My husband and I knew that we were going to move, so we didn't plant the garden. But, the garden decided otherwise, we left our mobile home to a homeless family, and they have volunteer potatoes, tomatillos, butternut squash, and tomatoes. When they came up I told my husband to just let them grow, that someone would make use of them so he kept them weeded up until we loaded up and left.

@silverlineingstar

3 күн бұрын

What a blessing!

@Dee-MuckGirlGardener

3 күн бұрын

Comment of the year! This is what it means to be a follower of The I Am!❤

@pathoward5721

2 күн бұрын

BLESSINGS

@cathykillion6544

2 күн бұрын

Such a sweet blessing ❤

@vbo9872

2 күн бұрын

​@@Dee-MuckGirlGardeneryour comment gives me chills

You made my wife's day today Jess! Thank you so much for the personal greeting video to my Wife Dawn, She was so disappointed when she couldn't attend the Idaho event. Thank you for the blessing❤❤❤❤🎉🎉

I’ve been watching you for YEARS and years and this is my favorite tour ever. THE MAGIC of that ripe maturing paradise in the anticipatory morning fog is palatable. I could almost smell it - and it seemed like time paused and held its breath through the entire vlog. Just wow.

“It’s like a little surprise party I hold for myself!” 😂

I’m a rural San Diego gardener zone 10 and years ago my sweet Hubbs added market lights all across my garden so I could garden at night when the days are too hot. I LOVE night gardening. It’s so peaceful.

I was so excited to harvest my garlic today. I have about 150 bulbs. Making lots of garlic powder in two weeks. Some carrots, radishes, lettuce and onions get picked as we need it. I don’t think our tomatoes will be ready until mid Agustin but they are looking good. The garden gives me such pleasure.

Sunday morning. Hanging out with Jess and Watching Roots and Refuge’s garden tour while making food for our church pot luck today.. while drinking coffee from Beulah Roasting Co. Talk about a blessed morning! ☀️🫶🏽 Hope everyone else is feeling uplifted this morning!

What perfect timing!! I had to force myself out of my own garden to get a break from the heat. And, now, I can sit inside and enjoy a visit with you in your garden instead, Jess! ☺️ As always, thanks so much for sharing it all with us! 💚

I’ve never been so early. As soon as I see Roots and Refuge drop a garden tour, I click! Love your videos 💚

I call thick fog like that "Jurassic Park weather" 😂 can just imagine the dinosaurs rising up out of the fog. My partner calls it "a pea souper"

@tasteofheavenhomestead8553

2 күн бұрын

When my oldest son was little, it was "froggy"!😆

The appearance of curved berms where your local heirlooms are planted is absolutely stunning! 😍💚

Rolly Polies! I grew up with them and when I moved up north they thought I was crazy when I mentioned them. I love them, in small numbers, they bring back wonderful childhood memories! Your garden is getting a warm cozy feeling to it!

Is this your first fully foggy garden tour? I feel like it is!!! 💚🌱🌱🌱

I love hearing the rooster in the background

I love listening to your abundance talk, Jessica. Your cheerfulness and knowledge of what you have growing is quite contagious. :) You have crab grass (that's the grass that sprawls out in a flat radius).

A beautiful garden!! So much work. I love watching your videos. I always tell my husband I’m going to visit with my friend when I watch your videos because that’s how it feels!

Watching this and Denmark VS Germany simultaneously, is my kind of multitasking 😊 Sidenote/afterthought: A really foggy silent morning walk up the entire driveway. Like a slow tv thing, meditating calm. Like a little treat.

Jess, it was so funny when you were in the garden and in the background Whit was trying to get your attention. He’s so sweet!!

Wow! The foliage on your plants in the pepper high tunnel is such a rich dark green!

I appreciate you going out so early today to give us a garden update! I bless you Jess 🙏

I just found a spoon tomato that popped up. I thought I had caught them in time last year to not self seed 😂

Thanks making this Jess im laying in bed in my small apartment its morning and I'm dreaming of the day I can have my own garden like this and I can go out in the morning for a nice walk around to check on everything❤

I just got my first 20'x10'ft greenhouse delivered this week, Ive been gardening for years now so i feel confident in my abilities to keep things going during cold wisconsin winters❄️ and maybe one day ill be doing my own garden tours😊 thanks for posting yours, because this is what motivates me to keep doing what im doing!

Chiffonade, is what you described when you talked about rolling up and slicing the nasturtiums leaves into ribbons. I love that word, and I do that a lot with my basils too when doing salads, it gives a really nice, different texture without getting that heavy bite of flavor. :) Garden is looking so lovely, Jess, and all that low fog in the distance was just lovely.

