Hello from Ireland. 8pm here and I've just come in from my garden. I've been working out there all day and now ready to sit down and enjoy watching yours. Happy watching everybody ❤

@helenreid7712

24 күн бұрын

Hey from sligo

@catracampolieto8989

21 күн бұрын

Erin go braugh.❤

An older gentleman told me a few weeks ago he grows enough squash for our entire county. So I asked him what he does for squash bugs? He said buys a 50 lb bag of oranges. And puts the orange peels in the ground when he plants the squash! I'm going to test this out I believe he knows what he's doing 😂

@johnna4487

24 күн бұрын

Does he bury the peels?

@Melissa-mh8nv

24 күн бұрын

@@johnna4487 Yes Ma'am

there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes. You are rich! You have both!

Jess, the story about oak trees blesses me so much! I am continually inspired by how important legacy is to you. I feel kindred in that. When we own a home someday, we plan to plant fruit trees as a sign to our children of how important legacy is. That our children and their children may eat the literal fruits of our labor if they are good stewards to care for the trees.

@thegrahamericandream531

25 күн бұрын

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@sabrinaa4872

15 күн бұрын

I'm glad you liked that, I personally find it very weird.

@jIlLiAnganz

15 күн бұрын

@@sabrinaa4872 why do you find it weird?

@jIlLiAnganz

15 күн бұрын

@sabrinaa4872 nevermind. After clicking your name, I see your other comments on this channel are also a bit passive aggressive. I hope others can see that before you delete them. The community on this channel is the most positive and life-giving I have experienced on KZread. I hope you stay and can genuinely enjoy, instead of calling someone or something that is very wholesome, "weird."

@sabrinaa4872

9 күн бұрын

@@jIlLiAnganz Or we can be different and don't need to be exactly the same?

Hello from the mountains of Panama! Here's a suggestion for your super abundance of holy basil (or any other prolific volunteers). Take chunks of those seedlings and pot them up to sell at your Farmer's Market on Thursdays. Your community will surely bless you 🙂!

@hollymorhart6990

20 күн бұрын

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Rabbits! I encourage gardeners to get a rabbit. Collect the rabbit poop and immediately toss into garden or potted plants. It doesn’t need to be composted like all other manures and it comes in cute and non-stinky pellets. I pull my weeds and clippings and old plants and feed to the rabbits then the manure feeds the garden. It’s the best fertilizer and it’s free. I’ve been using it for 3 years now and my rabbits are happy.

@sophiacarney9068

23 күн бұрын

Yes! We used a natural small wood shaving for their bedding so it could just be thrown down with it and also give a bit of mulch.

Ma’am, I think God met with you in your garden while eating that cucumber. I felt the Holy Spirit. Yes, we get to eat food we grew in our yard! What a freedom and divine miracle He gave us in growing food. A literal gift from the Creator of that seed. Amen and amen.

@hollymorhart6990

20 күн бұрын

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I love your oak tree history/story!! How cool is that 🥰!! Can’t wait to see them grow along with you and your family.

After your tragic experience with compost in your high tunnel, I refuse to buy compost. Instead I have volunteered to cut the Boy Scout playing field for free as long as I can have the clippings. I know they don’t use anything on the field. Today I got 8 wagon loads of clippings. Now I add chips of wood and wood shavings that I know the origin of and top it off with my chicken coop cleanings. Toss regularly and voila I have compost for my garden in the spring. This year I had about 10 yards of beautiful compost that I had complete confidence in and my garden is beautiful. I am sorry your high tunnels suffered so badly but your experience was my wake-up call. I am also growing my own worm castings. It’s definitely the more labor intensive way to farm but as you can well attest, it’s heartbreaking to see all your hard work go down the drain because of something you didn’t even know was a threat.

Thank you for sharing! My almost two year old son loves watching these with me! He kept trying to copy all the different plants you were mentioning, and it absolutely warmed my heart hearing him say, “Cucumber! Calendula! Plaaaaants!” in his little toddler dialect. 💕

Best part of the garden tour was watching Bear follow you everywhere you went. He loves you so much and it kind of breaks my heart to see he is getting up in age and seems to be slowing down. Such a sweetheart.

