Hello from Ireland. 8pm here and I've just come in from my garden. I've been working out there all day and now ready to sit down and enjoy watching yours. Happy watching everybody ❤
An older gentleman told me a few weeks ago he grows enough squash for our entire county. So I asked him what he does for squash bugs? He said buys a 50 lb bag of oranges. And puts the orange peels in the ground when he plants the squash! I'm going to test this out I believe he knows what he's doing 😂
Rabbits! I encourage gardeners to get a rabbit. Collect the rabbit poop and immediately toss into garden or potted plants. It doesn’t need to be composted like all other manures and it comes in cute and non-stinky pellets. I pull my weeds and clippings and old plants and feed to the rabbits then the manure feeds the garden. It’s the best fertilizer and it’s free. I’ve been using it for 3 years now and my rabbits are happy.
Hello from the mountains of Panama! Here's a suggestion for your super abundance of holy basil (or any other prolific volunteers). Take chunks of those seedlings and pot them up to sell at your Farmer's Market on Thursdays. Your community will surely bless you 🙂!
After your tragic experience with compost in your high tunnel, I refuse to buy compost. Instead I have volunteered to cut the Boy Scout playing field for free as long as I can have the clippings. I know they don’t use anything on the field. Today I got 8 wagon loads of clippings. Now I add chips of wood and wood shavings that I know the origin of and top it off with my chicken coop cleanings. Toss regularly and voila I have compost for my garden in the spring. This year I had about 10 yards of beautiful compost that I had complete confidence in and my garden is beautiful. I am sorry your high tunnels suffered so badly but your experience was my wake-up call. I am also growing my own worm castings. It’s definitely the more labor intensive way to farm but as you can well attest, it’s heartbreaking to see all your hard work go down the drain because of something you didn’t even know was a threat.
Jess, the story about oak trees blesses me so much! I am continually inspired by how important legacy is to you. I feel kindred in that. When we own a home someday, we plan to plant fruit trees as a sign to our children of how important legacy is. That our children and their children may eat the literal fruits of our labor if they are good stewards to care for the trees.
@sabrinaa4872 nevermind. After clicking your name, I see your other comments on this channel are also a bit passive aggressive. I hope others can see that before you delete them. The community on this channel is the most positive and life-giving I have experienced on RU-vid. I hope you stay and can genuinely enjoy, instead of calling someone or something that is very wholesome, "weird."
Ma’am, I think God met with you in your garden while eating that cucumber. I felt the Holy Spirit. Yes, we get to eat food we grew in our yard! What a freedom and divine miracle He gave us in growing food. A literal gift from the Creator of that seed. Amen and amen.
My husband and I attended the 2024 Homestead Festival. We had hoped to meet you, but know this season has been very busy for y’all! We are on our way to Myrtle Beach to meet up with family, and decided to stop by and see Beulah Coffee Roasters. It looks amazing! Not gonna lie, we had hoped to run into you there! Thank you for inspiring us to garden and homestead. Batesburg truly is a gem, and I believe you and Miah will impact it in beautiful ways. Thank you for always shining God’s light! We bless you, until next time.
White icicle radishes planted with your squash will keep squash bugs away. I’ve been planting them with my squash here in Oklahoma like this for 20+ years and IT WORKS! I never have squash bugs! I let the squash come up 2-3 weeks before planting the radishes as the radish grow faster. I plant them intermingled with the squash. It works will all squash varieties!
I pull a few and eat. I leave at least 3-4 with each plant and let them go to seed. But I cut the seed heads off and keep them for next year. Once they go to seed, you shouldn’t eat them. They don’t taste very good, are tough, and from what I’ve been told, are toxic after going to seed. How true the last one is…I’m not certain; I just don’t take any chances 😂
I give my squash about 2 weeks growing time once they pop up out of the ground (I direct sow) and then I sprinkle radish seeds in around them. If I thin them out, and there is a little hole, I drop some down in it. I swear by this-I have only had squash bugs once and it’s when I couldn’t find the white icicle radishes! And they were so bad 😖
Thank you for sharing! My almost two year old son loves watching these with me! He kept trying to copy all the different plants you were mentioning, and it absolutely warmed my heart hearing him say, “Cucumber! Calendula! Plaaaaants!” in his little toddler dialect. 💕
Homestead Hart lost an entire crop due to Black Kow killing the entire field. I lost all my tomatoes (planted with eggs like you did) due to a new bag of Black Kow. I think you hit the nail on the head, they are selling compost that is not ready, affecting tons of gardeners. Thank you for posting!
Best part of the garden tour was watching Bear follow you everywhere you went. He loves you so much and it kind of breaks my heart to see he is getting up in age and seems to be slowing down. Such a sweetheart.
Omg Jess...I love the story about the tree seeds. I have been a gardener for 40 years and just started growing trees from seed. It is incredible to watch such a beautiful majestic creature such as a tree grow from a tiny seed. Thanks for that memory. May the blessings of God continue to touch your homestead.
