The Jessie Hour❤ highlight of the week : sweaty or not, eyes lined or not, mud-food-wrestling chickens, pervy trombochino shaped disturbances, parakeeted apples... that's entertainment kid😂❤
Hi Jessie. I am breathing in your weekly vlogs and can not wait for the next! 🤩 I just love your natural approach to gardening, showing us your failures and triumphs, your `silly` laughs(always makes me smile), love the girlies, Lilly, your mum, your gorgeous black kitty, but most of all, seeing the fruits of your (and mum`s) labor. Spring is fast approaching here in South Africa and i have most of my seed in seed trays already. Beds are prepared and just waiting to receive the seedlings. The reason i love your video`s so much, is that you put so much love into what you are doing, you show how and with what you prepare your soil and the feeding of your plants, etc,just love it! Please, make your video`s longer, or post 2 every week . . pleeeeeez 🤗 take care 🌻🐞
Jessie, the parched empty potato bed is a great opportunity to chuck in a bag of manure and grow a cover crop. Food for the soil. It's already been forked over so why not sow a load of old out of date seeds, let them grow on a bit then turn them in slightly or hoe them down. Then sow a load of field beans to over winter, then chop them down in early spring leaving the roots in the ground and the green material to rot down on the soil. Cover crops are great if you can bare to terminate them at the right time.
Love your videos you do it really well, music is lovely, breath of fresh air in these troubling times. Lots of Greek recipes have beans sautéed Green beans mixed with egg is a favourite in our house.
Picked our first beans this evening! Cosse Violette. So chuffed to have any as slugs just destroyed all that we put out, despite multiple sowings! And I thought that the cobra plants were done for but found 2 beans on a feeble looking hidden plant. Yay! 😂 I look forward to Tuesdays and feel sad when the video is over, knowing I have to wait for another week, so the longer the better for me. Sending lots of love Oh I would love to see that recipe for the slow cooked beans 🤤 x
Cheers 🍻. I agree with you about Cobra beans, fantastic. Mine suffered initially with slugs but they don’t give up and are now prolific. I also have Blauhilde purple beans that are very strong plants but not quite as nice to eat. We are also eating everything with beans at present!
Slugs and snails seem to have an aversion to plant leaves that are purple / red, all my lettuce that are speckled or reddish leaves don't get munched as soon as they are planted out. Take care Xx
Hi, enjoy your videos no matter how long, I grow the yellow Kentucky wonder pole beans with the right conditions they do good, but I also grow in containers so teepee is too short they do better against a wall with netting, you and your mom take care, till next week 👍
Never heard of garlic kale hmmm I must look into that 😋 I love beans and so good for you. My favorites are dragon tongue and almost all Bush beans 🫘 😋 another great vlog ❤ 🍻 😊
I love my garlic chives but they are so prolific now that they are almost invasive. I use some of the flowers with basil and make a pesto that is quite delicious. Here's a thought : green bean and pesto salad. You could use ramen and cook the beans with the pesto. Garlic chives spread like crazy from the seeds as well as the little bulbs that form. Thanks for another fun video!
Jessie this is an amazing video!! I wrote the names of the green beans to plant them next year!! I’m learning so much from you!! Love ❤️ & blessings 🙌🏻🦋🇺🇸
If im feeling like i cant botheted. I always get inspired by your vlogs. Its still so cold here though spring is next month..eep!! The garden centre where i work is slowly coming to life in readiness. Expecting tommie seedlings any day!
Hi Jessie, the slugs ate halfway up my beans, ruddy things! So I’m only getting little bean harvests atm but courgettes, beets and tomatoes have started 🎉
Though I’d love rain if the humidity doesn’t burn off it is miserable. We’ve finally got hot weather with lower humidity. Hot not as humid. Use a fan it helps!❤😅
Hi Jessie, I have grown cobra beans this year thanks to your recommendation, and I agree they are great, and so tasty, miles better than any shop-bought bean so thank you for that. I might also try violette next year too - they also look good. I never realised how much I love beans until I started growing my own, it's so cool. Another first for this year was growing tromboncino and they are so fun to grow too. Thank you for another great video - glad to see your tomatoes looking so healthy - I love tomatoes. 😊
Courgettes, french beans and tender stem broccoli all prolific, just had the first few black moon tomatoes, which were delicious 😋, my garnet are just turning. Jo Devon 🙂
Another great vid Jessie. I'm enjoying heaps of yellow wax beans (a dwarf variety), and my berlotti beans are becoming impossible to support. I've just added an upside down broom as an additional support! Broad beans totally failed :-( . Usually I use a dehydrator with the berlotti beans but this year I may leave some to dry on the plant and save some 'leccy. Have you ever done that? Did it work? For the first time I'm growing melons in my cheap POS plastic greenhouse, and they look awesome so i want to pick one, but I'd hate to go early and waste it. Thanks for mentioning apple seeds killing hens - I've had to dash into our chicken run and pick up the apples I tossed in there yesterday.
