"I want to tell you absolutely everything " yesssss

I love you Jess. I hope that doesn't sound crazy but I feel like you're a friend I never met in person. Thanks for being a bright light in this world.

@erikas974

4 жыл бұрын

Very true Happy big bright smart light to help us.😍😍😍

@sylviafoust9545

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't she though! I feel that way to. A sweet friend that I've never met!

@shockingdocumentaries4255

2 жыл бұрын

Jess is one of my best friends, that I haven’t met. 🤪 Thank you for the videos. Watching them is better than therapy. And the old summer tour videos is helping me be patient with my seedlings. A lot of the lettuce and tomato seedlings I’m growing like the Marvel of 4 seasons, Paul Robeson, Thornburn terra cotta, were bought because of things I’ve seen in your videos. You cost me a lot of money. 🤓 I look forward to growing an exotic salad garden this year. In my studio apartment. I’ve been told I can’t do that especially without grow lights or grow cherry tomatoes upside without a trellis. But this is my third year of doing the “impossible”. Thank you for the encouragement and validating my interest in gardening, saving seeds, preserving, cooking from scratch, and just allowing myself to experiment as I make my waiting room my classroom. Btw, your advice you gave about video taping my garden has helped me document the growth in my “Garden Of Eden”, much more easily than writing it down. It also helped me acknowledge that while I don’t want to post pictures of my messy apartment online, I do like being able to notate the development of my plants. In short… You’re NEET-O! 🥰

I love you! I have just started vegetable gardening and everyday I say to my husband "Jess said...."

@SouthFloridaSunshine

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, I catch myself doing that and reporting on what David The Good said or did (he is a tropical garden researcher/author I follow for my zone.) Both teach me so much.

@tinker651

4 жыл бұрын

🤣😂 my husband also knows of Jess!! He fully supports the advice she gives 😁

@choose_joy7950

4 жыл бұрын

Its my 2nd season growing but Oh my!! me too!!! Lol love my KZread university classroom with Jess ,Miah and Ben! (&their friends)lol

@choose_joy7950

4 жыл бұрын

@@tinker651 mine too!

@fromhighheelstohaybales8727

4 жыл бұрын

I do the same!

You need a trash garden. My grandpa had a small space by the backdoor where he put all rescue plants, things he didn't think would live, and any kid experiments (this resulted in a grand avocado tree that lasted over 20 years until a particularly hard frost got it). We keep a trash garden now. It always becomes a favorite spot.

Great tour Jess! I think a lot of people might equate hybrid with genetically engineered, which of course they are not. An F1 is simply a cross that has not had enough generations to become stable and reliably grow true. Most of our heirlooms were crosses at some point.

