I took an old 'half' apron (cut off the chest part) Attached big buttons to the top at the hip area, and cut holes big enough to fit them at the two bottom corners. When I need to harvest tomatoes, beans or cucumbers, I just pull up the corners, button them and fill it up. When I go inside I set up a bowl on a stool thats the right height, unbutton and slide them into the bowl for washing.
Oh man. This popped up on my recommended videos. It has been a very emotional day due to some devastating news we received. As I was watching all of sudden Rachel pops off with “don’t need to buy no fancy basket” and the look on her face and the silly basket almost dragging the ground on her tiny frame just hit me and I started into a hysterical laughing fit, I rewatched that part 5 times. I know the video is old but thank you. For a few minutes I forgot the pain and just laughed. ❤
I talk to my plants all the time. The celery should say on the package whether it's self-blanching or not. If you bought starts, you could look up the type of celery online and research what it's properties are. As to how to do the tieing up, I don't know, as I've not grown celery before, except the year it got hit by a flood! I love James Prigioni too-very knowledgable guy. Thank you, Rachel🌻
Talking to myself, my dog, the chickens, the wild birds, a feral cat, the bees and remind the wasps that I am human- I am not tasty. Oh, most importantly I tell the plants how well they're doing and thank God for every blessing. Yes, I'm a garden girl!
I just learned that if you cut the head of a lettuce plant and leave some leaves, your cabbage will begin to regrow in a couple of weeks. It is thrilling to learn new things!
I have had almost no hornworms this year either and I really think it is the sunflowers! Not because they repel them, but because they draw in the birds. I have had so many little birds eating my sunflower seeds and darting in and out of my tomato plants. They aren't hurting my tomatoes but I believe they are eating the hornworms because I have seen the tell-tale poop, but no worms or damage! 💕
It’s been a very interesting grow season here in Most Southern Illinois. I bought a stack of dollar tree -wire baskets (small trash basket shape). I used then to protect seedlings earlier….now later in season.. I clip them to an old adjustable purse strap and wear for harvesting.
My sister grew celery last year and didn't bother tying the bunches to blanch them. And said she loved the flavor so much more than normal, store bought, and blanched, celery. So she's not blanching her celery or cauliflower. She cuts her celery off at the base when she wants to, leaves the roots, and they regrew in the spring. One of her four celery plants lived but her second year seed growing process is almost done now. I hope that helped. I've never grown celery for myself but I might try that in the springtime. You always have nice garden tours Rachel!
In WI, I cut mine off a few weeks ago like stated above. It is growing back now and will get a fall harvest from the same plants. I also don't blanch, the flavor is stronger but amazing! Enjoy!
Surprisingly we have not had tomato worms so fat. But even more Surprisingly is that I planted a patch of carrots right beside my tomatoes. Lol I love new information.
This is my second year growing celery. I grow Utah Tall which is self-blanching. It's really an easy, no worry crop. You can harvest and use individual stalks throughout the growing season, then just harvest the entire plant before the first frost. I'm still using frozen celery from last year's garden in soups and stews, and since you can continually harvest throughtout the season, I only grew 4 plants. It's a wonderful and easy crop to grow.
I just harvest my celery as it grows then chop and freeze it. I never cut the whole head off at once as it keeps growing. Homegrown celery def has a stronger flavor than store bought.
I grew Celery for first time and you are definitely right, nothing like the Celery we buy in grocery. It's a very very strong flavor. I was so surprised.
I watched this at the same time (sunrise) in my part of the planet, lying in bed feeling very poorly.🤧 It delighted my senses, made me feel I was there. What a joyful way to start the morning. Thank you, Rachel. 😊
I started my onions from seed this year. It was unbelievably easy and I can’t imagine why I never have before. You can get like 30 seedlings crammed in a 4” pot for 2,3 months, no problem.
Think about how all other vines behave 🤔indoor plants, veggies, ornamental and otherwise, give them soil and they will grow. As a physician I instinctively dug out a vine borer and buried the damaged squash vine in the dirt and voila! More squash. Happy harvesting! 😀
Some harvest green beans in the morning when. The plants are wet. I was always told not to touch the plants until they are dry because that will cause rust on the plant.
