I admire everyone’s work ethic and how everybody pitches in🥰.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

@EastSider48215

2 жыл бұрын

It’s really remarkable, isn’t it? I am envious.

Everything revolved around the garden where my parents were from in the eastern Kentucky mountains. My family always referred to a patch, as growing a specific item - potato patch, strawberry patch, tomato patch etc. I think the only exceptions were the corn field and the sugar cane run. Yes, I always heard "new ground" when they extended the garden or crops area. Everyone held seeds as life blood. Very, very important to hold back the best seed for the next year. I recall my grandparents (both sets) saying they ordered sweet potato "slips" from South America. This would have been early 1920's through 1965. Then in the later years until their deaths, plenty of catalog seeds. Seeds were not as scarce, or "sceerce." - they had more money to buy seeds.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. I bet their garden was just amazing 😀

Thanks for a video that brought back so many memories of my childhood. The first thing I remember growing was turnips and I remember running as fast as my six year old feet could carry me to tell my grandmother that the turnips had sprouted. I thank the Good Lord every single day that we did not have video games or computers. I am also thankful that we have folks like you to keep those memories and culture alive and vibrant. God bless!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

What great memories 😀

What a wonderful tour of your spring preparations in your garden. Looks like you’ve all been blessed with good physical strength. It’s awesome to see families working together. Thanks Tipper. Y’all are a blessing to me!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rhonda! We appreciate you 😀

"Make do with what we've got." I always think of that as our Appalachian motto. And we are good at it! Have a great week!

I just can't wait to see what grows in your garden this year Tipper. I hope you get an abundance of everything!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robin 😀

I sit here tonight with tears in my eyes over looking the world. Watching your family brings solidarity, peace and warmth, Ty..

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Paul-thank you so much for the kind words 😀

I absolutely love being in my garden. I call it playing in the yard. I understand completely. Thank you for sharing.

Nice to see a family working together.

I planted 2 bunches of Texas 1015 onions and a row of collards Thursday. Here's wishing for a warmer, drier spring than the last couple of years

Tipper, I have seen all of your garden spaces and I have watched them grow bigger. I have also seen all your planting containers that allow you even more growing space. I think you all are absolutely amazing! You grow an amazing amount of food in a limited space, and you still have enough to share with me...and I really appreciate it! Thanks for the tour!

I can feel your excitement over a new year of gardening. :)

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I just love it Ron 😀

“Making do” is the best! It requires imagination and inventiveness.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀 Thank you Diane!!

Well I sure do like the promise that fills the mind with thought; the lungs with cool air; the rise in the spirit when shovelin' dirt to conditionin' the' garden... Thanks for sharing.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly how it feels-a promise of good things to come from putting in some hard work 😀 Thank you Phillip!!

This is truly a family affair! I remember daddy & mama planting a huge garden. My sister & I were reminiscing about having all the goodies from the garden & different food mama would fix. Now we're both older & disabled, not able to do gardening. I miss just going to the garden, grabbing a ripe tomato and eating it with a little salt just like an apple! May your garden patches be blessed this year, Tipper! Blessings from VA! 🙏

Your gardens are just beautiful. I surely know what you meant when you were talking about spending a productive warm Spring day in the garden. That is such a blessing.

Our lifestyle is full of hard work but it's the only life for me...i always enjoy these videos

Tipper you and the Deer Hunter have a lot of good garden patches! They are well spaced and organized too. Woohoo, it’s garden time!

Your family are hard workers. Love ❤ seeing you all work together. ❤ what blessing to have help.God bless

My distant relatives immigrated to Texas from TN Appalachia. I became a gardener at the age of 10 for a unique reason. We were very poor and both of my parents worked 7 days a week, long hours and had no energy for plating and cultivating a garden. We typically ate frugal, no-meat meals; but on Sunday my mom, sister, brother and I walked 2 miles to my grandmother's house and ate lunch. She raised chickens and had a large garden. We ate such good food and I realized that this was possible because she raised her own chickens and garden. At 10 I planted a garden and got my first setting hen. After that our typical meal improved dramatically. Now I am old and live in VA and I grow a suburban garden using many techniques including edible landscaping, raised gardens, and container gardens.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

How wonderful! Thank you for sharing 😀

My Puppy Hans and me Hope Y'all are Good,and Happy and Healthy. God Bless Your Family and lots of Love to Y'all. ♥️

I really hope you will keep showing some more of your garden as everything grows in.

