My name is Jerra and I share my knowledge of gardening, food cultivation, backyard chicken-raising, and beekeeping to empower individuals towards a healthier and self-sufficient lifestyle.
I'm a professional heirloom seed and plant nursery that specializes in rare, unique, and heat tolerant cultivars: www.jerrasgarden.com
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For reference, I'm located in Orlando, Florida, zone 10A.
I incorporate several gardening techniques, which include: permaculture, organic gardening, cottage style gardens, food forest planning, urban gardening, urban homesteading, small space gardening, no till gardening, and gardening in subtropical areas.
Dont feel bad. I have been trying to grow it for years. It starts off ok, then starts dying small. If it does make it long enough to make an ear, its tiny and the plant dies. Jerra will show us how its done. She's my newfound Florida gardening hero!
Wow! So my issue is my vines have grown outside the grow bags and now have rooted in some places into the clay brown soil/ground 😩 do I leave it be or clip them? I was afraid I would damage them. What fertilizer you use and how often?
Do you think I’ll have to keep it indoors if I live in CT? (We have so called 4 seasons, we are in summer now) I’m learning and want to make sure I do it correctly 😅
@jerrasgarden do you think that the Barbados cherry would grow in the Mojave desert? Thank you. I've had a very difficult time growing things in the high desert. 🙏
I am building my arbor this week, I am just using steel cables along the top so hopefully that will make it easier to harvest instead of using the wooden trellis you are using.
Please keep the list on the screen a luttle longer. Thank you. Also, we would still lusten if you aren't talking so fast. You rush from one thing to the next in one breath. Everyone seems to be doing it but it is not necessary. We will still listen. When someone is getting new info, this speed talking is just not good. Thank you. I am not trying to offend you.
I'm in Southern California, but in the same zone 10a as you. I love your channel and even bought seeds from your online store. Thank you for all the inspiration.
I’m starting some like this for a fall crop! Worked great last year in zone 9a only this year I’m growing field corn (75-80 days to maturity) and glass gem (110-120 days to maturity). My first avg frost date is usually between Nov 30th and sometimes mid December. So excited! I’m planting pole beans around them in a few weeks and transplanting winter squash after that, 3 sisters style. Wish me luck! I love fall gardening here in zone 9a Texas. 😁
I planted a couple of Seminole pumpkin seeds last year and now my back yard is full of those vines. I'm not complaining about the vines but so many of the pumpkins fall off the vines before they can get a chance to grow. If they make it past a certain size, bigger than a baseball then they will stay on, but most of them fall off while they are very small. The vines are super healthy though. I don't understand what the problem is.
Thanks for sharing your growing experience. I have seeds, but did not receive them in time for a Spring grow. The main commercial goals of GMO development are to REDUCE the need for pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, and artificial irrigation. Parts of these goals have been demonstrated as achievable by multiple researchers with multiple crops. Very exciting and useful things are coming once the bureaucratic blockade crumbles and the science advances. It is my understanding that the true agenda of The Purple Tomato is break down the fearmongering walls of consumers. It has never been intended to be a profit-maker or more robust than normal tomato cultivars. It is simply a novelty. There are many interviews on yt with Nathan Pumplin (CEO of Norfolk Healthy Produce). Essentially all American livestock are fed a diet of GMO corn. We eat them. Our gas tanks are filled with 10% ethanol from GMO corn. We drive them. 50+% of white sugar is derived from GMO sugar beets. We still love it.
I live in texas and they are native here and at this point they seem invasive😂 they are vines along every fenceline and everywhere in the woods they are growing up trees with vines over a inch thick but not all are fruiting idk why