints are about as big as I go. Blessings!
Those goats are a hoot !!! running to your wagon full of greens !!! I've never seen that !!! Irene here,,,I know it's sad cutting everything back, I feel the same... I still left my pineapple sage, which is HUGE , because its loaded with bees and I can't get near it , but its going to get real cold here too ( zone 7) Knoxville area and I cut almost all my plants back !!! So sad ! Thanks for sharing !
Check out Eliot Coleman's book "The Winter Harvest Handbook". He's up in Maine and has mastered winter gardening. I prob wont get this right, but every time you add a layer of greenhouse plastic, you gain something like 2 zones to the south. He originally had cold frames inside of hoop houses. But he learned that using fabric/mesh draped over the plants worked just as well. I don't think he used much for heating, if at all. He's very focused on keeping costs low because he has to sell and make a profit - which as you can imagine isn't very high. I think he has a lot of great vids on youtube too. Good luck!
Caught myself doing the same thing today. Picking the last of the patio tomatoes and the ginger. Couldn't make myself go in knowing it's the last of the year. I don't have a greenhouse yet so now all I have are the tomatoes I transplanted indoors for next spring. My hubby doesn't like yard work and s grumpy even about mowing. I will ask about a greenhouse come spring. Enjoy your last taste of warm weather and think about spring and starting over. Love your new fuzzy pigs, they look made for the cold. Take care and pass around hugs, much love and peace. Blessings. ♡☆♡☆♡
Try bacon fried beans. Kids like them more. I tried raised beds, but the fire ants loved them too much. You can eat the greens off broccoli, kinda like collards. I canned the last of my tomatoes today, tender/turnip greens yesterday. I am ready for a break! Two months then back at it so take time to enjoy the small break. Have a good one!
try dilly beans, they're really yummy n healthy too, lol- i just found y'all the other day n been binge-watchin lol- i actually noticed y'all by your cattle panel vertical garden pic, awesome! ty 4 all y'all post n Father Bless
What is the deal with kids and green beans?! Haha! I grew up believing that all veggies grew in cans so eating anything fresh that I grew, no matter how small, has been so rewarding. I am so thankful for your channel and the knowledge you share so I can increase that yield!
My dog, Toby, got very excited when your dogs, goats, and pigs came into the video, like kisses and licks to your herds. I hear you about putting value on what you grow. Even if it's just about freshness, I go for it. We got very few tomatoes this year in SF Bay Area, it just got cool and foggy in July and August, but they are still coming in, and I ripen them indoors. I got loads of pumpkins and spaghetti squash, so I am learning to make spaghetti squash fritters and pumpkin pasta and pumpkin curry. My mustard greens (3 varieties from Baker Creek), collards, cauliflowers, cabbages, peas, and onions are what I'm tending now. I have kale from earlier but I don't really like it much, I really should find more recipes for it. My lettuce is gorgeous, now. Planting favas, not sure if they're for me or for the soil, but now's the time. I sure do love beans.
Anxious to hear what you decide bout heating your greenhouse. I want to heat mine but cost has been just too much. Thanks for all the great information. Love and peace.
Just harvested the last of my green beans too. Found several peppers too. Hard frost coming for us this weekend too. Moved all my citrus trees inside under lights. 😕
For heat in your greenhouse I recommend a couple of old hot water heater tanks, stripped of insulation on the outside and painted black. Filled with water, they soak up the heat and act as thermal mass to hold heat overnight. Or use steel 55 gallon drums. They’re just the right height to hold shelves for trays of seedlings or micro greens. I even once put a home built wood stove in a greenhouse, surrounded by the drums full of water. That worked out well. The water got hotter faster and held it long after the fire went out. But I’m in New Mexico and live at about 5000ft elevation. Hot summer and cold winter weather. Blessings! I saw you on Living Traditions and have subscribed. You have a sweet spirit about you! God bless you and yours!
I always leave my roots in the garden. If it dies, I just leave it in a pathway and me and the kids (I’m a home daycare worker, no kids of my own) stomp them down over time. I’m also the lucky being who lives in Zone 10 so my growing season is reversed - I start in October and end in May so I spend the summer inside, swimming, or planning. I just ordered a passion fruit vine and some grape vines and I’m looking forwards to some long term eating. - Jacob
Thoughts as I watch: I feel ya on soaking up all the garden vibes. I did the same a few weeks ago when I put my garden to bed. It about broke my heart to say goodbye....2018 was a stellar year for my humble little garden. Oh, and green beans....yes! I have a small garden space, only about 20 ft by 25 feet but we love our green beans in this house. I took a good chunk of my space and planted the heck out of the green beans. I did succession planting on the beans so that I would have beans all summer. We ate fresh green beans at least twice a week all season long, and I still was able to freeze some for Thanksgiving dinner. Your garden was beautiful, Jess. It was a place of beauty and peace, not only for you, but for all of us who came to visit your garden via TH-cam. Now, to rest and dream and plan for next year.