Life in a mobile home park presents challenges thats for sure. Little to no yard makes growing flower or vegetable a challenge. When our county decided, who knows why, to switch from sturdy laundry tub size containers to upright cans for our recycling items a thought hit me. Those tubs were just too good to cast aside. I canvassed neighbors and offered to take unwanted tubs and OLE my container garden was real. My covered patio provides protection during summer storms. Harvesting couldnt be easier. The tubs sit bare of food staples, stacked on my patio, waiting for the all clear for planting. My birthday and Memorial Day weekend are the target dates. This year plum tomatoes and possibly some half runner beans. Gardening makes me hungry! Ill need to start a "cornbread" patch near the beans. 😏 Thanks for the video Tipper. 🌹

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

How wonderful! Glad you thought of that 😀

Grow you some potatoes in buckets. Drill some holes in the buckets for drainage.About two shovels of that mulch in the bucket. Place about three seed taters in a small circle on top of the mulch inside the bucket and fill the bucket to the top with the mulch.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! We planted some in the grow bags last year and they did pretty good 😀

How wonderful your telling of your patches and family history. I am catching up after a long time of inconvenient illness. Tipper, your talks so inspire me and get me back outdoors! Take care and enjoy your garden!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you're feeling better now!!

I am from Waynesville NC and have been away from home out here in NorCal for about 5 year now. Sometimes when I'm homesick I catch a few of these videos. Then I am really homesick. Jk it really gives me peice of mind in times of turmoil. Glad you guys do this. God bless us all 🙏

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad we take you home 😀

i love your family working together

Enjoyed watching Miss Tipper, and love the excitement I hear in your voice as it’s plantin time again. Can’t wait to watch everything grow in y’all’s gardens and pray y’all reap a great harvest! GOD BLESS YALL 😇🙌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻☀️❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I pray the same for you and Robbie Lynn 😀

You have a wonderful garden. Lots of delicious things. Mmm! Lots of asparagus! Thanks for sharing. 🥕🌸🍓🌺🍅🌻

We had our garden worked with a field cultivator Saturday. So we planned lettuce and radishes. Now snow is predicted tomorrow. But I know it won’t hurt it.

Such rich looking soil. It will surely grow some awesome veggies!

So excited for you to be able to start getting your garden areas ready. I really enjoy watching you and Matt . I love gardening.miss it.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

It's looking great Tipper! We have a big garden. We've been working on it too. If the weather holds we will be back at it this weekend. My husband Roy will be off work. My parents got us kids gardening early. Both of them had green thumbs, mama especially. People sometimes asked her why she worked so hard gardening. She loved it. She could afford to buy all our fruits & veggies. Of course the store bought produce aren't anywhere near as good. There's so much satisfaction in growing things. Canning too. Asparagus grows wild along the railroad tracks down here. My daughter Courtney ❤asparagus, she'll eat way too much & she gets a rash. We have fruit & pecan trees. We have black walnuts on the farm in further East Texas. I have some shelled, made banana nut bread with some yesterday. Really watching y'all working together ❤ . It's looking so good.

That true about pathes , I seem them all my life!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

Looking great hope many people have gardens this year.

We just upgraded our 2 raised beds to 4 and will add the last one in a few weeks. Added trellises to give us more room for more veggies. Never heard it called patch gardening before but it sure does make a whole lot of sense.

When I was a little girl my Papaw would plant around 200 cabbage plants, I helped and did not like it. I had to carry water to water the plants in when planting. I told my Papaw I would never plant a garden. It’s funny how we change,when we grow up, now I love it. My Papaw got to see how much I loved it before he passed. I told him he taught me everything I know about gardening. He smile was so happy to hear that, and he said looks like you are growing a pretty good patch.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀 Love that

That right there is some mighty fine looking dirt.

