You can find our full gardening playlist here kzread.info/head/PLnKpaj6ZJDIowwC1Refr3PX28dOT3I1Yq&si=B39yrwTMWPA34z9W

My wife loved those flowers so much that she thinks that they are called Blanket Flowers. She kept stopping your videos when they were visible. We love watching your sweet family. May God bless you

@Connie-TN

23 күн бұрын

Thank you and your wife! Those flowers are stunning I was steadily trying to find out what they were. I’ve already looked and Blanket Flowers took me right to them in my search. I will definitely add these in my garden!

@dannysmith3394

22 күн бұрын

@@Connie-TN your welcome. My wife is planning on adding those to her flower beds.

Hello Lawsons, note on making fig preserves… delicious! I’m 78 and I’ve always made mine the way my mom and grandma made them. Ratio is 2, c fruit to 1, c sugar. Wash cut figs and measure them cover figs with sugar, let stand until it forms syrup. Not all the sugar will not dissolve. You can cover and leave in fridge overnight, remove from fridge, start on low to medium heat. You can increase heat but it will scorch easy. It takes several hours to cook down. To me this is a trick to keep from overcooking. I’ve have begun to use a candy thermometer, letting mixture reach soft ball stage. If they are overcooked, they can go to sugar. When cooked as you like, can in usual canning method. You can used this ratio and way to make other fruit preserves. My husband love blackberry preserves. Hope this helps

@ElaineTheeiot-zm3ul

22 күн бұрын

That is exactly how my mother and now my 74 year old self cooks figs. Also, on the first day of fig season, we made homemade bread so that when the figs were done, the bread was coming out of the oven. Those were the best if days.

@donnasaylor2778

22 күн бұрын

Lawson are the wonderful great parents and love the animals thank God I love all animals ad I love the dirt and I Love the rain the Lkrd sends precious prayers to all

@donnasaylor2778

22 күн бұрын

My grape vines spray with soda and water safe keep off bugs try

Put some net bags (oranges ) around the hanging cantalope & hook it to the trellis - it'll grow inside the bag

@Catherine1151

22 күн бұрын

Wow - great idea!❤ I'm not a gardener anymore and never grew cantaloupe ❤️

Meghan, on, CELEBRATING APPALACHIAN she makes up some kind of pepper spray for her squash and pickle vines and she said it is working... Thought that might be something you might would look in to... It is so dry here also with no rain, I think we are suppose to get a shower on Wednesday... Garden looks so good, ty both for sharing, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH 🙏

Y’all a gardener in Arkansas turned me on to Hungarian Heart tomatoes for the heat. From Baker Creek seeds. I live in zone 7 Memphis. Just picked one today at 1 lb 11 oz. They start at half a pound but most are bigger. Indeterminate Heirloom Pink sweet meaty canning or slicer tomato. I might only grow these next year. Taste like a Brandywine 😋 wish I could show you pictures here. Read the reviews.

Hey friends in North Carolina. I have family there that have lived in Nebo NC all their lives. We live in the beautiful Mountain State of West Virginia. I have prayed and asked God's Blessings upon your garden harvest. Doing great. Hey Meghan I love tomato sandwiches too. Home made bread, mayo and S&P. TFS and God Bless you and your family. 🍅👍🙏❤

I'm not even a gardener but I love listening to your garden videos! I actually love all your videos. You both just teach so much and aren't afraid to say when something goes wrong! I love how you are with the kids too. They're so blessed to have parents like you and one day they'll know it.... they probably do already! ❤

I love this channel so much. I live in southern California and i dream of owning my own land one day. Hopefully i can leave California within the next 3 years until then i have my backyard with plants in grow bags. Our soil is terrible here and i don't own the house. Watching your channel is inspiring. Thank you. God bless ❤

I don’t care how long the videos are, I’m watching till the end.fig preserves are delicious.i love that you don’t waste plants but stick them everywhere.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

thank you

What a great garden!! I planted some corn the other day. I went out to water them this morning and found a few little sprouts coming up.

Blossom end rot - lacks calcium and or water to carry it up in plant - start savin and. Grindin all those egg shells

@murlthomas2243

20 күн бұрын

Calcium nitrate will fix blossom end rot short term. Mix in water and apply to the leaves of the plants. Add bonemeal as a supplement to the bed after the plants are pulled for the winter, and more in the spring before planting.

My 82yo mother prefers the white cucumbers. She says the skin is softer - easier on dentures - and the flavor is milder with no bitter taste. So, I always grow a few white plants for her.