Ya'll are so adorable. I love watching your videos so much. My mamma had a green thumb and could grow anything and watching your videos bring back so many memories of her and my daddy. I've never seen a pig with long curly hair. What kind of pig is that? I look forward to every one of your videos. I subscribed and did the bell so I won't miss any. Love ya'll and God bless you too
Wondering if you could can green beans with ham hocks and will it store well? We had our first frost last night. I just brought my container plants in yesterday before dark, thank the Lord. Good gravy, those pigs have curly hair! Lol. Love the greenhouse.
O gee here in Northern West Michigan we laugh about how green beans are like Neigheor makers just like Squash lol when they come into harvest you have to pick them Twice a day to keep up with Just maybe 5 plants. That’s were you Ding Dong Ditch Hey Neibor comes in lol
I absolutely LOVED this video. You and Miah are so sweet. I truly wish I had someone to build gardens with and that could build me a greenhouse. I too am sad to see winter come. Here in CT you really need a greenhouse to grow beyond October.
One of my favorite things to do is watching your videos while I am processing my small garden bounty. Last night I peeled and seeded almost a whole sink full of ripe tomatoes to begin the making of Marinara Sauce. (Couldn't do that while watching :) but tonight I harvested half of my marjoram and a good amount of my thyme. I sat down here at my computer with it and two paper plates and just enjoyed visiting with you as I stripped all the leaves off. This room smells amazing right now and my heart is happy.
Oh yes I’m doing the same! I still have peppers on the plants. Scrambling to get things ready before the temps drop tomorrow. BUT... it’s a great time to drop seed that need cold stratification! Lavender, poppies, etc. ❤️
I have been searching for the blue cook of my moms. It has our family green bean canning recipe. I grew up eating them and it is the only way my son will eat green beans. It has a touch of sugar and a splash of vinegar. When I buy canned beans I drain the liquid off and add a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of vinegar and heat them and they are similar in taste for a commercial bean. The best thing about the bean recipe is they are water bath canned because the beans are blanched and a hot brine is poured over them, so it changes the ph to high enough for the "pickling effect" but not enough that the beans taste pickled. Mom always poured off the picking juice and cooked them in water but I prefered to use the brine and just heat them up. They had more crispness to them. I will find the recipe and share because it cuts down on the time needed for big batches. This is an old, 100yo family recipe.
kudos to you and your beans and garden harvest haul may it fill you and your family with every ounce of sunshine it took to grow and keep your souls filled with joy. ☺
We got hit by frost a couple of weeks ago. It was coming and I scrambled to get all the sweet potatoes harvested. I miss the garden all big and beautiful, but I am tired and look forward to the rest.
so sad to see the end i know mine has been done for over a month and i have a couple inches of snow...My garden looks so sad...or maybe that's me projecting :( But it was a good year and like you i am already making plans for spring...I will be expanding the garden again I just can't help myself ...Have fun canning Jess i ended up with over 100 jars of green beans and enjoyed them fresh for months also they did really well this season God Bless Friends
Jess, OYR frugal and sustainable organic gardening has a great video about growing in an unheated greenhouse through winter. And I think he's in zone 5 if I remember correctly. I don't have a greenhouse, so I can't try any of his suggestions yet. I do have a plan to turn my pack porch into a green house for starting seeds this spring though! 😁 Good luck with the greenhouse! And God bless!
?Do you prefer Jess or Jessica? Sorry side tracked....next spring will you pull out the green bean roots or just keep turning them under. I did leave mine in but not sure what to do next spring. Thanks for all your help.
Hey jess! Just a thought, but maybe next season you can try going some grains in that flat section of your garden. No more buying chicken feed and maybe you can make your own flour :)
Oh no !, not the mommy monster. I love spinach(and green beans, too), though, I am also especially fond of zucchini ! Saute in avocado or olive oil with shrooms, onions, SPG and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
@@indianne9781 An abbreviation for salt pepper and garlic. Always seek answers to questions ! Frankly, I agree with the sentiment that "there is no question that is a stupid question"...even if the answer may seem simple and therefore obvious, our minds can often complicate things unnecessarily, don't hesitate to ask if in doubt ! I am sorry for the long winded answer.
Hey Jess. I sent you a package from Baker Creek. I hope I sent you varieties that you haven't tried. If by chance I sent you something that you dont like please feel free to gift it to someone else that can benefit from it. Thank you to Jeremiah for the Phone call to help get my typo straightened out ( Mail Address I sent to Baker Creek). Emailed Baker Creek and they said my Gifts to you are on the way~ Stay Blessed!!! Just a FYI I did send you one that My grandfather always planted when he taught me how to garden. I got my green thumb from him. I hope you enjoy all of the seeds and Stay blessed
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Jess. I wish I could garden again. One day I will do it again other than flowers (only thing we can plant )!!! The one i sent that means the most to me is Cushaw Squash. Miss my Grandpa! Stay Blessed!! Oh and you may be able to wash things with a certain fruit from the seed I sent... Cough Cough Living Traditions Homestead (HINT HINT) . LOL!