This has got my adrenaline pumping, I’m ready for all the fresh veggies, especially some vine ripe heirloom tomatoes and fresh snap beans cooked with some country ham and never forget that cornbread!

what a beautiful place to live 👍🏻🇳🇱

It's that time of year again and I wish more people would see the need to bring the backyard gardens back, if you know what I'm saying. Looks like Y'all are doing it very well!

@HolmansHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly past few years I have been trying to help coworkers and family members try and raise more of your own food and my wife has been helping people learn canning

@dipstick5869

2 жыл бұрын

@@HolmansHomestead Well that's Great, God Bless Y'all!🙏

@be6715

2 жыл бұрын

More people are gardening since the pandemic than in some time. I'm in the gardening industry and know this is the case. With staying home, people were fixing up their houses and rediscovering the joys of gardening. Some of us, had never lost it, of course. My grandfather was a farmer, my parents gardened, and I garden - even became a horticulturist. We hope that people continue to garden when going back to the office. It is good for both body and soul.

Well this year has flown by. It seems like it wasnt that long ago I was watching you getting ready to plant last years garden. I remember talking about the rattle snake beans.

Thank you for the tour Tipper- I hope you update us as you collect your harvest. I bet your food is so tasty from your own hands and ground instead of store bought we have. I wish you a bountiful year to make all your hard work worthwhile.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you David-we will share updates throughout the growing season 😀

That's alot of work but yall got the tools to make it easier. Good luck with your garden!

It’s awesome how well you have used what you have. Hope to see more of the garden as it grows, I pray you get a bumper crop this year!!

WORK WORK WORK,,,LOOKING VERY GOOD

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you LB 😀

Looks great! Things are budding out down here in Northeast Georgia. I hope you all have a good upcoming week!

Very nice, I spent a warm weekend getting ready to plant as well here in Northern Virginia 🌱 I ordered some Hickory corn seed to plant along a fence line here, we’ll see! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Missing my childhood days of dirty feet from garden work. 💝

Love this! We always had a big garden and we had patches , terrace gardens also for certain types of plants.....spring is almost here , winter has just flown so quickly, seems like yesterday it was Thanksgiving....thanks tipper and God bless y'all....❤🙏

So wonderful to get the garden started! I have squash seeds ready to plant as soon as the soil is warm enough (followed your instruction on drying!)

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

It is so exciting 😀 I hope your squash does well!!

My husband and I did the same thing yesterday. Glad I had some Advil! Now to get my seeds going! I heard you saying something about "where are my clippers?" I had to laugh. I kept loosing mine. I think I need a garden bib! Can't wait to see you plant!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

I love the patches!! I currently only have a 18 by 36 ft garden, with raised beds. But this year I plan to start a new patch, much like yours. Thank you for sharing.

We once lived on a cul de sac named Kailyard. I looked up the meaning and it's a kitchen garden. 🥰

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀 love that!

Sounds like me "What did I do with my clippers?". Lol

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

You all are amazing!!! And you look so cute in your jeans Tipper.

I'm so excited to see your garden patches getting ready. I'm looking forward to seeing them grow and produce luscious food. Your lent Rose's are gorgeous 😍

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

I look forward to your planting and watching it grow and I hope to see you can again..I used to Love gardening growing up and as a young adult and canning. Then ended up living places I could grow flowers, or maybe cheat put a tomato in a pot. Now My Health doesn't give me a break, doesn't look like I ll even have flowers again this yr.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

If I lived close enough I'd share my veggies and flowers with you 😀

So glad to see your weather change and you and Matt making preparations for a big yield this year from the garden. Our large garden each year was a big time of the year for Dad. He called it The Lords’ wonder on earth; he and his two boys would spend many many hours on working in it. Thankfully each year that 1/2 acre would produce so many veggies and of course Mom would “can” or “put up” nearly all the garden produced. Thank you Tipper for showing your garden; it brings back so so many memories. Hope you and your family have a huge yield this year.