Omg Jess...I love the story about the tree seeds. I have been a gardener for 40 years and just started growing trees from seed. It is incredible to watch such a beautiful majestic creature such as a tree grow from a tiny seed. Thanks for that memory. May the blessings of God continue to touch your homestead.

Your cucamelon tubers may have survived the winter! In their native land, they are actually perennial ❤

Homestead Hart lost an entire crop due to Black Kow killing the entire field. I lost all my tomatoes (planted with eggs like you did) due to a new bag of Black Kow. I think you hit the nail on the head, they are selling compost that is not ready, affecting tons of gardeners. Thank you for posting!

I always just love that story about your families longtime owned homes and the oak trees. I remember the video where you generously took us back there with you and I am so happy that you’re planting those oak trees outside your home that Miah builds❣️❣️

White icicle radishes planted with your squash will keep squash bugs away. I’ve been planting them with my squash here in Oklahoma like this for 20+ years and IT WORKS! I never have squash bugs! I let the squash come up 2-3 weeks before planting the radishes as the radish grow faster. I plant them intermingled with the squash. It works will all squash varieties!

@classicrocklover5615

25 күн бұрын

Thank you! Do you ever pull the radishes? Or just let them mature and seed out?

@valynndavis9071

25 күн бұрын

I pull a few and eat. I leave at least 3-4 with each plant and let them go to seed. But I cut the seed heads off and keep them for next year. Once they go to seed, you shouldn’t eat them. They don’t taste very good, are tough, and from what I’ve been told, are toxic after going to seed. How true the last one is…I’m not certain; I just don’t take any chances 😂

@cherylwilson716

24 күн бұрын

I am going to try it.

@valynndavis9071

23 күн бұрын

I give my squash about 2 weeks growing time once they pop up out of the ground (I direct sow) and then I sprinkle radish seeds in around them. If I thin them out, and there is a little hole, I drop some down in it. I swear by this-I have only had squash bugs once and it’s when I couldn’t find the white icicle radishes! And they were so bad 😖

@Luciana98

15 күн бұрын

Thank you, trying this, planted random radish seeds around them now til I get the white icicle ones

It's so good to hear that there is a soil issue...I bought 2 new green stalks and filled them with organic omri certified potting soil and new strawberries. 2/3s of them died..grrr

As a Colorado gardener I’m here to say gardening here is unlike anywhere else. We get hot beautiful weather in Marchish only to then get snow in April and May often times. In August our tomatoes are just starting to really produce.

@jIlLiAnganz

27 күн бұрын

I hear you! I'm at 9,100ft here in CO. Officially, we don't have a last/first frost date for our zip code because cool air settles in our mountain valley and there is a chance all summer. I watch the forecast daily to know when I need to throw on frost cloth - which I also keep handy for sudden afternoon hail !! Multiple times last summer, I ran out to cover the garden while getting pelted with hail. 😅 I desperately want to move so that I can have top soil and a growing season more than 100 days!

@MaryAnnODell

27 күн бұрын

I’m in southern Colorado and I totally get you.

@RockymountainRach

27 күн бұрын

Just above you in the Canadian Rockies, I hear you!

@twinmama16

26 күн бұрын

I had 3plants last year in the springs on my patio, were doing so well then got wrecked from hail 😩 I think that's why I didn't plant any this year, Colorado weather is very whacky and frustrating

@Sky-Child

26 күн бұрын

Sounds like Scotland! Our day temps are high 20s (celcius) but our lows overnight can still be frost. My tomatoes will still be green come harvest time (but still tastier than shop-bought!)

This was a pleasant place to be with you Jess, and all here today!! Thanks for sharing your Gorgeous Creations with us in this manner to mingle together!! Love ya, my friend 💞💐👩‍🌾🌿🌱🪴

Bear is such a good dog.