Blanch, and freeze then use the green beans as you wish, in soup, or stir fry beans with roasted almonds. I LOVE them that way so much more than any other way. Maybe your boys would give the fried ones a try, the almonds really flavor it up nicely.
I have an Idea for you. maybe next year you could do a family taste test. tasting the difference tomatoes you grow to see which one they like best. same as beans and etc, just a thought. thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day.
I stomp my feet when the first frost comes but it does not stop it. The one blessing is no flies!! I miss my garden it has been over for a month already. Glad I get to see yours
new subscriber.....really like your channel. I live in NW Arkansas. My ultimate dream is to one day build a year around green house with a room inside to live in. Your videos are inspiring and I am also learning much. Thank you for inviting us into your life and home. God bless!
@@myfriendtruth9177 😉 np ya know i pass a lovely home w a covered walkway that extends from the house to a detached garage. A covered walkway thats open to airflow maybe even screened in for further bug free comfort could be what attaches ur wee living space/gardeners cave to the green house 🤔! Happy planning! Were dreaming up an outdoor kitchen/patio integrated design thats got an enclosed space that's bug and critter free for sanitary cooking purposes and a very neccessary wind block.
You might contact someone who is a window replacement company and you can save them money from hav to pay to have windows disposed of. I have a family member in Illinois who puts the windows in his dumpster but anyone can take what they want from the dumpster
Janet Becker I have one of those businesses around the corner from my home ,I could so easily become a window hoarder,need to figure out my hoop house strategy for next spring.
Can you link the innoculant you used? I am setting up a garden at my parents place that have never been anything than grass so I'd like to prep it for some bean crops next year.
Aaah, that first frost is always so bittersweet. This year we were caught off guard entirely with ours and it was far more bitter than sweet. We are predicted to get ours by November 7th each year, but rarely get it before the 20th. This year it came mid-October. A month early. My fall garden was devastated. Very disheartening. Now looking forward to next year.
Ditto in Indiana my garden just DIED in a matter of 3 days. We went from 86 to 3 days later it being 47 or so then a few nites of hard frosts. All the green is gone!😣
I enjoyed this so much! Thank you! Your greenhouse and garden beds are beautiful. You have done an amazing job. There's nothing like your own fresh garden grown food for sure!
I love the new greenhouse revamp! The people I bought our privacy fence from had a window green house...it was amazing. I am a windows hoarder so..... Lol Maybe in my future! Being a new gardener I was so excited and didn't help my soil first so my green beans didn't grow good at all. The ones that did grow were nice snacks while I was in the garden. ;) I am fixing the fence around the garden now so the pigs (momma and 6 piglets) can till and dig up the ground. Then I found a free pineshaving horse poo mix so we will pick up a huge load and put on the garden area. LOVE the mangalista pigs!!! I know I mentioned this before but seeing the older male with the little females after the experience we went through I just have to warn ya....A male pig will breed a guilt that is as young as 3 months old! We were given 2, 6 month old pregnant guilt in with a yr old male. they were very pregnant and one died during labor the first week arriving on the farm. Not sure how old your guilts are BUT I wouldn't keep him in with them long AND they can breed through the panels! A determined boar smelling an in heat guilt/sow.....oh my....lol. That same boar within the first week got out of the pen and into our hog pen breading one of our sows!!! It was insane because he was pbp....he was determined and their piggie penis is VERY long! So he left the farm very quickly. We were very new to pigs Happy Homesteading ~Shaina~
Suck it up girl! (Jk of course). You got 3 more weeks than we did! Feel so good about that. I did not get a second harvest of cucumbers or green beans..actually I think I as probably only a week or two away darn it. It’s sad to see the seasons change but I’m really excited about my indoor hobbies to come!
This is the lifestyle I dream of. I just found you and love watching these videos from my upstairs apartment in Florida. 😂 I have a patio garden this year, and I get just as passionate about my little baby garden.
Tanya Healy I second that notion! I love lots of veggies, but green beans are just not my thing unless they're sautéed fresh or deep fried. I was only getting a few beans per harvest at the beginning of the season so I started just washing them and putting them in brine leftover from store bought pickles, then once they sat for a while I snacked on them and they were delightful!
Don’t cry because it ended, smile because it happened.
Yesterday was our last day before the freeze and my daughter, her boyfriend, and I were getting all the tender crops in and clearing the garden and I said to her, “ this is kinda sad.” My daughter had the best reply & it changed my heart.... she said, “ no Momma, it’s not. Just look at our buckets, they are full!”
Hi Jess, Maybe green beans for $5 at the store is cheap, but nutritional value straight out of your garden is "priceless"!! ;)
Not to mention other costs associated with buying at the store.. fuel, wear and tear to vehicle, time, packaging that ends up in the landfill.. increased nutrition of home grown, mental health of working in the garden, time with your family and kids as you labor together, etc etc etc..