I drove my car through my goats pasture to the edge of the alder tree woods last year and got over a hundred 5 gallon buckets of rich black earth beneath the trees, and before that I went to the beach and got 50 or so 5 gallon buckets full of seaweed ghost/crab /shells, seashells and bird feathers from eagles and sea gulls to put in my garden beds then add the dirt on top mixed with my dark rich compost from the barn, im planting several new varieties of large type strawberries this year and two green goose berry bushes, I plant my potatoes(just lay them on the ground) under my lilac and apple trees and throw hay over them so I dont have to water them /my new way of growing them and less work/LOL, your garden patches are looking good thumbs up to you alls garden, you got a lot of good helpers, my family had a saying if you want some help look at the end of your arm!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

You have a little slice of heaven there, Tipper. And you are blessed with people who work very hard to keep that little slice going.

That's great,looks like fun

I will never forget when Hugo hit. We were without power for 2 weeks. They truly were the heros!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

They really were 😀

Your Lenten roses are beautiful. I think you are a full 2 months ahead of us, we're not done with snow yet. The only use of patch that I hear mentioned very frequently in Northern Illinois is people always talk about pumpkin patches (a big crop in this state) and I do remember a song from childhood about a "lonely little petunia in an onion patch" haha!

Oh and my garden used to be kinda big but as i got older it got smaller

Awesome that y’all had a good warm day to start getting your garden beds ready…I’m going to look into those grow bags to plant tomatoes in…actually here in Florida, I should have already had them planted…..looking forward to seeing your garden as you plant & harvest…have a great week 🤗

Love this family so much!

Just wanted to say hello, Steve and I made it safely to our new home in Morristown TN. Hope to get this unpacking done soon, it’s very tiresome 😴. Happy to say we found a church we feel right at home with too. Have a blessed day sister🙋🏼‍♀️

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

That is wonderful 😀

It's only the first week in March. You must be having the March thaw. Enjoy it. You never know about March. In like a lamb out like a lion. Some of our biggest snows were in March.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

So true 😀

@robertbates6057

2 жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia Yeah but.... weather in the So. Appalachians is somewhat unpredictable.Can frost WELL into April.

@keiththomas3141

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertbates6057 Where I grew up in the Northern Appalachians it snowed on my Dad's birthday and that was in May.

@robertbates6057

2 жыл бұрын

@@keiththomas3141 They're calling for 18 degs. and snow for Sat. on Tippers garden.

Ben Gay Awaits. Today was a good day to make a good start and get a lot done! And ya'll did!

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Buz 😀

Oooh. That dark soil looks rich and loamy. BRING ON THE SUNSHINE 🌞.

@juliayoung537

2 жыл бұрын

Hard work to make that too! Compost and fertilizer 💩

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

Beautiful garden

Nice garden spots 👌

Great day for you guys looks fun nice weather. Sure wish I could be doing some yard. Except we still have 3 foot of snow here in Minnesota. Nice job on your raised garden patches. Thanks for sharing I always enjoy your video's.

I love seeing your garden "patches". I'm A container gardener now. I worked several hours yesterday getting them ready. Although it's a little too early to plant I'm getting "the fever". I have one Lenten rose that I put out last spring. Hoping to get more soon. Thanks for sharing your life.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cathy. I hope your lenten roses spreads like mine have 😀

Tipper you got a great garden big enough to feed your family and more too.

I always enjoy the garden updates. I am a beginner starting out with two raised beds this year. Good luck!

16 degrees here today. We generally don’t plant anything before Mother’s Day.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

That is chilly!! 😀

I've heard my Daddy say, when I was a kid, "If y'all don't behave, I'm gonna tear your tail up like a new ground!" Heard folks say they were going to the corn patch too.

Gardening! ❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

I love this family, y’all motivate me and really bring back the best memories! Everyone please stay safe and keep well🙏 pray for peace on earth!!!

My granny gardened on the side of a mountain in Eastern Kentucky. The flat land was where the house, cook house and chickens lived.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I bet she had a great garden 😀

Your gardens are lovely! I miss mine so much, all I have now is a few pots of herbs. One day I hope to be able to have a small yard again. When I had my house I did just what you did, gradually expanding the patches. I'm in Florida, so improving the sand to decent soil was the biggest job, and keeping up with the bugs. I sure do miss my every morning garden chores.