God is good…we got about an inch and a half yesterday..we also had been a long time w/o rain. Most of the corn crop in our area of eastern NC has suffered immensely…some have already plowed their’s in…so thankful for every drop that fell!

@pamwalker6284

23 күн бұрын

Same in southeastern Kentucky. My poor, pitiful corn is only waist high…😢

@kingscairn

23 күн бұрын

Yep , got some rain - no rain measure other than the IBC Water Catchment levels

Jacob is a dedicated hard working young farmer! He sure learned from y’all!

Clicked over from another video SO quick when I saw the notification!! 😂😂

@anncox4445

22 күн бұрын

Me also 😊

I’ve never seen a white cucumber before but I love cucumbers

😂 starve ta death livin off spoon tamatas 😅 😂 good one !😅

Hey Megan, if you guys want to stop the disease on the cukes just spray the leaves and vines with raw milk. You can also mix baking soda with water and spray with it, but don't go to heavy on the soda or you'll kill the leaves. I just sprayed raw milk on my pumpkin vines and it works wonders on mildew. Oh my goodness Meg, you make fig preserves to go with the sausage, eggs and biscuits that will be your favorite breakfast. I just made nine and a half pints and we've already ate the half pint with some buttermilk biscuits and bacon, yummy so good!

Megan you guys sure have the prettiest garden for as hot and dry as it's been. All the hard work shows by how good everything looks

That is one beautiful yard garden. y’all have got it going on. God bless y’all.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

thank you

Finally got the opportunity to watch. I think everybodys garden is suffering from lack of rain. Well water is good but nothing like God's water. Much love from Appalachia Kentucky.

I love that you have taught how to have their own little gardens to work. Future farmers ❤❤❤

Maggie can start her own garden club someday ❤ Please send that spoon tomatoes seeds to Living traditions homestead, Kevin would love that😂

Y’all have the same problem I have, I don’t know which tomatoes are my Hossinators.. my husband planted all my starts and he got a few mixed up. I’ve got way too many Roma’s and San Marzan’s (spelling)planted, it’s alright.. I also planted Basil between my tomatoes this year and I know that’s why the deer have stayed away from that end of garden. The smell of Basil is awesome around our tomatoes.

As many times I have watched your videos I’ve never noticed the fence around your garden but I sure don’t blame you for putting up the fence and your garden looks amazing

Hope you get rain out of the hurricane. In Ohio we’re supposed to be getting some. Blessings

Maybe someone has said this already or maybe you have even tried it already but Diatomaceous Earth Can Kill Squash Bugs.

My experience with vine borers is like yours. They seem to attack the zucchini and not the winter squash. If you take some loose fabric - nylon stockings or bug cover cloth works well, and wrap the base of the zucchini plant loosely where it comes out of the ground up about 6 to 8 inches when they first come up, you will pretty much eliminate the borer. The borers are very limited in the time they lay eggs and if you mechanically block their access to the vine, you win and they lose.

@sandysmith8567

21 күн бұрын

Hi, do you know if they attack cukes as well? Lost my zucchini and squash to them, and in the next box over, a cuke is dying. Also, can I do something to kill the eggs in the soil? Thanks for any help!

@kellymurdock5982

21 күн бұрын

@@sandysmith8567 No I don't know about cucumbers I'm afraid. I suspect they would work the same way. I have read that if you search around the top of the stem where it comes out of the ground you can find a little round hole where the critter went in. And taking a sharp knife and cutting a whole on the top of the vine you may be able to get it out/kill it. It is just a caterpillar that lives in the vine munching away. I have also seen people cover the vines with soil as the vines will re-root if they have soil over them, so that is a way of saving the plant. Maybe till up the soil after the harvest so as to disrupt anything trying to over winter. Good luck!

@sandysmith8567

21 күн бұрын

@kellymurdock5982 Thank you! They're inside a tomato cage but could definitely get more soil pushed in around the base!

You both are such a great inspiration!

My favorite couple to watch on video’s

@Catherine1151

22 күн бұрын

Mine too ❤

Instead of them calling it The Hossinator they should be calling it the HOSSNMATER!! 😂😂😂😂😂

God is so good to us! Praise Jesus! ❤ Love you guys and seeing every new video come out. I don’t have a lot of time to watch stuff these days due to garden and such. But I do enjoy when I can. My garden is pretty big I’m about to harvest my corn between now and the 18th. My pole beans have stalled out due to heat and no rain so I’m sad about that. I did plant some Chinese long green beans and them things like the heat! I plan to plant them things again next year and probably a whole row of them!!! They’re good! Things are beautiful even in the drought. God can make weeds look beautiful lol. ❤ But y’all pray for everyone who is struggling with their gardens and no rain. God bless y’all! Love to you and yours from me and mine here in Florence Alabama. ❤Leslie

GOOD MORNING, YOUR GARDEN LOOKS GREAT. OURS IS DONE TILL FALL HERE IN SOUTH GEORGIA. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

I used some "out of date calcium tablets " around my tomatoes and it helped with the blossom end rot. My Mom always watered her tomatoes as she washed out her milk containers and her tomatoes were awesome. Patera uses Tums and I tried it in my raised beds--- tomatoes did well. My whole garden is a science experiment. I have world champion weeds! Love your channel.