Since you have so many animals it might be worthwhile to heat your greenhouse with hot compost. Use some pallets or old wood to create a box, load it up with manure and bedding, then add trays, and plant on top. As the compost cooks, the heat rises to the plants above. Then in the spring you have seedlings and compost for your garden beds. 😁
So sad to see the end of the season. You're lucky and industrious to have been able to extend yours with a greenhouse. I wonder if you were to call a window replacement service, if you wouldn't be able to get some windows people are taking out. It's common to see a dozen windows for trash pick up here. People put them out early hoping someone will take them. When you do build your window greenhouse, set aside a little time to wonder about all the things people stood at those windows and waited for, and all the babies parents watched grow up on the other side of the glass.
Yep...In Arkansas we say...if you dont like the weather...it may totally change seasons tomorrow.
Thank you. I enjoy you two discussing upcoming plans. Living alone , I miss the discussion s
It's the most sad time of year. I miss my garden too. I've already ordered a ton of seeds and the new catalogs arent out yet so I'm going crazy without gardening to keep me busy. It's like I have to relearn eveey year what normal people do everyday.
Finally someone who feels the way I do about the transition into Winter! I get all emotional and then feel silly for it. Thanks for giving those feelings some validity😄
I am scrambling to pick the last of my not so cold hardy vegetables. Trying to beat this cold front coming into Arkansas. Not ready for this cold to start but I know the earth needs to rest. So I will enjoy and be thankful for the last bit of fresh vegetables. God bless you
and your family.
Jess, next year you can cut the bean vines at the ground leaving the roots with their nodules in the ground for both the humus and the nitrogen thus improving your soil for the next crop.
I hope you got everything you wanted picked. Your plans for a huge glass greenhouse sound exciting! I think those curly haired pigs are gorgeous! I've never seen a breed like that before. I love the diversity in Nature. 💗💕
If you are going to spend the night outside in the garden I think I would be sleeping in the green house!
You are so inspirational. I had that harvest of seven green beans from one plant and I enjoyed every one of them. : )
Are back with a smile I hate the transformation from Summer to Winter but it's okay it's just a few short months you'll be right back at it I love your little family and all the encouragement you give blessings
A method for heating greenhouses in the winter is to use a wood burning stove. The iron heats up and releases heat over time, additional to the fire itself. This is one option.
A stone oven (made one out of bricks and lined with mud) could be another way to heat your greenhouse. The bricks will hold the heat and release it over the course of the day (or night). One fire lit in the evening would be enough to heat it through the night and into the morning of the next day at the very least.
Cold Frames are another option. You wouldn't have to heat the greenhouse at all, because the cold frames are effectively mini greenhouses within a greenhouse.
I feel your pain,,,,
But I’m 64 and ready for the seasonal rest.
We have snow coming into Michigan Friday morning, through the weekend,
On to our inside chores for the winter.
It's snowing here in Nebraska today, our first substantial snow fell on Oct. 14 this year (3 1/2"), so enjoy your last big harvest. And yes a 5 gallon bucket of food in November counts as a big harvest in my book. Canned green beans from the store never taste like home canned beans, so you are absolutely correct to get what you can, while you can, and you can't really put a true value on homegrown, as you well know. I do still have some cabbage, kale and celery hanging on, without any protection from the cold, but have been enjoying watching your fall garden....and those zinnias are still gorgeous!
Denise M - I’m in Nebraska too. I’m hoping my cabbage will keep going through this cold 🤞
Don't forget to save some for seeds. You're doing good. God bless!
Watching these videos from a year ago and I'm amazed at how much you have accomplished since then! Rose planter by the gate, high tunnel, etc. Great advice to take the whole plant out to harvest from inside
That first shot of Jeremiah in the garden...He's got that Ryan Gosling "hey, girl" look. 😎
OMG Sharyn you nailed it. I have noticed in comments how OFTEN people comment on how cute these two are, how much people notice how lovey-dovey they are. Sometimes I think that might be 50% of the draw of this channel - people just love how much love there is. Also, it's not just "Ryan Gosling", it's the "Girl" giving it right back. It's what people want to see, and there it is, just like that. Plus goats and zinnias.
BTW that just isn't like that on other homesteading channels, where people are clearly on the same team, on the same bat channel, all that. This one is like watching Samantha and Darryn (Darryl?) on Bewitched. OK, you guys are a TV show now...
♥♥♥ So glad we found out about you at the conference last month!!! Our mom is sad about the frost coming too, but excited to use winter to plan the spring garden! We started eating our moms canned green beans after she started adding a piece of shallot or sweet onion to the jar. A piece of onion (2 pieces in a quart) seems to mellow the flavor. Then when she heats them for supper she adds a tablespoon of leftover ham or bacon (cooked & diced)from the freezer to add flavor. ♥♥♥
It's finally getting cooler here at night, Panama City Florida, but I'm missing my garden. My garden was doing really well then Hurricane Michael came and destroyed it. I'm so sad about that. Planning and dreaming of a spring garden. It will be my 3rd garden. I appreciate all of your advice and knowledge!