Great video tipper keep up the great work

great to see that there are still some ppl around that can feed there families off the land.. God bless! I live in New York no farming here. My mom made little kitchen gardening in boxes on our window sill. She was from England so she would have love to live like you all

We should be happy we already have our cattle panels. I heard they went up a lot this year. I love your garden area. I can’t wait to see it this Summer. We planted more onions today. I want to grow things we eat a lot of this year. I tried some fun things last year like fennel and lemon grass but I couldn’t get beans to grow well last year!! That new dirt looks so rich in your beds. Happy gardening.

Love how your family works together. There's a lot of work in raising a garden but it's worth it. I planted garden peas, mustard, carrots and beets this week. Have some cabbage and Brussel sprouts plants to set out also. Wish y'all great success. God Bless

Did the same thing this weekend. Got my potato "patch" ready and added soil to my raised beds. I have some large containers I'm going to try some squash, cucumbers and tomatoes in those and I'm trying some of those grow bags this year too, for the first time. I always have a hard time waiting and stick some things out early. I put out just a few snow peas and spinach seeds this weekend. And some radish and carrots. They can all stand some colder weather and sometimes it pays off with something early. Funny, we live on a steep lot that was "in the woods" but when our daughter came along we also did some grading and built a yard. Still not much flat here but there is some flat space now and a bit more sunlight though shade is the biggest limiter for me as far as garden space. Good luck!

Thanks for this video; I sure enjoyed it. It was interesting to see the rocks used as borders. Where I grew up people would use white quartz rocks as borders, I have a lot of them at my house now. Quartz rocks seem to go with areas where gold is located and the Haile Gold Mine is near where I grew up. My family never had any of the gold - just quartz rocks! Something else I think of is that In days gone by some people would line their driveways by burying car tires half way in the ground and painting the top part white. No body does that any more. I don't know if that was just something people from Flat Creek did or not. Thank you for what you do. Dennis Morgan

Related to *vocabulary* I have always said and still say: might-could. We might could put in a garden.

This is what we do in our hills here in SE KY. 😄 I’ve heard it call hop-a-long gardening or hopalong patches 😁 We make little pockets of gardens and are slowly connecting them to make a kinda food forest. So excited to see what y’all create this season. God bless y’all!

Oh yeah it's looking good ❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

😀

love your videos. Ty helps me get thru loneliness of this world.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoy our videos-we appreciate you watching 😀

Looks good. I hope you have a good year for growing. Im looking very forward to getting our gardens planted, but it will be a bit yet up here.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you have a great year too 😀

Good vid! I remember my Dad making me work in the garden when I was a kid. I'd cry as I hoed the rows...lol. I'm glad he did though! I love working in the garden more than anything now.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't like it when I was young either 😀

Wow that’s a lot of garden! I wish I had some sort of garden. However, we have a lot friends who share their harvest with us. Thanks for the tour, Tipper! 😊🇨🇦

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary. I'm glad you've got good friends!

Looks good, really like patch gardens and containers.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

You can really grow a lot of food in them 😀

Thank you to you and the whole family! Your Seattle friend ❤🙏🏽

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Lisa 😀

@Lisa1111

2 жыл бұрын

You bet I did! You're family is a blessed one 🙏🏽😉

The hard thing about gardening a goat bluff is to keep the soil on top. We would use a turning plow to throw the soil up hill and by fall it would move downhill. God Bless.

In Ireland it is known as a potters bed. I remember the years of doing this with my parents and even aunts on the farm. I am now unfortunately in the city. I do container planting along with potters beds.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that term 😀

@christopherfreeman1340

2 жыл бұрын

My late granny from Unicoi county Tennessee used the dialect potters bed. Proves some of my family on my mom's side originally were Irish. She and my grandpap had some beautiful dialect words some scots english welsh,and black country,and some Yorkshar dialect words in their vocabulary. My grandpap some times would tell me to put the wood in the hole meaning to shut the door. My granny would use the Scots dialect tatties for potatoes sometimes too. I miss all the dialect words and meanings from back when I was a wee'un.

@CelebratingAppalachia

2 жыл бұрын

@@christopherfreeman1340 Love that!!

Worked on my patches for 6 hours today!! Had no idea y’all were at it too! Im working all by my lonesome, which I enjoy. Pert near worked myself to death as i do everything by hand aint got no tilers n such. im gona be sore tomorrow but its so worth it !