Chinese noodle beans Lettuce (to save seeds) Purple prodded pole beans Rattlesnake pole beans Zloty chamomile Texas hill country okra Silver slicer cucumbers Armenian white long cucumber Melons (volunteered) chives Delice de la table melon Banana plants Thai basil Sweet basil Leeks Hot banana pepper Purple opal basil Blue dwarf sweet corn Kajari melon Cabbages Beets Thyme Nasturtiums Silverbeet Swiss chard Kale-scarlet, blue curled, thousand head, dinosaur Kalettes Collard greens Catnip Pumpkin spice jalapeño total eclipse squash Ozark beauty strawberry Arty the Artichoke parision pickling cucumber Mexican sour gherkins(cucamelons) ** bush beans holy basil TOMATOES- sun sugar, sweeties, sun golds, Napa Chardonnay blush, purple bumblebee, Amy’s apricot cherry, blue gold berries, brad’s atomic grape, sweet 100’s, splash of cream (variegated), Barry’s crazy cherry, striped German, costoluto genovese, jersey devil, rose, homestead, pineapple, mr. stripey, hillbilly, floradad, San marzano, climbing Trip-L Crop, Mortgage lifter, Homs II, Eva’s purple ball, Dr. Wyche’s yellow, vintage wine, persimmon, black beauty, Abe Lincoln, Paul Robeson, Cherokee purple HIGH TUNNEL tomatoes: Jetstar, better boy, Amish pasta, bonnie’s best, Arkansas traveler, climbing trip-l crop, dr Wyche’s, blue beauty, Black beauty Kellogg’s breakfast great white, trip-l crop tree, Abe Lincoln, Jalapeños Cayenne peppers Habanada Nadapeno Gypsy sweet pepper Candy cane variegated sweet pepper Poblano Bell peppers Chili Marasal Pasilla bajio Fish pepper Tobasco Sugar rush peach peppers Classic eggplant Anaheim chili Shishito Edirne striped eggplant Antigua eggplant Pineapple ground cherries Sweet potatoes-beuraguard, other red sweet potatoes Jerusalem artichokes Sherbert watermelons Sugar baby watermelons Red fingerling potatoes Sweet meat squash Butternut squash Okra- burgundy, emerald, Clemson spineless, Texas hill country Spaghetti squash Honey nut squash New England pie pumpkins Sunburst F1 hybrid squash Yellow crook necks squash Pattypan Zucchini Lemon balm Mint Cantaloupe Desert king melon Orange glow melon Moon and stars melon Silver queen okra Cucuzzi gourd rosemary ginger Ancash market cucumbers red Malabar spinach Ground cherry Tomatillo Curly leaf parsley Field peas Coral zinnias Roselle marigolds Roses lillies Tall trailing nasturtiums Cutting sunflowers Other zinnias blue butterfly pea clematus Lantana (sp?) Fig trees Inferno coleus Dahlias Yellow canary zinnias Sunflowers I KNOW i missed some, but i kept having to go back because my ipad was changing my words, autocorrect ☹️😆 i tried!

@AB-ol5uz

4 жыл бұрын

wow! I'm impressed! Great help

@TalkingThreadsMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this! Gives the rest of us a chance to scan the list and double-check what to consider adding into our own gardens for next year! Kate

@dianetucker2711

4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU ❣️❣️❣️

@robinharris3124

4 жыл бұрын

WOW !!! I so need You to help organize my life !!! Would You Be "Up for Adoption" by any chance ??? I promise to "Spoil You Rotten" (in a good way) LOL !!!

@grammi-d

4 жыл бұрын

WOW! if you ever need a job, and have a local junior college, you might want to see about being a notetaker for students with disabilities. Good job!

would you ever consider doing a REALLY indulgent compilation (because I assume you'd have to film it over several harvests) of the types of tomatoes you're growing and their cross-sections/flavor profiles/uses? Or maybe even something like a "tomatoes of the week" bit?

@RootsandRefugeFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@doodiehead17

4 жыл бұрын

Tomato of the week!!! I love that!

@lydiahenry1606

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I love that.

@Just-Nikki

4 жыл бұрын

Kinetic Kittens so many good ideas in this comment section 👍

... I love each and every one 💕 of your garden 🌿 🍅 tours, Jess. ☺️🤗✝️

I think the Brad's Atomic grpes taste hoppy too. You could your extra mint for your chickens, add dry mint to nest boxes and floor as a preventive for bugs and such plus your coop will smell extra fresh.

@seedaholicgardens9085

4 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT!I can* learn as much from the comments as i do from Jess!Thank you!

@Just-Nikki

4 жыл бұрын

Lindsey Curry My husband says my chickens probably have the best smelling bums in Missouri 😜 I make nesting box herb mixes for our girls as well. I also have over a dozen Brads atomic grape tomatoes growing, they’re so much fun!

@jsalyersarts

4 жыл бұрын

@@Just-Nikki How do you tell when they're ripe?? I have pretty large, almost totally purple tomatoes with just a few green streaks here and there.