Enjoyed todays lesson! Wonderful bounty. The greenhouse looks wonderful!
I did some hay bale gardening this summer. The green beans loved it!
Bless you're sweet heart. You did so great this summer! Don't dispar! We will have lots of fun with winter stuff and greenhouse goodies.
I am looking through some older videos as I only joined recently and I am chuckling over the window Greenhouse as now we are waiting in anticipation for the BIG reveal LOL
Very good video Jess appreciate your values.
I really like your greenhouse. Nice job on the roof.
I'm sad watching you wrap up for the winter. I have gotten so used to hanging out with you in the garden, it is like I am wrapping up the season, and I am in California. We have yet to see rain, much less the killing frost. I will let you get to cleaning the beans and canning.
Patrice's Projects Hi Patrice, Am here in California too...what did well in your garden this year? What were your favs? Brigitte
@@brigittelm6054 the garlic, onions, dragon tongue beans, some peppers (some not), and the tomatoes were pretty okay. I struggle with cool weather crops usually. I am in the central part of CA about 35 mile from Sacramento. My Fav's? Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and green beans, though I don't do well with beans because of spider mites. My nemesis.
Think of the money you save from having to go to the grocery store..... that adds up,too. Maybe this's taste will change as they get older, mine did.
I'm going to have cement pavers for the floor of my greenhouse. The stone will collect heat during the day, release it at night. Also, I was thinking of filling clear containers with water,inside the structure,to also collect heat and release at night...self heating greenhouse....
Miah wearing a beanie. Love yalls TH-cam videos. stay safe family.
It’s hard to shut the garden down for winter. All that work that got done seems to have been for nought, even when you’ve been eating from it all summer and putting food up for winter. I almost get depressed. We had a garden doing just great but were forced to move back in July and, while we still own the property with the garden, it’s eleven miles away. I’m in a wheelchair quite often and really need to start getting a new garden started for next spring, so I’m starting from scratch by loading our new kitchen garden with vegetable matter so it can decompose over the winter. Time to work hard and hope for the best next year. With just my wife and I, pints and half pints are about as big as I go. Blessings!
Those goats are a hoot !!! running to your wagon full of greens !!! I've never seen that !!! Irene here,,,I know it's sad cutting everything back, I feel the same... I still left my pineapple sage, which is HUGE , because its loaded with bees and I can't get near it , but its going to get real cold here too ( zone 7) Knoxville area and I cut almost all my plants back !!! So sad ! Thanks for sharing !
I so enjoy your videos Jess. God Bless you, Jeremiah and your family. :-)
Check out Eliot Coleman's book "The Winter Harvest Handbook". He's up in Maine and has mastered winter gardening. I prob wont get this right, but every time you add a layer of greenhouse plastic, you gain something like 2 zones to the south. He originally had cold frames inside of hoop houses. But he learned that using fabric/mesh draped over the plants worked just as well. I don't think he used much for heating, if at all. He's very focused on keeping costs low because he has to sell and make a profit - which as you can imagine isn't very high. I think he has a lot of great vids on youtube too. Good luck!
And his carrots are known for being the sweetest anyone's ever tasted - it has a lot to do with the cold earth they grow in.
Love the guitar music!
Caught myself doing the same thing today. Picking the last of the patio tomatoes and the ginger. Couldn't make myself go in knowing it's the last of the year. I don't have a greenhouse yet so now all I have are the tomatoes I transplanted indoors for next spring. My hubby doesn't like yard work and s grumpy even about mowing. I will ask about a greenhouse come spring. Enjoy your last taste of warm weather and think about spring and starting over. Love your new fuzzy pigs, they look made for the cold. Take care and pass around hugs, much love and peace. Blessings. ♡☆♡☆♡
Try bacon fried beans. Kids like them more. I tried raised beds, but the fire ants loved them too much. You can eat the greens off broccoli, kinda like collards. I canned the last of my tomatoes today, tender/turnip greens yesterday. I am ready for a break! Two months then back at it so take time to enjoy the small break. Have a good one!
It is crazy because in WV we have not had frost yet! We are only in the 50's!
try dilly beans, they're really yummy n healthy too, lol- i just found y'all the other day n been binge-watchin lol- i actually noticed y'all by your cattle panel vertical garden pic, awesome! ty 4 all y'all post n Father Bless
What is the deal with kids and green beans?! Haha! I grew up believing that all veggies grew in cans so eating anything fresh that I grew, no matter how small, has been so rewarding. I am so thankful for your channel and the knowledge you share so I can increase that yield!
I love home canned green beans. I live alone, so I'm canning for one. This summer I put up 17 pints of beans.