❤ I never grow enough basil - so versatile! I make tea bags with basil for winter tea when I can’t do fresh. 😊

Yessss love little hidden places in my garden! Thanks for another beautiful tour Jess! We love you 💚

I spy with my little eye a mug of tea near the little dahlias! I set my cup down all over the place and am constantly looking for it, inside and out. Haha! Glad I’m not the only one! :-)

I purchased spoon tomatoes this year from Baker’s Creek, having never heard of them. I have a couple growing in a large pot on the edge of my garden bed. They are doing so well here in coastal NC. I love tomato products, like salsa and sauces, but I don’t like to eat raw tomatoes. However, I ADORE tiny things, so when I saw them, I knew I had to grow them simply for the joy of them. And joy they have indeed brought me.

You talking about your big garden table makes me sing “Crowded Table” by the Highwomen in my head. 💗 🎶

Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful property with us and what you’re growing you always come up with something wonderful to share every week my dear friend I love watching your videos and feeling the love that you sent out to all of us. Thanks so much my sweet friend for another great video

Squeaky food!!! Yesssssss! Ok, so would you be interested in showing us a monthly "here's what I preserved this month" kind of highlight video to give us a real world here's-how-to-make-it-happen canning videos??? Pretty please 🙏 😁 It would help me wrap my mind around what it takes to have a pantry like you have 🥰😍 #goals

Thank you for coming to Idaho ! I was blessed to hear all 3 sessions.

Going on my 5th year of my roots and refuge inspired garden! Love your videos

Maybe next season have the ground cherries at the south ends of the beds where they'll be the most exposed.

Listening intently to how rough dry weather is while living in Colorado….dry is a way of life here!

The way I squealed like a little kid when I saw this video pop up on my feed! 😂🤗

sending you so much love and positivity! You were such a delight to meet at Murry Fest Midwest!

Because of you, I let a lot of volunteers grow. I still get Mexican sour gerkins and ground cherries every year ❤️

Have needed some motivation to get back into the garden after a difficult growing year in the UK - feels great to have you for company! Was surprisingly productive after your last few vids, thank you for the inspiration, as always 💚

@Sky-Child

3 күн бұрын

It's been terrible here in the UK! How can it be simultaneously too hot and dry but also too wet and cold ?! For everything! Jess definitely helps keep spirits up though!

@joannastone6239

2 күн бұрын

​@Sky-Child one of the best gardeners I know has said that this year is one of the worst she's ever known for growing veg, and Jess also said her garden seems slow... I think it may just be one of those years

I loved meeting you today and getting home to a FULL tour was the cherry on top!!! Your second talk today was just what my heart needed to hear. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

@llamamama9781

Күн бұрын

Just returned from the Idaho conference. Went with my gardening bestie and it was her first intro to Jess. She was blown away. It was so exiting to share someone so special with my dear friend. That Conference was fantastic!

Jess could please explain the differences between beans? Which variety are for shelling and or fresh eating?

So LUSH!!! Loving watching what you’re doing with it all over at the farmers table!

I was so excited to find a volunteer plant in my garden this year. Actually, several sunflowers and 2 tomatoes. The reason I am so excited is because I live in zone 5b, southcentral Iowa. And over the last few years our winters have been so extreme. So much so that I have never seen temps as low as they have been. And I have lived here for over 30 years. Really thinking about moving and heading south. These old bones need more warmth. LOL!! Thanks for sharing your foggy morning with us. Reminds of when I lived in Santa Clara, California. Take care, you are looking a little worn down. Don't forget to take time for you. Blessings Jess and everyone!

Wow in the evening that hot. It is amaizing this weather changes. We are in winter here in Oz and today was 26°C sunny. I can not belive it. The other day I have harvested strawberries😮. Pumkins are growing. So Jess you have some you don't plan wait until winter. I am sure your climat is changing too. Love your garden. Hardly can wait for the full blown season garden tour. Thank you getting up early so you can make this video.🎉🫂

What a gorgeous morning, sitting here munching on volunteer cherry tomatoes & wishing for your fog. Your gardens look wonderful, I just finished hanging the last of the garlic up. Doing a lot of herb picking now. Geez u wouldn’t believe what the grasshoppers did to my potatoes. They’re just sticks now. Looks so funny. Oh well time to dig the potatoes I guess. Since this heat hit I’m lazy🫠

Blessings are always welcome for sure. Loved the garden tour, 100 degrees deserves plenty of thanks since we take you from your work. All the best to you and yours.

What a wonderful oasis. You guys have done such a beautiful job ❤

I wonder if you could blend those melons and make ice cubes for cucumber water?

I just had to cook up all my peppers that i froze last year because I needed room for my current peppers. Ive been harvesting them for about 5 weeks now... i just cooked all the peppers, tomatoes etc.. together and now ill freeze small little puck size and have them as needed.... any tips on recipes are soooo welcomed ❤❤😂😂

1:30 Mug in the wild!