@farmerchick3040

3 жыл бұрын

I hang extra herbs in my barn and when dried crush them up for the nest boxes it's great.

Good job with giving us notes on varieties and seed co.

I love how you address judgy questions with non-judgy answers. Garden is beautiful! You have inspired me to embrace myself more. God's love to you.

@KateSpiller

4 жыл бұрын

She is such an inspiration in that way.

I can see a farm to table restaurant and visitor center in the roots and refuge future... Getting chip and jo gates magnolia vibes watching how much the garden space and homestead is growing..... Also just really wish you guys would do that 😊😊

@RootsandRefugeFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Hey I receive this! It’s my total dream!

@rachelsotora2668

4 жыл бұрын

I’m here for it!

@s30123

4 жыл бұрын

@@RootsandRefugeFarm Yeessssss! I can totally see it in my mind.... Goat milk, yogurt, cheese... The eggs, the garden.... School busses on field trips.... And maybe classes and seed swaps..... Sign me up as the first season pass holder 😁

@itsbreellis

4 жыл бұрын

@@RootsandRefugeFarm Omg I would love that!!

@thelocalroot1724

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

Uhg Jess, I so needed this today. Covid is so so wretched up here. Such a lonely single mom life! Thank you for being you 💚

@gloriahastings7687

4 жыл бұрын

Gardening at all levels has saved many of us from going bonkers over COVID and we couldn't have done it without fabulous people like you, Jess and Miah, and Ben (reminds me so much of another sweet boy).

@shannonstephens4245

4 жыл бұрын

Im a farmer that never leaves the hollar so I cant say I know how you feel or even know who you are but I just thought I would chime in and say.. Hang In There!! This to will pass!! Stay Safe and try to have a GREAT DAY!!!

@racheec2398

4 жыл бұрын

🤗

Cant wait til I can retire and just garden...I work two jobs and still garden....my happiest time is working the earth..but I'm close..thank the Lord

How in the world you remember all those names of tomatoes is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks for the tour! Loved it

On the Clematis, plant a shorter growing something at the bottom of the plant, as they like to have their feet covered. I wish my garden looked that good. I can't wait to get back in the country.

I was literally thinking to myself "i hope you list where you order your seeds" then you say "ill list all the seeds companies." 😁

I miss this garden 😢 I love your new one too ❤

I have been so thinking that Jess would fit very well with Chip and Jo's new programing. If anyone has any way to contact them please do. Jess just has that "it" personality to fit with their style.

Kale in the greenhouse is a year old and it bolted for us. I got busy, left it, it never got pollinated, and It's gone back to making leaves. Kale in the garden goes to the chickens when the worms get it so the chickens can put a dent in the life cycle of the cabbage moth. I'm growing atomic grape this year. It's setting fruit and when we taste it, I'll let you know if it tastes hoppy. Nasturtium seed is also supposed to be a natural dewormer for chickens. I love lemon basil and it reseeds all over my garden. I love pineapple tomato! It's awesome that your back to calling them Witchies! I water my squash heavily and then wait for the squash bugs to crawl up the stems. I hand pick them and give them to the chickens or you could go with a jar of soapy water. That butternut is a champ and the melons are looking good. When your peppers are small, snip the tops so the branch out and get bushy. That's awesome that Jeremiah has his own beds! It sounds like you've got everything covered.

The Coleus is 'Stained Glassworks Presidio'. We use them for our seasonal color clients.

I rarely comments but your garden is absolutely beautiful and interesting to rediscover! Thank you for this tour!!! ☺️

Garden tours on all my tvs during the break and it is such a happy day

Ben a.k.a. the garden boy, has such a infectious smile!!!

Also Jess re: the lantana, they go dormant in winter and look dead. It’s normal, they are also usually one of the last plants to break dormancy in spring.

I love how much you changed my mind on what hybrids were. For some reason they weirded me out. Deff appreciate the heirlooms too but its nice to not feel odded out by hybrids. Thanks!