Hi Jessie, I was inundated with cobra beans last year, but this year they're only just flowering. We're waiting patiently. My runner beans are doing better but not ready to harvest. Courgettes are grim too. The weather has been pretty poor up here in southern Scotland, only the odd day of sunshine, not like the weather in the south of the UK. It's the only thing I miss about London, but I never liked the humidity. In fact it's getting quite autumnal in my garden. My tomatoes have only just got flowers on them. I can't see them ripening. Ah well.....maybe next year will be better! Your plot looks amazing as always.
Your tomatoes are catching up brilliantly! We have been harvesting our boring standard varieties like Rosella, Honeycomb, cherry grape Marzano (the latter being our own saved seed) and plain but prolific beefsteak Burlesque for over three weeks now. We harvest when they’re turning to encourage more fruits but the third trusses upwards just haven’t set and we’re running out of height space. Yours already have more fruit on than what we have left to ripen. Similar varieties in the back patio garden are setting far more fruit than in the greenhouse. Just a little further behind. We really must get our act together to buy say, Black Moon etc but we never can get seed when we remember!! Yes, our French beans are prolific this year. Overwhelm! Runners doing well too. Been harvesting those for two weeks now; they’re lovely and straight/long this year, not because they’re from our own saved runner bean seeds, but because, we’re sure, the weather has been conducive. Butternut squash are only just beginning to sprawl but I’m putting that down to both cold night temperature dips and VERY poor ground…. They were last minute. We don’t get fox/badger damage but we do get moles. They’ve lifted our entire autumn carrot harvest out the ground so I know how frustrating fauna can be for you! We vacuum seal and freeze blanched French beans with a knob of butter and boil them in the bag as a quick side. Already have enough to last a year they’ve been that prolific so leaving the rest for dry white “navy” beans. If the Roma (home developed seed) paste tomatoes don’t get blight, we’re planning on making our own canned baked beans this year using Becky of Seasonal Homestead’s ketchup recipe - diluted. We pop French beans into salads, can a few and can dilly beans, not much, just enough. Not grown other French beans for a couple of years because we’ve been trying to develop our own climbing green bean (white seed) seed bank. They’re getting expensive to buy what with shrink and stretch inflation!! 😬 We too had a great raspberry and blackcurrant harvest but not a good redcurrant. Wild blackberries are gorgeous this year. We don’t like them whole in pies, etc but do make a jelly to give game or cheese - which should make up for the one jar of redcurrant jelly. Not all is going well though! Our annual flowers are a disaster. We didn’t even get a good return of the usually reliable self seeding ones this year. Dill and coriander self seeding however was the best we’ve ever had! It’s been a trying year on so many fronts this year but we’re grateful…. So grateful…. for the few successes.
I only have left hands gloves! Lets get them together 😂. I got the felco 322 snips , is that more what you are looking for? Lovely to see you again , lots of love from Belgium ❤
Hello Jessie, have you ever tried sewing snips? I use them all the time. I have garden envy❤.....you and you Mum have a beautiful plot! Thank you for sharing.
It appears that I am growing peanuts this year, planted by specially trained squirrils, I think they have decided there are not enough coming their way so are growing their own.Also new bit of kit for the veg plot, I bought a rotary compost seive yesterday and it arrived this morning, brilliant bit of kit just the job for sorting the rubbish out of peat free compost. Took just a few minutes to do enough for three tubs for a new sowing of carrots, these stay in the greenhouse, so up to 7 so far more to do. Don't get sun burnt.