I just learned that if you top your onions.... you can make onion "pesto" with them adding what ever nuts you have or prefer ( hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts), garlic and olive oil? I haven't tried it myself yet... but watched Acre Homestead make this. What a great alternative to drying the tops.
I don’t have any cherry tomatoes, just chunked up a bunch of my other tomatoes, salt pepper, oil, garlic… and used spaghetti squash instead of pasta. Added some parmesan cheese:)
Please don’t pull the male flower off to pollinate use a small paint brush to pollinate your female flower that way the bees can still use it we do this all the time and is great.and your celery self blanching means the branches will have a good section on the branch that is white if not all tou do is mount some dirt around and it will blanch itself since no more light hitting the branch. You can also pick one at a time that is what I am doing right now to dehydrate. Happy gardening
Hello. Carrots and tomatoes give each other nutrients and are considered companion plants. I never have had luck planting carrots. The only time we have had them is when they are near tomatoes. I do alot of companion planting and put basil, thyme or oregano in between my tomato plants and it works to keep pest away. I haven't had pests in my tomatoes for at least 5 years. The herbs give nutrients to the tomato plants and vise versa. The herbs I grow are for my spaghetti sauce. 😋 I have only seen Japanese beetles on my pole beans. Everyone is having a hard time getting things to grow or having an odd year. We planted 60 onions and they are all small still. Not sure why. I just don't have any luck with onions or carrots here. 😕 Glad you have better luck than I do. Thanx again for a great video!
We typically get up to 70 mph winds in Cheyenne WY and I typically plant my corn deeper than most, about 3 or 4 inches, then when it comes up to about 2 weeks old, I hoe it and pull the dirt up around the root ball more and continue doing that every few weeks from then on. I also companion plant with pole beans and Tahitian squash or some sort of squash every season. I did the same when I lived in East Tennessee. I've not had any of my corn blown over. I had all my corn blow over one time before I started this process and I waited a few days and the corn stood back up on its own. If you think it is going to die, though, you might want to snag a bag of Early Sunglow Hybrid corn and you'll have corn before you get frost where you are. They're typically mature in 62 days.
It has been a very odd year for our vegetable garden. We didn't get any beans this year, due to the late freeze, a lot of rain, minimal sun and then we got temperatures in the mid 90's and on up...its been a crazy year. Our Roma's look funny, but still edible. Just a really strange year. Finished with the green tomato salsa, time to put up my feet...😊😊. Have a blessed day...
Go ahead and invest in the over the shoulder harvest bucket. I love mine. The padded strap on the back distributes the weight of the vegetables so well. I’ve also seen the Roo apron but don’t have one to give an opinion on those. I remember when those tomatoes were itty bitty. They look amazing now. Your garden is beautiful.
Me too! Then last year I only grew Blue Lake climbing French beans and saved seeds to plant up trellises. They germinated well but are growing as bush beans! 🤷♀️
I have my borage planted around my cucumbers and I think this is just a match made in heaven when it comes to bees , quite a few cucumbers this year ❤️
I'm in SE Michigan, and this is the second year growing onions from seed. I have Patterson, Blush, Redwing, and Talon already curing in the garage. If you multisow in a 72-cell tray, 2-3 seeds per cell leaves enough space to let them grow big for transplant. You can then thin them or not. Might be easier than pricking them out as tiny sprigs!
When do you start yours?! I’m in the UP, so we are a bit behind you guys for planting out, but just wondering how far ahead of planting out i should start them next spring!
Rather enjoyed sharing your head, lol. Garden looks gorgeous, Rachel. I always look forward to your videos. I’m growing far more onions next year to include a sacrifice patch simply to cut off tops at the height of their lush and greenest to make a year’s supply of Becky’s @acre homestead onion top pesto recipe. Soooooo delicious 😋
@Amanda R ... Becky is just something, isn't she? I'm so impressed with how much knowledge she has for this only being her 2 gardening year! She gives Rachael here at that 1870's homestead a lot of credit for her success. I like it when people give a shout out to the ones that help them. She also does what I see as secondary harvests like you mentioned about powdering certain things, etc. Her canning skills are coming right along too & if you asked her, she'd say this channel & Rachael helped her there too! Wish I had her energy even just 1 day a week! But Rachael... your garden is amazing & I love all your videos canning and gardening alike. Warms my heart when you & Todd work together. God bless all! Make it a great week.