@donnareed3822

4 жыл бұрын

My mom who has been gardening forever. She’s over 80 she told me that not all heirloom things are great and not all hybrids are bad.

@claireisacamel

4 жыл бұрын

And there’s totally a difference between a hybrid tomato that can deal with my humidity a little better vs. a gmo’d franken-soybean that can withstand roundup and doesn’t need any nutrients in the soil to grow haha

Gardening is just that for me a chance to renew life ❤️🙏👨🏼‍🌾

I'm going back and watching garden tours again as I am starting seeds. I'm dreaming of all the varieties that will be in my garden this year!

You know I do not grow on your scale,but I am excited to see we are growing a few of the same things!

I’m so happy that Hollis sent me the solution to squash vine borers. Insect Netting can also work for all plants that don’t require pollinators. Let’s just cover them all with insect netting through their entire growing duration from seeding to harvest. Thank you for sharing your beautiful gardening journey. You are greatly appreciated.

These tours nourish my soul. I hope you show us your food prep /cooking for these veggies with the intriguing names and characteristics. I was brought up eating very plain, basic, inexpensive, somewhat over cooked foods that I did not really like very well. Think of those overcooked, unappetizing foods at the school cafeteria’s 55 yrs ago and you have the idea. Now I eat mostly raw fruits and veggies with dairy. But I want to learn. You do such a wonderful job with your videos and editing. Love Bear, goats, etc. your kids have a wonderful place to grow up/play. You are doing a great job with them. I really appreciate all you offer us. That kitchen will be ‘The bomb’ and can’t wait to see you and Miah’s creation. Thank you.

95% of having a green thumb is learning a tiny bit about watering, learning that over watering is as bad as under watering, and learning the signs of each. Most plants killed by people die from one or the other.

My brassicas overwintered here in Michigan with nothing but the tansies beside them for protection. Now they're flowering beautifully and will provide seeds for next year!

I really miss this old content of yours. So I’m watching all your old stuff for spring inspiration

This is my favorite part of the week!

Holy cow you guys must love spicy food! All those peppers!!! Having a terrible day with a lupus flair on the couch... thankyou and god bless you for this video to watch this afternoon... :)

I love your Garden Jess.Beautiful.I could watch forever.Thank you.🙂♥️

My family calls me king coleus because I love growing as many funky varieties as possible to collect seeds and they propagate so easily! I love your varieties, very different that second one!

Wow i am impressed. I love jess's passion and zeal for gardening. Knowledgeable, very nice lovely character, perfect and beautiful lady.

Raising Mystery Tomatoes is like raising children. The mystery of waiting to see who they’ll be is miraculous. I think Benjamin gave you a super fun lesson in love, patience and curiosity! T I love your channel!

Hi. Move Newt's cage around n he will "MOW" your grass around the walk ways. Peace to you and yours

I recommend growing Kabocha! It is such a delicious squash. My homestay mother in Japan cooked it almost every way possible and I never got tired of it.

@gailpetchenik3048

4 жыл бұрын

What type of squash is kabocha? Never heard of it

@howthetidefalls

4 жыл бұрын

@@gailpetchenik3048 It's grown heavily in Mexico, Japan, and Hawai'i (and probably some other places). In Japan, Kabocha is their word for pumpkin. Japanese people I spoke to have never eaten our orange pumpkin before (aside from starbucks pumpkin lattes!). Kabocha is a winter squash that is green on the outside and orange on the inside. It has a sweet and savory flavor. My host mom would serve it in miso soup, sauté slices of it, steam it, make it into croquettes, use it in tempura, boil it, wrap bacon around kabocha slices and fry it, and more! I live in Colorado and in the winter I can buy it at Whole Foods.

@THuuDo

4 жыл бұрын

It’s delicious!!!

Gardening is a life long experience and experiment....we grow and we learn .