Jess, I love how you put squashes in all different places in the garden. I've been doing that with my peppers, tomatoes and melons to see where they grow the best. Because of you I've planted some sweet pea flower seeds. Can't wait for them to flower. Thank you for the lovely garden tour!❤

My Sweet Peas are about 4” and will last until the Fall if I keep picking them blooms , my grandma always had them and I got my love for them from her and plant them every year .

Oh... How lovely...and the Oak Tree story is so heart touching... You are a romantic soul and I can so feel it... I have a huge Oak tree in my front yard and I love it. Bless you and yours!

Your gardens are looking great, they are the bees knees.

I agree with the bagged soil issue. I have some where the top of the container looks like it was filled with paper mache. It’s like clay on top with wood chips. I finally bought a compost tumbler so I could take some control of my soil.

Girl I didn't even PLANT cucamelon seeds and they grew with something else I planted 3 years ago. I am STILL getting volunteers 😂and they aren't even in the same area that the original grouping was. Between those and all of the volunteer pineapple ground cherries we will have snackies for a while! Your asparagus jungle is just STUNNING!

Beautiful Holy Basil! Wish i could buy some❣️your entire garden is lively esp. those dahlias & banana plant🏵️☘️

We'd all love a tiny cucumber from your garden!!!

Hi Jess🫶Bless you for garden touring with us in this heat. Im in Northeast Texas and heat index is 103.🥵

My cucumbers are in full production and everyday my kids eat their fill, and my son always says "way better than store bought cucumbers"

Kevin at Epic Gardening put out a video today doing an experiment testing 14 types of potting soil. Fascinating and proves it can absolutely just be the soil. I, of course, had purchased one of the lowest ranking ones on his experiment. I will be amending like crazy.

I remember when you told the houses goodbye!! I cried

Oh my goodness! The gardens have really exploded in a fantastic way! Thanks for sharing Jess! Have a blessed day!❤

So cool that you are growing Kibbler okra! The tours of Dr. Kibbler’s gardens on Honeybee Hollow Garden’s channel absolutely make me swoon! He is a true treasure with such a wealth of knowledge about plants and gardening.

One dinner plate Dalia makes a stunning table centerpiece just by itself! Beautiful!❤ Blessings!❤

Here in Fairhope, Alabama I put 70% shade cloth over my beds last year. The sun scorched the eggplants! Fortunately, I brought them inside and they were fine on my plate. 😀

@julieliner1498

25 күн бұрын

Good idea...my peppers are already feeling sunburned in NC. I didn't even think about the eggplant.❤

😊❤ thank you Jess you are so awesome and so many ways and I love seeing your beautiful garden and your beautiful face thanks for going live and enjoy your inspiration so much lots of love from Michigan 🥰 I have been watching you since 6 years ago and you have bloomed so much and touched my heart though gardening!!💚

Behind? Jess, remember where you came from! Some folks are just starting 😉.

Love a garden tour! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕

Hello from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Today is our last frost date!

@jIlLiAnganz

27 күн бұрын

Happy Planting!! 🎉

@classicrocklover5615

25 күн бұрын

Hello from the Thumb!

I planted big kahuna bush beans this year....I was shocked by how much they produced and are still producing even though we're well over 100 here in Phoenix now...I just canned my 6th quart of beans today from about 25 plants

“freshly quenched garden!” Perfect description of what we’re experiencing here, too! Amazing growth!

The story of the oak trees totally made my heart swell and tears come to my eyes, it was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing that. Just an fyi: for squash bugs we use Beneficial Nematodes. They're amazing! Loved the tour. Makes me jealous at how much rain you get. I'm on the western slope of Colorado where we avg 100 degrees every day from June through September, with less than 15% humidity and absolutely no rain unless it's a short week of "monsoon" season. You're absolutely right that the rain makes all the difference.