@FireflyHomestead

22 күн бұрын

I think raw milk is a great idea

Aww man you should have let him pick that cucumber. That’s the fun part 😊

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

hes picked several so far, just stands out there and eats them right in the garden

Your tomato plants turning yellow might be magnesium deficiency. You can add Epsom salt around your plants.

Your gardens are beautiful and I love your excitement when you talk about them. I save the mesh bags I get produce in to put melons in when they're hanging like your cantelope is.

BLOSSOM END ROT. You can have beautiful soil from wood chips, but it can lock up CALCIUM for YEARS sometimes and I just crush calcium tablets and sprinkle a lil around the base of the plants and it's a quick fix every time.

Good morning from hot Oregon!! I harvested my little potato patch , I grew them in and old kiddie pool, soil and chicken manure got about 20 lbs , reds and golds an experiment that worked ok

I love your gardens! So pretty! I am amazed at how much you grow! And how diligent you are about it! The kids are growing wonderful gardens, too! So great to see them learning every step of the way! Love your little family and videos!❤

My wife has made fig preserves using different flavors of jello. Strawberry and peach delicious on hot biscuits

Hope hurricane brings y’all some rain like us here in Texas

I enjoyed watching y'all while shelling peas. I went out about 6 this morning and picked trying to beat this heat.

You are the 2nd channel that has said they need rain so I’m sending the rain from Beryl your way. Right now,I’m having the pleasure of experiencing a hurricane in Texas today. It’s been very slow and easy on us! A first ever! Seriously, may God send your beautiful garden,rain soon. Shout out to Tipper of “Celebrating Appalachia” they need rain too!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

I hope we get some more soon, even though we got an inch its soaked it up in a hurry

Those cantaloupes will be fine hanging believe it or not those vines are stronger than you think.

Another great job guys! Precious KIDS!😇!😇!😇!😇!

I just love your garden - I'm learning so much from your channel. I have noticed lime works better for me than Gypsum. My gardens have been in Phoenix and the Ozarks of Missouri. Just thought I'd share.

I just wanted to let you know you are the sweetest family!! I love watching your channel it makes me so happy!

Your channel is the only channel I binge watch. I love how you two are in sync with one another! I found your channel about a month ago and so happy I did ❤

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

thank you

Our squash bugs nailed the squash but left zuchini alone

Hey them October beans are delicious to pick young and snap and add a bunch of the big beans in them and cook till falling apart tender with some bacon fat and grease salt pepper! They are up there with the rattlesnake pole bean to me cooked like that! They’re delicious. Try them snapped and even the young pods roast them with some fresh diced garlic and olive oil salt and pepper on a cookie sheet! YUM!

❤ Morning Meagan & Andy! I learn so much from you two. I had never heard of a vole. M, about the fig preserves, when I lived in Louisiana in the 80s I stayed with a couple til I got settled. They had a fig tree in their yard and one day she was canning something. She said she was making Fig Preserves. They look a bit like apple butter only darker and thicker. They were very tasty, I must say. Some things just don’t sound good, I.e., Mama used to make Prune cakes. Sounds yucky but they were so good. They didn’t have frosting but a glaze over them. Very moist and so good!! By the way, I wonder if you could used fig preserves to make Fig Newtons like you make the Jam Breakfast Bars? I love Fig Newtons. Another thing I ate in LA that I had never had was Beans and Rice. Mrs. Wilson gave each of us a bowl of soup beans with a scoop of white rice in it. My eyes just got big! 😂 I had heard of Red Beans and Rice but never had any. So here I found another food I liked together. My sister brought me her 2nd tomato 🍅 yesterday. She bought a raised bed and only planted tomatoes. She has watered them every night since the area was small. We 3 siblings each got her first 3 tomatoes. My bro. bought raised beds as well. He planted different things. He works 12 hour shifts and my sis in law doesn’t cook so as things come in I hope he can at least fix them so they can eat on them. There is a reason my sil doesn’t cook. It isn’t because of laziness….she is an amazing cleaner. Maggie and Jacob are doing a great job growing!! It makes a big difference when they are doing something they enjoy and are interested in. There isn’t one flower 🌸 I saw that was as lovely as Maggie. Jacob’s pride just beams on his cute face. Y’all have great kids. Praying for rain.🌧️ love n hugs 🤗 💜💜🙏🏻🙏🏻