My dog, Toby, got very excited when your dogs, goats, and pigs came into the video, like kisses and licks to your herds. I hear you about putting value on what you grow. Even if it's just about freshness, I go for it. We got very few tomatoes this year in SF Bay Area, it just got cool and foggy in July and August, but they are still coming in, and I ripen them indoors. I got loads of pumpkins and spaghetti squash, so I am learning to make spaghetti squash fritters and pumpkin pasta and pumpkin curry. My mustard greens (3 varieties from Baker Creek), collards, cauliflowers, cabbages, peas, and onions are what I'm tending now. I have kale from earlier but I don't really like it much, I really should find more recipes for it. My lettuce is gorgeous, now. Planting favas, not sure if they're for me or for the soil, but now's the time. I sure do love beans.
Anxious to hear what you decide bout heating your greenhouse. I want to heat mine but cost has been just too much. Thanks for all the great information. Love and peace.
Yes of course, the freshness of your food and the experience of gardening are valuable enough to strive to always grow your own food! :)
Green beans are my favorite
Just harvested the last of my green beans too. Found several peppers too. Hard frost coming for us this weekend too. Moved all my citrus trees inside under lights. 😕
you can quickly blanch beans and then freeze them rather than can them
For heat in your greenhouse I recommend a couple of old hot water heater tanks, stripped of insulation on the outside and painted black. Filled with water, they soak up the heat and act as thermal mass to hold heat overnight. Or use steel 55 gallon drums. They’re just the right height to hold shelves for trays of seedlings or micro greens. I even once put a home built wood stove in a greenhouse, surrounded by the drums full of water. That worked out well. The water got hotter faster and held it long after the fire went out. But I’m in New Mexico and live at about 5000ft elevation. Hot summer and cold winter weather. Blessings! I saw you on Living Traditions and have subscribed. You have a sweet spirit about you! God bless you and yours!
I always leave my roots in the garden. If it dies, I just leave it in a pathway and me and the kids (I’m a home daycare worker, no kids of my own) stomp them down over time. I’m also the lucky being who lives in Zone 10 so my growing season is reversed - I start in October and end in May so I spend the summer inside, swimming, or planning. I just ordered a passion fruit vine and some grape vines and I’m looking forwards to some long term eating. - Jacob
Thoughts as I watch: I feel ya on soaking up all the garden vibes. I did the same a few weeks ago when I put my garden to bed. It about broke my heart to say goodbye....2018 was a stellar year for my humble little garden. Oh, and green beans....yes! I have a small garden space, only about 20 ft by 25 feet but we love our green beans in this house. I took a good chunk of my space and planted the heck out of the green beans. I did succession planting on the beans so that I would have beans all summer. We ate fresh green beans at least twice a week all season long, and I still was able to freeze some for Thanksgiving dinner. Your garden was beautiful, Jess. It was a place of beauty and peace, not only for you, but for all of us who came to visit your garden via TH-cam. Now, to rest and dream and plan for next year.
Ya'll are so adorable. I love watching your videos so much. My mamma had a green thumb and could grow anything and watching your videos bring back so many memories of her and my daddy. I've never seen a pig with long curly hair. What kind of pig is that? I look forward to every one of your videos. I subscribed and did the bell so I won't miss any.
Love ya'll and God bless you too
Wondering if you could can green beans with ham hocks and will it store well? We had our first frost last night. I just brought my container plants in yesterday before dark, thank the Lord. Good gravy, those pigs have curly hair! Lol. Love the greenhouse.
O gee here in Northern West Michigan we laugh about how green beans are like Neigheor makers just like Squash lol when they come into harvest you have to pick them Twice a day to keep up with Just maybe 5 plants. That’s were you Ding Dong Ditch Hey Neibor comes in lol
I absolutely LOVED this video. You and Miah are so sweet. I truly wish I had someone to build gardens with and that could build me a greenhouse. I too am sad to see winter come. Here in CT you really need a greenhouse to grow beyond October.
One of my favorite things to do is watching your videos while I am processing my small garden bounty. Last night I peeled and seeded almost a whole sink full of ripe tomatoes to begin the making of Marinara Sauce. (Couldn't do that while watching :) but tonight I harvested half of my marjoram and a good amount of my thyme. I sat down here at my computer with it and two paper plates and just enjoyed visiting with you as I stripped all the leaves off. This room smells amazing right now and my heart is happy.
Oh yes I’m doing the same! I still have peppers on the plants. Scrambling to get things ready before the temps drop tomorrow. BUT... it’s a great time to drop seed that need cold stratification! Lavender, poppies, etc. ❤️
I have been searching for the blue cook of my moms. It has our family green bean canning recipe. I grew up eating them and it is the only way my son will eat green beans. It has a touch of sugar and a splash of vinegar. When I buy canned beans I drain the liquid off and add a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of vinegar and heat them and they are similar in taste for a commercial bean. The best thing about the bean recipe is they are water bath canned because the beans are blanched and a hot brine is poured over them, so it changes the ph to high enough for the "pickling effect" but not enough that the beans taste pickled. Mom always poured off the picking juice and cooked them in water but I prefered to use the brine and just heat them up. They had more crispness to them. I will find the recipe and share because it cuts down on the time needed for big batches. This is an old, 100yo family recipe.
Sounds delicious! I’d love to try it!