It's so good to hear that there is a soil issue...I bought 2 new green stalks and filled them with organic omri certified potting soil and new strawberries. 2/3s of them died..grrr
I always just love that story about your families longtime owned homes and the oak trees. I remember the video where you generously took us back there with you and I am so happy that you’re planting those oak trees outside your home that Miah builds❣️❣️
Fennel is amazing roasted when sliced kind of thin. It makes a lovely accompaniment with white beans and olive oil on pasta. It's great raw shaved thin as a salad with olive oil, parmesan optional. However you serve it, save some of the soft new growth to use as a garnish. The seeds are delicious either dried or fresh.
As a Colorado gardener I’m here to say gardening here is unlike anywhere else. We get hot beautiful weather in Marchish only to then get snow in April and May often times. In August our tomatoes are just starting to really produce.
I hear you! I'm at 9,100ft here in CO. Officially, we don't have a last/first frost date for our zip code because cool air settles in our mountain valley and there is a chance all summer. I watch the forecast daily to know when I need to throw on frost cloth - which I also keep handy for sudden afternoon hail !! Multiple times last summer, I ran out to cover the garden while getting pelted with hail. 😅 I desperately want to move so that I can have top soil and a growing season more than 100 days!
I had 3plants last year in the springs on my patio, were doing so well then got wrecked from hail 😩 I think that's why I didn't plant any this year, Colorado weather is very whacky and frustrating
Sounds like Scotland! Our day temps are high 20s (celcius) but our lows overnight can still be frost. My tomatoes will still be green come harvest time (but still tastier than shop-bought!)
Oh... How lovely...and the Oak Tree story is so heart touching... You are a romantic soul and I can so feel it... I have a huge Oak tree in my front yard and I love it. Bless you and yours!
Girl I didn't even PLANT cucamelon seeds and they grew with something else I planted 3 years ago. I am STILL getting volunteers 😂and they aren't even in the same area that the original grouping was. Between those and all of the volunteer pineapple ground cherries we will have snackies for a while! Your asparagus jungle is just STUNNING!
I agree with the bagged soil issue. I have some where the top of the container looks like it was filled with paper mache. It’s like clay on top with wood chips. I finally bought a compost tumbler so I could take some control of my soil.
Kevin at Epic Gardening put out a video today doing an experiment testing 14 types of potting soil. Fascinating and proves it can absolutely just be the soil. I, of course, had purchased one of the lowest ranking ones on his experiment. I will be amending like crazy.
Jess, I love how you put squashes in all different places in the garden. I've been doing that with my peppers, tomatoes and melons to see where they grow the best. Because of you I've planted some sweet pea flower seeds. Can't wait for them to flower. Thank you for the lovely garden tour!❤
My Sweet Peas are about 4” and will last until the Fall if I keep picking them blooms , my grandma always had them and I got my love for them from her and plant them every year .
This was a pleasant place to be with you Jess, and all here today!! Thanks for sharing your Gorgeous Creations with us in this manner to mingle together!! Love ya, my friend 💞💐👩🌾🌿🌱🪴
Here in Fairhope, Alabama I put 70% shade cloth over my beds last year. The sun scorched the eggplants! Fortunately, I brought them inside and they were fine on my plate. 😀
I planted big kahuna bush beans this year....I was shocked by how much they produced and are still producing even though we're well over 100 here in Phoenix now...I just canned my 6th quart of beans today from about 25 plants
The story of the oak trees totally made my heart swell and tears come to my eyes, it was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing that. Just an fyi: for squash bugs we use Beneficial Nematodes. They're amazing! Loved the tour. Makes me jealous at how much rain you get. I'm on the western slope of Colorado where we avg 100 degrees every day from June through September, with less than 15% humidity and absolutely no rain unless it's a short week of "monsoon" season. You're absolutely right that the rain makes all the difference.
So cool that you are growing Kibbler okra! The tours of Dr. Kibbler’s gardens on Honeybee Hollow Garden’s channel absolutely make me swoon! He is a true treasure with such a wealth of knowledge about plants and gardening.
We just chop up the fennel bulbs along with some other veg roughly chopped (potatoes, carrots, onions etc), drizzle with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and roast them in the oven. Delicious.
Thanks! I have been wondering how to use too-I saved a sad little seedling from its death at a nursery and now it’s huge and I didn’t know how to use it!
Oh my gosh!!!….im not exaggerating when I tell you that I check my tube everyday, sometimes multiple times a day to see if you’ve uploaded anything new!! Thank you for all the education that you’re constantly feeding us! Thank you for your time, and for the love, and genuineness you convey in every single video! ❤❤
😊❤ thank you Jess you are so awesome and so many ways and I love seeing your beautiful garden and your beautiful face thanks for going live and enjoy your inspiration so much lots of love from Michigan 🥰 I have been watching you since 6 years ago and you have bloomed so much and touched my heart though gardening!!💚
when you said you went back and grabbed some acorns I started to cry. What a beautiful story and beautiful garden. I wanted to visit when I was on my way back from Albuquerque. Drove back stayed in GA visiting a friend. Went through S Carolina and kicked myself for not contacting you so I can see your garden. Maybe there was a reason. God bless you and your family.