I have zinnias with red stripes and they come in all different colours. They’re called peppermint stick zinnias. The garden is looking so good 😍

@Just-Nikki

4 жыл бұрын

Lateshia Anne I’m growing those this year and I can’t wait for them to bloom!

I don't hear anyone talking about Grape Tomatoes. These are the most wonderful SWEET you can ask for.

I’m so thankful I found your channel this year! This is only my second year ever having a garden and I’ve realized that growing in the crazy Arkansas weather has its own challenges...I’m always checking your updates to see if our garden is “on track”! I live in Morrilton, so it’s been so encouraging to have your channel as a resource when I’m freaking out about a freeze or big storm or other random garden crisis to be adverted!

I love the way you put the text in for each plant! I’m making a long list for next growing season!!

Love you, your family and your channel! I watch a lot of gardening videos, and yours are my favorite!! You are lovely, authentic, you know your stuff and you provide tips I don't see anywhere else!! The trick with the tomato suckers?!!! Genius!! Reminding us the possibilities of sowing multiple times during the season?!!! Brilliant!! We NEED those reminders!! EVERY year!! Hihi! Hugs from Quebec!❤🥬🍓👩‍🌾🌸

Best part of the week!! 🥰

Everything is looking so beautiful... we’ve had so much rain I’m just getting out to pick and prune several things.. you always amaze me with all the varieties you grow💚🌱💚

@claireisacamel

4 жыл бұрын

I’m in Jackson and went away for the last few days and sheesh! Haha came back to tons of picking and pruning to do!! And even with all the rain, I still have to water today 🤣🙈

Was just saying to hubby "Where's Jess this morning?"😲

@RootsandRefugeFarm

4 жыл бұрын

lol, painting my cabinets and looked at the time. Thought "Shoot! I forgot to publish the tour!"

@kidznkiddz07

4 жыл бұрын

👍🏋️‍♀️💪💕💕💕

Yay! I love the garden tours!🙌🏻😍

I cannot wait until i see you harvesting all those tomatoes in the next few months!

I've been looking forward to this all week! ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for labeling everything, it is hard to find seeds when you do not clearly hear what someone said or you do not know the spelling.

@RootsandRefugeFarm

4 жыл бұрын

That’s was my hope!

@ameliakat9982

4 жыл бұрын

That's how I make my list each year 🙂

The garden is looking great! What a blessing. 💖

Your garden is always so inspiring! Loving the cottage garden too!

This is my first year gardening and I have had some crazy challenges especially with my tomato plants. I went on a short trip and came back and all of my tomatoes and peppers were extremely sad. They were all yellowing, droopy, and had brown spots. The tomatoes would not set fruit for weeks. I spent the week pruning them and caring for them as best as I could but was still worried. I watched this video yesterday as I was starting to lose hope for my little garden and then your talk about rehabilitating plants really lifted my spirits. I woke up this morning both of my tomato plants have finally set another fruit after about three weeks of the flowers just dropping off of them!

I would love to see a what I eat in a week video to see how you use all your lovely fresh vegetables and what you can. One of my big garden challenges is figuring out how to use everything!

These are my favorite kinds of tours! Beautiful Jess!

I love your garden and completely agree with you about the whole black thumb thing. Like you I thought I had a black thumb and just then realized I never really cared to learn their needs and completely left it to chance and hoped for the best. But like everything else in life, they just require effort and they are so eager to please when you do just that. I plan to completely give up a couple beds to my children for them to plant and take over and tend to. The lessons they’ll reap will be invaluable. Thank you for what you do!

I sooo look forward to your garden tours and watch your channel every day. ❤️ Blessings

I love how Bear is always assisting You in these videos... It make me smile, especially when I imagine him with a clip-board making notes on everything You say... He's such a devoted gardener :)

Everything is looking so alive- beautiful! Y'all are doing amazing!

What a fun tour! I'm amazed by your memory.