This is the first year in a long time that our corn did not get blown down. You must have gotten our storm🤔. I usually do just what you did. We just ate a few ears last night. We are about two weeks ahead of your zone. It was good and worth the effort.
Hi Rachel. You have a lovely garden. The sunflower are big and beautiful. I also like the bees doing their job with the flowers. When are you going to show your flowers. I hope the whole bed is beautiful. God Bless you and the garden. Take care. Maria. 💁🖐️👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤😎😎😎
I live in the Willamette Valley Oregon and we are having an unusually hot summer. I'm losing stuff from the 115 degree weekend we had and now over 100 again. Very unusual for us. I love James also. LOL love the 'waste basket'.
I have to say that I so enjoy just watching and listening to you! I feel like if you lived nearby, we would be great friends! Your conversational style is so natural and friendly.
All of my pole beans and yard long beans are flowering and I just picked a few dinners worth of wax bush beans. My zucchini and yellow squash finally started growing fruits. But im very pleased with my Asian eggplants we've eaten 4 already and one plant has 7 fruits and is loaded with blooms.(Chinese String is the variety). The tomatoes are loaded but no signs of ripening yet. But I finally have cucumbers. I am growing them hydroponically and next year I'm not going to even plant in the ground and I'm going to just add more buckets to the greenhouse. I have celery in hydro buckets too. Its growing phenomenally compared to all my prior efforts in the ground. The pink celery has a stronger flavor but it is still yummy! I do need to learn to stagger my plantings as im going to have 10 heads of green celery at once and a few weeks later 10 of pink! Lol. I might have to do some freezing.
Oh on harvesting celery you can pull outer stalks and use as needed. Celery is edible no matter the size. My aunt made wraps of newspaper to blanch her celery while my late father in law said the commercial celery fields that were in rows just laid 12 inch boards up along both sides of the row so that just the tops peeked out. They tipped the boards onto the ground to harvest.
Hey Rach! Nothing to do with this video but I was hoping and wanting to know if you still plan on bringing us a pizza sauce this year!?! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank you honey! The garden is beautiful this year!
Dixon Dale farms is in Texas. We live north central Texas 60 miles N of Austin and we got hit with a 100 year winter storm. Biggest one in my 51 years. Lasted 6 days and we had 12" of snow and ice. That shut the state down, power and water as well. We did fine with back up water a home generator and lot's of canned food. The onions this year for next will be better. We love the channel and enjoy yawl! God Bless.
Just check out turkey featuring blankets are a cool idea if you live in the cold but also you can make a fancy writing pen and then you use oak galls to make the ink for your fount pen
I planted a lot of basil in my tomatoes and have had a great harvest. Fingers crossed that it keeps happening through the rest of the summer. I am a first year gardener.
Wow amazing. I just started watching you all and i just love your personality. Your are so bubble and happy. Im in michigan as well so maybe i can learn from you too. Ive been gardening for about 5 years and I'm still learning.
I live about an hour and a half north west of you but not that other big city. Last year we planted borage with our tomatoes and did not have one horn worm. In the past we have had plenty. The borage reseeded themselves this year, but not in with the tomatoes, so interested to see if we have horn worms this year. We will plant the borage with the tomatoes from now on.
I have only had one horn worm this year also. The parasitic wasps took care of my hornworms last year. In my bed with the tomatoes are basil, marigolds, zucchini, borage, phacelia, and nasturtium. Bug pressure has been lite in my garden again other than the little green bugs that suck on my bean plants as I try to use companion planting to confuse the bugs.
I got my onions the same place as you and because of their crazy weather followed by our crazy weather the onions freaked out and about half of them bolted. I also started some from seed, which is incredibly easy, and they did not bolt. But they were planted just a little later outside, at a much smaller size, and they only went through our crazy weather. The bottom line is I think I'm still learning to grow onions. Next year I'm going to try a little more fertilizer.