Oh my gosh!!!….im not exaggerating when I tell you that I check my tube everyday, sometimes multiple times a day to see if you’ve uploaded anything new!! Thank you for all the education that you’re constantly feeding us! Thank you for your time, and for the love, and genuineness you convey in every single video! ❤❤

I'm in Upstate NY, zone 6, my chamomile bloomed this week! Started it from seed in a milk jug greenhouse on March 1st when there was snow ❄️ I love seeing where everyone is at, gets me excited for June! 🥰

@TheADHDHomestead

27 күн бұрын

The acorns from the trees from your childhood is the best idea to take a piece of home 🥰

when you said you went back and grabbed some acorns I started to cry. What a beautiful story and beautiful garden. I wanted to visit when I was on my way back from Albuquerque. Drove back stayed in GA visiting a friend. Went through S Carolina and kicked myself for not contacting you so I can see your garden. Maybe there was a reason. God bless you and your family.

I'm from S. Indiana. You have inspired me to grow Paul Robeson, Dr whyces, and big rainbow. I winter sowed them in milk jugs. I cannot wait to taste them.

We just chop up the fennel bulbs along with some other veg roughly chopped (potatoes, carrots, onions etc), drizzle with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and roast them in the oven. Delicious.

@thewaywardirishican

26 күн бұрын

Thanks! I have been wondering how to use too-I saved a sad little seedling from its death at a nursery and now it’s huge and I didn’t know how to use it!

Jess i once grew sweet peas at a place we lived i just got them looking beautiful and blooming and the building maintenance came and pulled my beautiful flowers out and stuffed them all in a garbage can, i was in tears and shock for days.... Enjoy your beauties i love your gardens, thank you for the tour🙏💕🥰

Fennel is amazing roasted when sliced kind of thin. It makes a lovely accompaniment with white beans and olive oil on pasta. It's great raw shaved thin as a salad with olive oil, parmesan optional. However you serve it, save some of the soft new growth to use as a garnish. The seeds are delicious either dried or fresh.

Please keep us posted on the soil. I am in Lexington County also and have purchased 25 bags of Baccto. Everything looks amazing and lush. Rain does the ground good.

I have missed your garden tours! Yep... humidity in the south is something else. You've inspired me.... the next time it rains I'm doing a garden tour myself.😊

29:32 This. Favourite moment of this video. Your genuine appreciation for real food. 🥰 These are the moments when we say “Worth it.”.

Jess I did the same thing with lemon trees before my grandma’s house was sold I picked 2 lemons and grew a lemon tree from seeds from her tree

Bear ALWAYS behaves himself;)

@daisyblooms4813

15 күн бұрын

HA! I said that out loud to myself ;-)

Seeing that pink green stalk makes my heart so happy.

Oh beautiful!!!!! Please send some of that weather my way northern Canada it’s 2° here! So cold I haven’t even planted my garden yet three weeks behind schedule🥺😳 it’s a sweet pea flower kind of year here so that’s pretty nice♥️

Your Canna Lilies are looking great. Years ago at a different house where I used to live I had Red Canna Lilies grow up to the kitchen window which attracted hummingbirds. What a delight to be at my kitchen sink working on something and see hummingbirds!

I love basil tea. I kept mine in the freezer, so through the winter, I had tea.

I'm SO glad both trees are doing well, I recall the vid of your visit to your family home and how much it meant to you to carry those trees to your new home. It made me think of the pioneers bringing seed from home across the country/prairies.

I remember that Oak tree video..when you went to those family homes .❤

I’m in Northern California sweet peas are my absolute favorite flower the scent is outrageously delicious smelling!

You could harvest and dry the Tulsi and sell it as tea at your coffee shop or farmers market.

Hey Jess, I remember your visiting your ancestral home so happy to hear that your Oaks are still alive! Looking forward to seeing your cut flower greenhouse in full bloom! 🌺🌸💚💖🤗

Another great tour Jess, and I must you are looking very healthy again, I Praise God for that! Your Cottage Garden looks great from any angle, so it doesn't matter, I'm still happily and lovingly jealous of it. I think I read that the rain is so great because it brings atmospheric nitrogen with it in the drops. Grow Blue Hubbard squash about 20 feet away from the ones you want. The pests like them better than the ones you want, so it's a trap crop. 100% agree with you on the soil issue in the Green Stalks. When I first started my raised beds, I filled them with a bagged organic raised bed mix that was still very course. By the second year, it was way more broken down and only needed a top dressing of an organic compost mix that was at least a year old in the bag.