Good morning

I didn't care for fig preserves but absolutely love pickled figs

Off grid w Doug/Stacy put a stick wrapped w copper in near the potatoes and they got a huge harvest where the copper was and not where there was no copper. I thought this was very interesting! But it can work for all plants !

Megan I've already got a tomatoes. That tomatoe sammich with soft white bread and Dukes mayonnaise is the best. I sometimes crave them in the winter. Well I just make biscuits and tomato gravy and that curbs my cravings. . Very interested in seeing how the compost is done.

With all of y’all’s squash make squash fritters with them and make into patties and freeze them. I got the recipe from the Mac’s life on KZread. Hope you will give it a try my family really liked them.

You have a beautiful garden. I’m so happy for you guys

I did figure preserves, very good.

@marthawalton8370

23 күн бұрын

Have you ever added strawberry jello to fig preserves?

@pamelaworth2890

22 күн бұрын

@@marthawalton8370 No, I didn’t try that. I will.

A great video! My mountain property has never had a garden on it and consists of the red clay you have on your property, I am going to add wood chips to it and hopefully over time it will turn into a soil of sorts.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

yep keep working on it and it will turn into something wonderful

I love your videos! Thanks for the tour

Your gardens look great! Meagan, make those fig preserves! You won't regret it!!!

Hey Meghan ❤

It actually doesn't do the tomatoes any favors by pruning them... I stopped pruning mine and they do just as well, sometimes even better, without the work. Love your channel!

Michigan here! In the middle of the state! Knock on wood """" my garden is doing very good this year! Got good rain just far enough apart!! Little hot, but going good!! I grow Amish paste tomatoes! Big,fleshy!

We LOVE watching your videos! Your garden is beautiful! Maggie's flowers are stunning! I love that Jacob has his own garden! So precious!! You can tell how dedicated you and Megan are to providing food for your family! I love it! Vegetable and flower gardens speak to my soul! I love getting my hands in the dirt. Megan, I started my tomato plants from seeds this year and it does make you feel proud to look at them when you are harvesting those beautiful tomatoes. God bless y'all!

Everything is looking good! Happy gardening.

Enjoy watching your videos, great looking garden for how dry the weather is ❤

Can't wait for the tour!!!!

A place I used to live where i had fenced my garden I also left the posts tall. I was going to run deer netting above the woven wire. Well, one day I walked out & thought it looked funny so I cut them down only to remember afterwards why I had left them tall 😂😂 my bad. Love your gardens and learn a lot about methods to try. I dont have deer pressure here but the squirrels have eaten almost all my peaches! Ugh!!! Look forward to part 2. Blessings 🕊

Andy and Meagan everything looks so good despite the drought. And when you guys figure how to grow junk food, please let me be the first one to know how to do it. Especially ranch flavored Doritos. 😂😂😂❤

Sure did enjoy you and Andy's walkabout around the house and main garden area and the beautiful FLOWER Garden of Miss Maggie's and Jacob's garden too. Our storm has moved on hopefully. We were without pour 3 or 4 times today. No damage to us here in Broaddus TX thank you Lord for keeping us safe. Stay safe over there and keep up the great videos you all share with us. We sure do enjoy your channel a lot. Fred.

We use from Amazon solar powered waterproof vole repellent stakes. They have worked great for us the last 3 years here in E TN. They're pretty inexpensive and can be used over and over year after year. They don't work with some animals though; for instance, Shaggy (an albino skunk) and Scrappy (a skunk) are not deterred by them. Of course, they are not deterred by us either. Walk right up and by. They don't bother us and we surely don't bother them other than telling them to "go on now."

Everything looks great ❤

Andy and Megan here in our part of Arizona we call your garden wire "field wire". We use it around our property but for our garden we use "rabbit wire". We have a lot of rabbits, squirrels and birds. I don't mind sharing with them but they are very picky eaters. They will take a bite or two from a tomato or anything else and decide that one isn`t good enough. So, on to the next and the next and so on. I absolutely love your gardens. It is very difficult growing in the desert. Love your videos! Keep up the good work and doing everything as a family is such a blessed message.