Get some mesh bags and put on the apples. Choose a color that isn't close to ripe color to fool the nasty peckers. You can find in bridal section. Works like a charm
Well I must be doing something right if you're doing it too! I grow Cobra french beans too, they're fantastic and v prolific like you said. I've had several kilos of beans off my plants already this year, but unlike you I am preserving them as well as eating fresh, and have done for years now. I find if they're chopped and blanched for 3 mins before freezing they turn out great when steamed for 5 mins on the hob straight from frozen, and we eat them all though winter. Each to their own likings though, and nothing wrong with just eating them fresh although I do think I'd get sick of them every day! They save seed great, too, I've found excellent germination and plants from saved seed 🌱
BEEEEEAAAANS!!! haha my gosh they come in fast dont they i have 4 no 6 varietys on the go now as two more went out buit wow i just love a bowl of beans on the side of anything or just alone is that wierd? haha super food they
Hey Jessie, Lotsa great information this week. I was thinking about your question about clippers or shears. I only buy the Felco products. I like the Felco Pruning Shears (F 310) - High Performance One-Hand Garden Pruners - F-310 it is rounded. I use these a lot......... FELCO F320 320 Snip, Harvesting Shear, Steel Handles, Curved Nickeled Blade, Re shorter in the tip length but it is rounded and I like these a lot also..... I do not like the pointed ones like Felco 321 and 322 they are pointed. They poke holes in ALL your pockets. Not sure how I know that..... This year I took three beans the green, yellow and purple colors of US, Italian and French varieties which is 9 different beans. I can not figure it out something is eating the French beans all the way down to the soil but not the Italian or US varieties???? I can let you know how they get on as the summer goes. I just started these two weeks ago. I do love to see your mom moving about and so involved in the garden right into the potato bed as you were digging. I did find myself smiling over that one. I do hope you are finding time to enjoy the garden and feel some pride in all the work the two of you are doing. Take care Cya next thyme, Steven
Black Moon and Black Strawberry tomatoes have been surprisingly good and healthy for me, which I wasn’t expecting. Thought they’d be all looks and disappointing taste. I’ve had quite a challenging tomato season and these two tomatoes have been my best performer’s so far. Will definitely do them again next year! Top 2 for me so far… Alice’s Dream and Rebel Starfighter…. Sart Roloise still to ripen🤞🏻 Looking forward to your eventual taste test this season, particularly when you solve the Alice’s Dream and Sart Roloise case😂
Hi Jessie, your raspberries are fruiting now. Does that mean that they are autumn fruiting variety (as in late summer)? Mine are fruiting too, but I am sure mine also fruited early in the summer, so I am not sure.
Love your inspiring work ethic! You always make me feel I can get out and do a job or two 😃 Check out florist scissors for snips. And you maybe need some Creen Mate to keep your snips clean as I find they get sticky quickly.
If I were extravagant, I would buy a pressure canner. For squash, potatoes, pumpkin, and of course, green beans. I always put cooked meat in the bottom of the jar, and presto - soup starter. Which I later always thicken with roux and add noodles or rice, it’s just a fabulous thing for big harvests. Meat + potato + carrot + peas + onion, that’s just ONE EXAMPLE. Chicken + green beans, another. Beef + tomato, another. Ham + carrot + onion + navy bean, another. Your independence will blast off this way! A batch of 7 quarts takes about 2 gallons of material which is a lot more than it sounds! But spread across many veg, it’s just plain thrilling when the veg are “free”. Satisfies both the creative AND the practical soul.
My Sunshine french beans are definitely not prolific. Mine have really struggled to climb the canes. But having said that my Cobra aren't anywhere near as good as they were last year either. This time last year I was getting way more Cobra than I can eat but this year I've only been getting handfuls. I'm hoping the recent heatwave will get my plants to bush out more. Yours look amazing covering the arches. I like the long videos. 45 mins to an hour is perfect from my point of view. I think I'd get Plot 37 withdrawal symptoms if they were only half an hour 😂.
Hi I noticed that as a roof vent on your greenhouse you have let the top pane drop and held in place with a length of wood do you close in winter or leave it open all year round I have an old second hand greenhouse with no vent in the roof to open so I was going to try this next year So does it work and thanks for great videos cheers Dave
jess question ? im holding off plabting out the winter brassicas till end september earlier oct , as spring ones the cabbge catterpilare got and i just rip out at any sign to avooid bed spread , when are you planting out you main cabbage n caulis brocali kales etc ? , im waiting for the fleeces to come out again hehehe , and squashes and pumkins i bloody love autumn
💚💚💚I collect bean seeds and at the moment there are about 500 of them)) I love beans very much. I could give you the seeds of the best beans, but I live very far from you.💚💚💚
Well jealous of your french beans. My favourite veg. I often buy from the supermarket too but this year I've been holding off and giving myself something to look forward too. I'm doing Cobra and Sunshine too. I specifically wanted to grow Sunshine because I thought the mix of yellow and green would look great on the table. But like you I'm finding they produce small amounts compared to Cobra. I thought they wouldn't be as prolific but I was hoping for at least a quarter ratio to Cobra but it's similar to how you describe which is a tad disappointing. Having said that I'm not getting anything like you are with the Cobra either. Last year I was getting bags and bags like you this year but this year for me it's just a handful each time. I've grown more plants as well than last year. Your plants have bushed out nicely and have nice big leaves but mine just haven't done that. No idea why. Bit sad about it really. 😢😂. Seriously hoping the plants pick up now they are reaching the top of the frame.
I make dilly beans with my large straight cobra. Water bathing them for long-term storage. The perfect answer for preserving your beans as I agree that frozen doesn't work for me either. Nothing finer than crunchy beans in a salad in the middle of winter 😋.
@@irenejohnson5291How long? I assume you mean how long do I water bath them? 10mins. Use a recipe off youtube, lots of Homesteads can Dilly Beans, they will guide you.
I'm not a great fan of french type beans I much prefer ordinary runners, what does the international man of mystery ( dad) think of tombrochinoes I seem to remember you saying that he wasn't too keen on courgette 😊