Was waiting for the tour. I love it!! Greetings from the Netherlands

Garden tour time!! Yesssss!! I love your new harvest vlog idea too! Hello from NC :)

I love your garden tours. It’s a highlight of my week. You give some good tips on why you grow the different plants. Love ,love it.

You have been such an inspiration to my small urban homestead in Collingswood, NJ - zone 7a (ish)! Yay! Love your garden!

So lovely! Omg I love Sunday tours 🌻🌻🌻

Yay garden tour. You are the highlight of our Saturday evening nowadays - a potter round your garden is far better than anything on tv.

I love seeing Ben in your videos and how sweet and helpful he is. Gardening is great especially when you have such a great helper.

I read that the Italian trumpet zucchini sqwash that has a bulb at the end has a strong enough stem that vine borers can't damage it. Also it can be used as a winter squash. It also can be cut off daily and still stay fresh on the kitchen counter.

That’s a lot of love and if you find something you love it makes the work a lil easier.

I watch all of your videos! You inspire me so so much!

I cannot believe how fast your garden grows! It’s unreal!

I'm at home here with you in Arkansas. Thank you Jess for sharing your beautiful life with us all.

I always look so forward to your tours. Thank you!

Wow! Such a great memory you have. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I bless you too!

You & Your Mom are the same way My Mom & I We’re 😭 She had the green thumb & I killed everything without trying. But, I think 🤔 I have My Mom “Angel “ in my Garden! It my second year having a garden that flourished 😎👍

I can't wait to watch this again tomorrow night with some nice wine after my kid goes to bed 😍

@gloriahastings7687

4 жыл бұрын

Great idea!! 🍷🍷🍷🍷

One thing you might like to try is to use a paper hole punch on the plant marker tags and zip tie them to the cattle panels a couple feet off the ground. They stay on well even in the wind or rain. Then just use a sic cord to cut them off at end of season.

I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Those variegated tomatoes are so cool!

Jess, you can propagate a new tomatillo plant from a cutting from your existing plant. This allows you to jumpstart a larger second plant.

The cottage garden is far from being "the same " lol - it's growing like "weeds "🌱😁🐞

Late watching your tour. I was busy working in my garden. I love your tour videos. They are so informative and relaxing. It's so nice to see how everything grows. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden with me. God bless 🌻💗🙏🌻💗🙏

As a fellow Arkansan, I have learned so much from you. I have always been a backyard gardener but you have given me confidence to try new things. Just got seeds this week to get fall crops started.

@RootsandRefugeFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Im so glad to hear that!

Hello, again.... great job teaching all of us.

I’m here for that intro videography, continually outdoing yourself as always!

Ben is precious!

All I can say is WOW!!! GOD BLESS 🙏🌈❤

This tour was wonderfully thorough. Thank you for taking the time to post the names and give so much “side” info!

So Good! Glad you went through ever variety!

Harvest and canning is going to be an UNDERTAKING!!!

Glads never fail to be beautiful...grew them for years...and one of the most awesome cutting flowers you can grow and you can plant really dense..

Love your content and I learn so much...that I dont have to experience myself...dont have the time..since I work two jobs..you have been a def blessing on my gardenlife

These are the top ten videos on KZread, thank you for your good work and lovely garden!

A friend gave me a few months ago what he thought were spaghetti squash seedlings, but I now have a very nice number of lemon cucumbers. They grow very well here in Shreveport, La. Just two vines are producing lots of fruits and only on the lower half so far. The upper half hasn't put out any females blooms yet, but I'm sure they are coming soon.

Thanks Jess! Now my Saturday is complete.😊 Your garden looks fantastic. I don't envy you putting up all of the harvest, but it should be fun in that Beautiful new kitchen. Your pantry is going to look amazing with all of the food stored there. Be blessed 🙏

Thanks, so inspiring and your homestead is amazing.😊❤️☕️🌽🥬🌷🥓🌻🐥🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