I loved your oak tree story❤ And I'm growing Barry's Crazy Cherry's for the first time this year🤞 Along with your favorites from Wild Boar Farms....so excited 😁

You know Jess, you could freeze dry all that basil, make basil salt, a perfect product for market or in a nice container a nice gift:))

This year I couldn’t buy soil because we’re having money problems but I make my own compost and even though it wasn’t ready I put my same exact dwarf tomatoes as yours about a week or so after you planted yours and I mixed in old soil from my green stalk from last year and some happy frog grow big fertilizer and they are huge! They maybe 3ft tall they don’t look very dwarfy to me lol. All that bagged soil I bought last year sucked until this year I added my compost to it. Even my peppers I put in pots are huge! The tomatoes I got are tomarrilo dwarf.

I’m a 4 th year container gardener. I have 7 raised 6 foot beds and about 40 different sizes grow bags as our soil is granite and clay. Love learning from your channel. Prayers from northern Arizona. Monsoons are starting but hardly any at my house yet 🤞🤞🤞🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My husband and I attended the 2024 Homestead Festival. We had hoped to meet you, but know this season has been very busy for y’all! We are on our way to Myrtle Beach to meet up with family, and decided to stop by and see Beulah Coffee Roasters. It looks amazing! Not gonna lie, we had hoped to run into you there! Thank you for inspiring us to garden and homestead. Batesburg truly is a gem, and I believe you and Miah will impact it in beautiful ways. Thank you for always shining God’s light! We bless you, until next time.

Great fennel recipe! Sourkraut with fennel, carrot, horseradish, green and purple cabbage and fennel seeds. SO GOOD!

Sweet Jess, Your garden is gorgeous. Like you, I love volunteer plants. Our humidity has been high, and so has our temperatures. Today, 101 degrees, with a heat index 110 degrees. We don't live in AZ, we live in central Oklahoma. Next weekend we'll be installing fence rail in cement in order to hang 40% sun shades to cover my beds. Stay cool, and keep the garden videos coming😊

I had a tiny cucumber yesterday and it was glorious!

I remember the video when you revived those oak trees ❤❤

I am growing dahlia from seeds this year. Purchased seeds from floret. Floret is an incredible resource. So fascinating creating new flowers from seed

You could be getting SO MUCH MORE out of all that space!! It's crazy how little you are growing in those beds!

Thank you so very much again Jess for a video that just makes me feel good and happy. For getting to see your garden tour. I know right now your struggling with your health a bit, yet you have such a glow about you today in this video. Just like true joy and peace. It’s contagious because I feel it too😃♥️🌻🌞🌈

You bring a smile to my face.... your reaction to the silver slicer is the best! Love the garden this year.

🎉🎉 Garden Tour Season!!🎉🎉 It's my favorite! I had my first volunteer plant ever! I felt like I won the lottery!! It was a flower so no free food yet but still a win in my book. Love all of your content. You have brought me a deep love of real food and learning how to grow it and brought my mom along as well. We both thank you. Victory tastes So Good!! ❤❤❤

So happy to see that the oak trees are still keeping on there legacy through the acorns you saved! My dad had made many giant/long "babies" from my grandpa's original pothos. I finally felt comfortable in pkant care to take a cutti g off the original plant.....yes, you heard that right ORIGINAL plant that has been cared for for over 40 years! Ill be 43 in two days and i have memories of him holding me upunder the hanging pot with the many long dangling vines hanging down around me and giggling. I was about four at that point and know he had the plant at least a few years prior. Anyhow, i hope to eventually recreate a beautiful hanging plant plus have it wrap around the ceiling of at least one area in my home. My dad has created multiple plants at this point but I'm just so dang proud that i am going to keep this plant going....and hope my son eventually will also be able to keep it going. There is true magic in these ore memories and i pray that you can recreate two beautiful oak trees for others to enjoy down the road!