We are preparing for the winter as well! All the critters will get fresh straw, water heaters, and the bees will be wrapped up this weekend!
kudos to you and your beans and garden harvest haul
may it fill you and your family with every ounce of
sunshine it took to grow and keep your souls filled
with joy. ☺
this my go to youtuber besides yourselves for any advice or inspiration
check him out.
th-cam.com/users/allotmentdiary
keep up the green work 👍
We got hit by frost a couple of weeks ago. It was coming and I scrambled to get all the sweet potatoes harvested. I miss the garden all big and beautiful, but I am tired and look forward to the rest.
Yep- it’s snowing in Lincoln Nebraska today. 😜. The break is nice, but I’d rather it was only a couple weeks.
so sad to see the end i know mine has been done for over a month and i have a couple inches of snow...My garden looks so sad...or maybe that's me projecting :( But it was a good year and like you i am already making plans for spring...I will be expanding the garden again I just can't help myself ...Have fun canning Jess i ended up with over 100 jars of green beans and enjoyed them fresh for months also they did really well this season God Bless Friends
Jess, OYR frugal and sustainable organic gardening has a great video about growing in an unheated greenhouse through winter. And I think he's in zone 5 if I remember correctly. I don't have a greenhouse, so I can't try any of his suggestions yet. I do have a plan to turn my pack porch into a green house for starting seeds this spring though! 😁
Good luck with the greenhouse! And God bless!
I got my frost on Fri, at 20. Got my garden picked out, and put away the hoops and stakes, and string ect, so that means its over. Kinda sad.
?Do you prefer Jess or Jessica? Sorry side tracked....next spring will you pull out the green bean roots or just keep turning them under. I did leave mine in but not sure what to do next spring. Thanks for all your help.
Hey jess! Just a thought, but maybe next season you can try going some grains in that flat section of your garden. No more buying chicken feed and maybe you can make your own flour :)
The video is so high quality! I'm a vlogger too actually but only in Asia country!
Oh no !, not the mommy monster. I love spinach(and green beans, too), though, I am also especially fond of zucchini ! Saute in avocado or olive oil with shrooms, onions, SPG and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
Adam Shaiken , stupid question, but what is SPG? Everything else sounds good!
@@indianne9781 An abbreviation for salt pepper and garlic. Always seek answers to questions ! Frankly, I agree with the sentiment that "there is no question that is a stupid question"...even if the answer may seem simple and therefore obvious, our minds can often complicate things unnecessarily, don't hesitate to ask if in doubt ! I am sorry for the long winded answer.
Adam Shaiken, thanks!
Adam Shaiken yummmm
Pleaaassseeeee grow in the green house through the winter
Make the kids dilly beans. They pickle wonderfully
you are so cute trying to talk your hubby in to a bigger window greenhouse .hahahahaha
Your mangalitsa pigs are so cute!
Hey Jess. I sent you a package from Baker Creek. I hope I sent you varieties that you haven't tried. If by chance I sent you something that you dont like please feel free to gift it to someone else that can benefit from it. Thank you to Jeremiah for the Phone call to help get my typo straightened out ( Mail Address I sent to Baker Creek). Emailed Baker Creek and they said my Gifts to you are on the way~ Stay Blessed!!! Just a FYI I did send you one that My grandfather always planted when he taught me how to garden. I got my green thumb from him. I hope you enjoy all of the seeds and Stay blessed
Thank you so so much for this! It blesses me more than I can say. My granddaddy was a green thumb as well!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Jess. I wish I could garden again. One day I will do it again other than flowers (only thing we can plant )!!! The one i sent that means the most to me is Cushaw Squash. Miss my Grandpa! Stay Blessed!! Oh and you may be able to wash things with a certain fruit from the seed I sent... Cough Cough Living Traditions Homestead (HINT HINT) . LOL!
We are just East of you in Southwest Tn. I have been plucking up plants and making huge bouquets from them I FEEL YOUR HURT!!!! Rhonda
Blanch, and freeze then use the green beans as you wish, in soup, or stir fry beans with roasted almonds. I LOVE them that way so much more than any other way. Maybe your boys would give the fried ones a try, the almonds really flavor it up nicely.
Your Mangalitsa pigs are so cool! Is there any special care needed for them vs a standard pig?
I have an Idea for you. maybe next year you could do a family taste test. tasting the difference tomatoes you grow to see which one they like best. same as beans and etc, just a thought. thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day.
Great vid. I hate to see summer go ,too. The greenhouse looks fabulous.
What do you do about birds/rabbits/deer, mice/rats and gophers eating your vegees?
I stomp my feet when the first frost comes but it does not stop it. The one blessing is no flies!! I miss my garden it has been over for a month already. Glad I get to see yours
Haywire Homestead I have found out just tough kale ,turnips , carrots , are this year kind of as an experiment,.
new subscriber.....really like your channel. I live in NW Arkansas. My ultimate dream is to one day build a year around green house with a room inside to live in. Your videos are inspiring and I am also learning much. Thank you for inviting us into your life and home. God bless!