@@1870s I switched to working days at my job and it's been brutal out there ,the news man so chipper about the sun and I am so ready for cool days and nights .
You are awesome Rachel! Love your sweet Spirit and great ideas! This has been my go to with extra belts and baskets for a few yrs now! I found a bicycle basket that has worked well along with several others! You work smart with a passionate heart filled with sincere honesty! Love your garden!
Thank you for taking the time to film and edit this. I don't think you can know how much I appreciate it. Sounds weird, but I like hanging out with ya! 💕
My green beans are just like years. They have overtaken the whole bed I usually do the round ones which I did but I ran out of seeds and put some of the flat bean in there. Both were stringless which I love. Seems like it is taking mine a while to get big enough. Live and learn. God Bless!
Living by Detroit Metro I’m use to being serenaded by airplanes while gardening. Your belt and basket idea was innovative. I love frugal practical solutions to things people tend to overspend on.
This year I decided to grow everything under Agribon fabric. So my tomatoes grew under the fabric until they got big enough to reach the top of the covers. After that, I took the covers off and I then strung them to strings on the trellises. I think the time they had under the covers stopped when the moths usually leave their eggs. I've only found 1 small worm in all of my 50+ tomato plants.
I miss Michigan. Haven't been able to grow anything since I came to Texas. Gardening was my Forte. This year I've planted on the north side of the house, hopefully I'll be successful this time.
I tried Kentucky Wonder beans this year, and my family doesn’t like them as well. I was surprised how they all remembered which variety I usually plant - the Good Providers. Next year I’ll go back to everyone’s favorites.
Last year I lost most of my tomatoes due to horn worms.. I found my first and only horn worn this past Monday. I am closely watching for them this year!
That was so fun !!! Tells me I Need to go pick my Bush Beans in the am and my other Zucchini which is what they call a Volunteer- cause I didn’t plant any Zucchini!! Be Blessed ♥️♥️ Happy Harvesting, Patricia
Oh I laughed so hard when you were trying on your new ACCESSORY , your channel is so much fun !!!. The harvest at the end was amazing- I am going to try my onions somewhere else this year as mine aren't doing too good. Cheers Denise- Australia
Good idea with the basket...however, maybe next time don't wear a button shirt...I know you didn't have a problem but I was so afraid you were going to pop a button. lol! Glad you are getting onions. I had my best onion year this year. I put the onion sets/starts, whatever they are called in the ground, left more of it showing than I normally do. I also didn't cut anything off the green the whole time and my onions got really big.
I talk to myself in the garden as well - I know my neighbors think I'm bonkers :) I didn't get any beans this year because of rabbits. They were loaded with beans too and they ate every single one and just left little sticks poking out of the ground. I was distracted this week because my mom's been sick and just not being out there and having the dog out there, they just had a dang feast. I think I still have time to plant some though, erg...... this is the time of the year when it feels like things are on the verge of chaos in the garden :) When I think I might not be able to keep up with it. But we will prevail.
I never tie mine up but don't pull it till Sept just keep an eye on it if not enough water will get woody ...that being said we have had lots of rain just like you
Watching the video now 💚 as going back over some. It’s easy to assume you have so much energy as we only see that mostly but I know how much work all of this is… how do you manage the tiredness, do you get days when you’re just too darn tired and do you push through anyway?
I hilled my celery at an earlier stage than yours is so I wouldn't bother doing it where yours r at. I am in MN and I harvested all my celery a month ago. I personally look at the size of the plant and when mine looked like yours I harvested one to taste and I think the sooner the better so it doesn't get bitter. I bet yours is ready.
Also started my onions from seeds this year (patterson yellow onions. They were ready super early so pulled them out. I planted some more from sets hoping to get lucky with a warm fall here in 5b. Sad to hear the corn isn't getting better...
I bought onion starts from Dixon Dale and they were doing really awesome until we got non stop rain that last few weeks, I actually had to pull some because they died off, small little bulbs, I kept the rest in and fed them, but they seemed to be stunted. So, maybe I'll get a few small bulbs. We'll see.
I planted borage in front of my tomatoes and I only had 1 hornworm. So unusual for my garden. Maybe it is the unusual weather or the borage. I'll try it again next year and see if I get lucky again.