Fennel is fantastic in homemade coleslaw. Shred it up with the cabbage. Chef’s kiss!

You are so adorable with your zeal and delight in your garden! Thank you for making me smile. 😊 I love growing herbs and veggies in my own yard too.

Hi Jess, maybe you could talk to Morgan about growing trees when you visit him? I don't know if he actually grows oak trees, but he does grow trees of different kinds. Your cottage garden is completely stunning! I LOVE wild, it's my favorite look for gardens...thank you for taking us on your beautiful garden tour! It is so frustrating that having healthy soil has been a key element of your teaching about good gardening, and the soil companies are cranking out sub-standard soil, basically out of, surprise, greed! Their motto should be, 'When in doubt, go for the bucks!'. Sorry that happened, Jess. Yes, educate people about this! I feel like there is a certain amount of conspiracy around keeping gardening knowledge and gardening as a tool out of the hands of we, the people. Not to sound too paranoid. Bless you, Jess!🌻💕

I wish you could give me a cucumber too. I can almost taste it. I agree that the best food is what you grow and munch on in the garden.

thnx for sharing beautiful lady. I always love seeing what you are growing. I am a believer in the Tulsi plant. It's an amazing plant

Thank you Jess for sharing your garden with us. I loved seeing your Dinner Plate Dahlia. My grandson grows Dahlias for the first t8me this year. I need to find him some Dinner Plate ones. Gorgeous! I remember the video where you went to visit your Grandparents home. I am so happy you are growing a couple of Oak trees from the acorns. That, does bless my heart.❤️🤟✝️🙏🌳

I love your garden tours. I also love leaving volunteers that come up every year. Great video.

Your happy drizzled upon garden is breathtaking. I love holy basil leaves and thin slices of lemon in my drinking water in summer. I am so blessed to have perennial Thai basil too, from a packet of mixed heirloom basil seeds.

Oh my goshh!! I live in N Louisiana in Farmerville about 45 minutes or less from El Dorado, Arkansas ❤ I love watching you so much. I only wish I could truly express how much you have helped me grow and flourish.

Jess it is a joy to see your smile also a joy watching you eat from your garden. Hardly can wait to see your garden in July and August. 🫂 thank you for the walk❤

Wow, your garden is ridiculously amazing! Seriously your garden belongs on the cover of garden magazines! Its beautiful, GOD really has blessed you with a beautiful place . Its stunning truly! I want the same type of garden. I am a chaotic person and i want to have my garden all chaotic and beautiful. It may take me 3 years but i am here for it. Thank you Jessica for inspiring me to build a garden of food and flowers for the bees! I have been studying how to dos and diy's to make a small area look much better. I have a been a sub for about 5 years and you are an insperation and you should be so proud of yourself both you and Sweet miah areboth really amazing people. Hod bless your family. I feellike youboth are the kibd od people who means my husband would be friends with. Thank you both for sharing your family and gardens with us all! ❤❤❤❤

@kathymcmc

20 күн бұрын

Southern Living should book a tour with her.

Looking so lush and green! Thanks for resisting the cucumber's siren call to finish the tour Jess! 😁

Oh how fun! Perfect timing!!

Fennel is fabulous with sausage. I’ll chop it up and throw it in pasta sauce with sausage, onions, garlic and then finish it with pecorino Romano cheese and a splash of cream.

I have lemon basil growing all over my garden. It smells amazing when you walk through it. 🌿🍋

I planted silver slicers this year just from watching you. Can't wait till I'm munching too😊

Love your Oak Tree Story! Beautiful that you have a next generation from them.

High Scent sweet peas - very fragrant!

I am glad you covered the new soil issue. Northern Ohio here and I thought I was messing up.....same issues like you. Thank you Jess. I love your whole set up there.

thats so interesting about new potting soil & ammended soil.