That’s so cool!!!!
Plan for mold and temperature variances then problem solve BEFORE the problems hit while u contemplate ur design. Good luck!
Great advice, thank you Andria Blue
@@myfriendtruth9177 😉 np ya know i pass a lovely home w a covered walkway that extends from the house to a detached garage. A covered walkway thats open to airflow maybe even screened in for further bug free comfort could be what attaches ur wee living space/gardeners cave to the green house 🤔! Happy planning! Were dreaming up an outdoor kitchen/patio integrated design thats got an enclosed space that's bug and critter free for sanitary cooking purposes and a very neccessary wind block.
Andria Blue, now that's an interesting idea for my greenhouse. Thank you again. Hope your plans for your outdoor kitchen/patio work out.
You might contact someone who is a window replacement company and you can save them money from hav to pay to have windows disposed of. I have a family member in Illinois who puts the windows in his dumpster but anyone can take what they want from the dumpster
Janet Becker I have one of those businesses around the corner from my home ,I could so easily become a window hoarder,need to figure out my hoop house strategy for next spring.
Janet Becker And possibly a small green house.
Can you link the innoculant you used? I am setting up a garden at my parents place that have never been anything than grass so I'd like to prep it for some bean crops next year.
Aaah, that first frost is always so bittersweet. This year we were caught off guard entirely with ours and it was far more bitter than sweet. We are predicted to get ours by November 7th each year, but rarely get it before the 20th. This year it came mid-October. A month early. My fall garden was devastated. Very disheartening. Now looking forward to next year.
Ditto in Indiana my garden just DIED in a matter of 3 days. We went from 86 to 3 days later it being 47 or so then a few nites of hard frosts. All the green is gone!😣
It’s 7 this morning. I live in Ontario and we’re getting snow!
Oh, Jess. You always make me smile! Bless you!
I enjoyed this so much! Thank you! Your greenhouse and garden beds are beautiful. You have done an amazing job. There's nothing like your own fresh garden grown food for sure!
I love the new greenhouse revamp! The people I bought our privacy fence from had a window green house...it was amazing. I am a windows hoarder so..... Lol Maybe in my future! Being a new gardener I was so excited and didn't help my soil first so my green beans didn't grow good at all. The ones that did grow were nice snacks while I was in the garden. ;) I am fixing the fence around the garden now so the pigs (momma and 6 piglets) can till and dig up the ground. Then I found a free pineshaving horse poo mix so we will pick up a huge load and put on the garden area.
LOVE the mangalista pigs!!! I know I mentioned this before but seeing the older male with the little females after the experience we went through I just have to warn ya....A male pig will breed a guilt that is as young as 3 months old! We were given 2, 6 month old pregnant guilt in with a yr old male. they were very pregnant and one died during labor the first week arriving on the farm. Not sure how old your guilts are BUT I wouldn't keep him in with them long AND they can breed through the panels! A determined boar smelling an in heat guilt/sow.....oh my....lol. That same boar within the first week got out of the pen and into our hog pen breading one of our sows!!! It was insane because he was pbp....he was determined and their piggie penis is VERY long! So he left the farm very quickly. We were very new to pigs
Happy Homesteading ~Shaina~
the greenhouse looks great job well done, i bet you carnt wait to start growing salads and veggies in it.
I wish I could say I feel your pain, but....no frost in my neck of the woods! We have the beginning of our 2nd "Spring" which is Fall in Florida,
Hi, what are those purple beans please?
Suck it up girl! (Jk of course). You got 3 more weeks than we did! Feel so good about that. I did not get a second harvest of cucumbers or green beans..actually I think I as probably only a week or two away darn it. It’s sad to see the seasons change but I’m really excited about my indoor hobbies to come!
Sorry beautiful! But I’m am so looking forward to my turn of summer time here in Australia. Ill send the summer back to you in a few months time ❤️❤️🌱
Your pigs look like a combo of pig and sheep , if a pig can be called cute yours would be. blessings
This is the lifestyle I dream of. I just found you and love watching these videos from my upstairs apartment in Florida. 😂 I have a patio garden this year, and I get just as passionate about my little baby garden.
Hi! Quick question. Do you know why the beet leaves are turning red? Almost as if they're bleeding kind of red.
Ooo, can you document building the green house? I'd love to learn to be able to build one myself 😊❤️
Your greenhouse is fabulous! Well done. Jeremiah is so talented. Hugs to you both❤️
I really appreciate your wisdom and humility. Bless you, girl!
Pickled green beans are yummy 😋
Tanya Healy I second that notion! I love lots of veggies, but green beans are just not my thing unless they're sautéed fresh or deep fried. I was only getting a few beans per harvest at the beginning of the season so I started just washing them and putting them in brine leftover from store bought pickles, then once they sat for a while I snacked on them and they were delightful!
Alex Reith I have fried my pickled green bean and it takes it to a whole new level!
Tanya Healy that sounds amazing.