I love fig preserves. You will not regret making preserves. The juice is definitely worth the squeezing. First time I heard that and I will be using it from now on. 😂 Make a hammock for the cantaloupes out of some old material and attach it to the trellis.

What an awesome garden All of your hard work is paying off. Love the kids gardens too. They each need a little sign..Maggie's Garden...Jacobs Garden. Looking forward to part 2..😊😊

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Maggie's flowers are so beautiful❤prayers continue for much needed rain🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️ fig preserves are really good 👍

Those tomato plants are quite impressive!! So TALL!

Enjoying the garden tour. Looks beautiful. I've had problems with end rot on my tomatoes also. So what I read was that the soil lacked Calcium. So, I just crushed egg shells & put in the bottom of the tomato hole when I planted them. Not one end rot. Just wanted to pass it on. Love your videos❤️

Never heard of a Voile and what do they look 👀 like. I’m learning so much from watching you all. Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Love the rooster in the background ❤

I like to dry ALL my hot w some sweet peppers , grind em up and put in a shaker for cookin - sprinkle to taste - cowboy chili and mescun vs omelet or stews, pastas and barbecue - depends on what yer cookin and a little goes a long way - about out and no peppers this year

Love the garden tours and ANYTHING that has to do with a garden!

My mom and i always cut up some lemon in our fig preserves. Stir the cooking preserves well and cook on low to keep them scorching. We also cut our leftover gree watermelon rinds into chunks and preserved them. Delicious with biscuits. Love the Lawsons.❤

You know I turned 68 in May, I grew up on a farm or with gardens. Since yesterday I have smashed my 18th hornworm eating my tomato plants . The only chemical I had handy was 7 dust. I sprinkled it on my tomatoes . I can wash my tomatoes. I didn't put anything on my beans. The Japanese beetles , Mexican beetles and Army worms have eaten to their hearts content. I refuse to let them eat my tomatoes. Seven dust is the only thing I have used so far this season. From my porch I saw #18 wiggling I went out there and he was staring me down and I introduced him to my shoe.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

Japanese beetles have been bad here this year too but I haven't seen a hornworm yet

@sandysmith8567

22 күн бұрын

Garden warrior! Lol!

Thoroughly enjoyed your gardens... thankyou all so much.

Love your show and your gardens and recipes, your family, your faith in Jesus, ALL of it! I got out of the hospital over a week ago and had to rest and recuperate at home and because I watch Whipperwill Holler (a couple in the Arkansas hills who are also about self-sustainability and "keepers of the old ways") youtube suggested your channel. So I watched one, next thing you know I was binge-watching your channel! Oh, I just love you all! So, I'm a new subscriber and just wanted to say thank you for what you're doing (even though I worked at a garden center for about 3 years, I am learning SOOO much!) Your recipes remind me so much of my Grandma's, good homegrown Southern cooking. Yum! And I thoroughly enjoyed this tour. May God continue to bless you both and your sweet family. ~Kelly (katie's my nickname) from Kansas!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

22 күн бұрын

thank you!

I love your dinners. So comforting. ❤

I love Maggie’s flowers. ❤

Wonderful. No better video to watch. Thanks Guys.

Great video as always. Loved the garden tour.

You should take out all the plants with bottom end rot. It is caused by getting the tomato leaves wet when you water them and wood mulch stays wet causing the rot to grow. Don't mulch tomatoes with wood. Use leaves. Hello from Edmonton Alberta Canada. I love your channel, farm and lovely family. Thanks for the tour. 🎉❤

Check the pH around the blossom end rot plants. The calcium of the gypsum is not absorbed by the plant if the pH is too low. You need a pH at 6.5 to 7 for it to be absorbed readily. It sounds like it's time to put down some lime although I probably wouldn't lime next years tater beds. And yes the pH can change over the span of a few feet in the soil such as in the short distance in Jacob's garden.The mater plants aren't stressed and yes those two have an awful lot of leaves. Get some pH readings. Two years is a long time for the chicken poop to have leached out. The garden is doing quite well considering all. Tell Jacob he is doing a fine job.

Love how you space y'all's corn... beautiful place beautiful garden 😊

What a nice garden all of your hard work is paying off. Thank you for the garden tour.

If we could grow junk food, would it be junk food? Lol I am so enamored with all of the sun flowers. I have planted sunflowers everywhere.

I am only doing container gardening this year, but it's been a strange growing season. All (21) tomato plants started out well and suddenly died off. I'm getting some green beans, herbs and had green onions. Thanks for sharing your gardens!

Everything looks beautiful! Enjoy you all so much!!!