I'm SO glad both trees are doing well, I recall the vid of your visit to your family home and how much it meant to you to carry those trees to your new home. It made me think of the pioneers bringing seed from home across the country/prairies.
I'm from S. Indiana. You have inspired me to grow Paul Robeson, Dr whyces, and big rainbow. I winter sowed them in milk jugs. I cannot wait to taste them.
I loved your oak tree story❤ And I'm growing Barry's Crazy Cherry's for the first time this year🤞 Along with your favorites from Wild Boar Farms....so excited 😁
Oh beautiful!!!!! Please send some of that weather my way northern Canada it’s 2° here! So cold I haven’t even planted my garden yet three weeks behind schedule🥺😳 it’s a sweet pea flower kind of year here so that’s pretty nice♥️
Another great tour Jess, and I must you are looking very healthy again, I Praise God for that! Your Cottage Garden looks great from any angle, so it doesn't matter, I'm still happily and lovingly jealous of it. I think I read that the rain is so great because it brings atmospheric nitrogen with it in the drops. Grow Blue Hubbard squash about 20 feet away from the ones you want. The pests like them better than the ones you want, so it's a trap crop. 100% agree with you on the soil issue in the Green Stalks. When I first started my raised beds, I filled them with a bagged organic raised bed mix that was still very course. By the second year, it was way more broken down and only needed a top dressing of an organic compost mix that was at least a year old in the bag.
Please keep us posted on the soil. I am in Lexington County also and have purchased 25 bags of Baccto. Everything looks amazing and lush. Rain does the ground good.
This year I couldn’t buy soil because we’re having money problems but I make my own compost and even though it wasn’t ready I put my same exact dwarf tomatoes as yours about a week or so after you planted yours and I mixed in old soil from my green stalk from last year and some happy frog grow big fertilizer and they are huge! They maybe 3ft tall they don’t look very dwarfy to me lol. All that bagged soil I bought last year sucked until this year I added my compost to it. Even my peppers I put in pots are huge! The tomatoes I got are tomarrilo dwarf.
Fennel is fabulous with sausage. I’ll chop it up and throw it in pasta sauce with sausage, onions, garlic and then finish it with pecorino Romano cheese and a splash of cream.
I have missed your garden tours! Yep... humidity in the south is something else. You've inspired me.... the next time it rains I'm doing a garden tour myself.😊
I'm in Upstate NY, zone 6, my chamomile bloomed this week! Started it from seed in a milk jug greenhouse on March 1st when there was snow ❄️ I love seeing where everyone is at, gets me excited for June! 🥰
Hi Jess, maybe you could talk to Morgan about growing trees when you visit him? I don't know if he actually grows oak trees, but he does grow trees of different kinds. Your cottage garden is completely stunning! I LOVE wild, it's my favorite look for gardens...thank you for taking us on your beautiful garden tour! It is so frustrating that having healthy soil has been a key element of your teaching about good gardening, and the soil companies are cranking out sub-standard soil, basically out of, surprise, greed! Their motto should be, 'When in doubt, go for the bucks!'. Sorry that happened, Jess. Yes, educate people about this! I feel like there is a certain amount of conspiracy around keeping gardening knowledge and gardening as a tool out of the hands of we, the people. Not to sound too paranoid. Bless you, Jess!🌻💕
Your Canna Lilies are looking great. Years ago at a different house where I used to live I had Red Canna Lilies grow up to the kitchen window which attracted hummingbirds. What a delight to be at my kitchen sink working on something and see hummingbirds!
Sweet Jess, Your garden is gorgeous. Like you, I love volunteer plants. Our humidity has been high, and so has our temperatures. Today, 101 degrees, with a heat index 110 degrees. We don't live in AZ, we live in central Oklahoma. Next weekend we'll be installing fence rail in cement in order to hang 40% sun shades to cover my beds. Stay cool, and keep the garden videos coming😊
Jess- so so agree, there is definitely a potting soil issue this early that is bigger than ever. Frustrating, but learning to deal with it with amendments. Thanks for you comments and willingness to research and teach us more about it….like you did with the bad dirt you got a couple years an ago. So appreciate it!
Hey Jess, I remember your visiting your ancestral home so happy to hear that your Oaks are still alive! Looking forward to seeing your cut flower greenhouse in full bloom! 🌺🌸💚💖🤗
🎉🎉 Garden Tour Season!!🎉🎉 It's my favorite! I had my first volunteer plant ever! I felt like I won the lottery!! It was a flower so no free food yet but still a win in my book. Love all of your content. You have brought me a deep love of real food and learning how to grow it and brought my mom along as well. We both thank you. Victory tastes So Good!! ❤❤❤
Jess i once grew sweet peas at a place we lived i just got them looking beautiful and blooming and the building maintenance came and pulled my beautiful flowers out and stuffed them all in a garbage can, i was in tears and shock for days.... Enjoy your beauties i love your gardens, thank you for the tour🙏💕🥰
Thank you so very much again Jess for a video that just makes me feel good and happy. For getting to see your garden tour. I know right now your struggling with your health a bit, yet you have such a glow about you today in this video. Just like true joy and peace. It’s contagious because I feel it too😃♥️🌻🌞🌈