I laughed out loud when you talked about wood chips. I’m hauling all my decomposed, full of weeds, wood chips turned dirt out as I’m listening to KZread videos! It’s currently 89f with a real feel of 95f at my house in Utah. I come out and work until I can’t stand it and then go inside and cool off. I’ve been at it since early this morning.

Love Mexican Sunflowers!! I’ve seen so many pollinators on them. Sometimes even humming birds, bees, and butterflies on the same plant

Corn meal sprinkled along the edges of the bed should take care of most pests as well as beer traps here and there.

Hahaha! Your coffee cup in the flower bed! I guess it’s just a gardener thing. When I can find something like my coffee cup, tea glass, scissors, pruners, phone, latest book I’m reading…I go looking in the beds. 😂 In Southeast Texas 9a, it’s so hot here already. My peppers were cooking on the plants so I moved them into the shade. I’m so glad I planted some in pots so they could be moved!

I drove 9 hours to the Modern homesteading Conference with the hope to meet you and I didn't get to. I saw you talking for a bit, but I was not able to connect. I did really enjoy the conference and got to meet some other amazing people I follow. Just wish I could have met you, so you will have to make the trip again sometime 😉

Perfect video to watch on a Saturday! ❤

YES... the Secret Garden was my jam! Love the enclosed magical feeling. I grow in Indiana and it takes a minute to get that vibe; especially with our weird weather patterns this year.

Sitting down with a bowl of pasta & pesto made from my back-step container garden. ☺️

🍓Waiting for the heat to die down before my garden duties-🔥but I can still be in the garden! Happy for the latest tour!!💗🍅🌿

I love spending time with you and your garden is beautiful!💚🙏🏻

I also dream of having a garden party in my garden this year!!!❤️🌱

Garden looks wonderful Jess! I could certainly see myself doing the slow walk through it and enjoying every surprise around each corner. Well done! I smile at the temperatures you call cool - I melt at 32 C (90 F). It's been mid 20 C (77 ish F) and I find that just nice...lol.

I love the planted mug beside the flowers, haha

So beautiful. I live in SW Ontario and we have been having 30 - 35 C temp. over the past couple of weeks, although it has cooled a bit this week. I must say that personally I don't enjoy the the hot humid weather. I have really noticed in the past few years our summer temperatures have risen several degrees. Last winter my brother didn't use his snow blower once. He had to dump out the fuel to put it into storage. I feel that climate change is real and we need politicians that will take notice.

@karencoyle3011

2 күн бұрын

I agree 100 percent.

@tamaramcgrath3327

2 күн бұрын

The only real thing about climate change is that the government is doing it using geoengineering…on purpose to hurt those of us that are self sufficient…..

In dry Australia, we water of evening as it gives the plant time to absorb the water before sun up to evaporate. I find the vegie patch thrives in the heat water it nightly rather than having wet feet in the extreme heat, cooking the roots while having wet feet .

@jsalyersarts

2 күн бұрын

This makes sense to me! I've been doing a lot of research - should I water morning or night? So much conflicting info out there that I'm not sure, but I like the way you explained that!

We have juiced armenian cukes before and they are so good as a cucumber lemonade.

Great tour, lovely gardens in the fog & blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

That lettuce leaf basil 🌱💚😍 I would make a sandwich with tomato, mozzarella and this basil and maybe add chicken and/ or bacon Yum 🤤

Hey Jess, I get the squeaky beans, I feel that way about cheese curds! Taste great but you have to be aware of the squeaky experience! I think every year in the garden is a different experience! Weather, pest pressure and even my mood/health/ schedule will dictate the moments in the garden that I am just enjoying being in it! I am planning the fall garden and I am looking forward to it more than usual this year as it has been a strange Spring/summer so far this year! I hope that you can get the most out of your garden this season! I inter planted a lot more herbs and different tea plants this year so every day is different and exciting! Peace and blessings! 💖

😊❤Thank you Jess for sharing your garden I love seeing it grow I love seeing you provide food for your family and I'm kind of jealous because I'm having trouble this year😢 the heat has been terrible Here in Michigan!! 🤗 Also some exciting news I had my first tomato sandwich summer is finally here when you take a bite of deliciousness 😋🤤!! I hope you get your soon❤

Jess your garden is beautiful & bountiful❣️Always love to see how you use & preserve your bounty!! I just bought a Freeze dryer so looking for peoples favorite herb seasoning recipes

You recently drove through my little town of St George Utah next to Zion National Park so I know you got a little taste of how hot and dry a place can be. Gardening is definitely a challenge here. We have daily temps above 105 and less than 15% humidity. Shade cloth is a must!

Foggy is a good look on your garden! And I love the shade clothe structure. Thanks for really emphasizing cozy spaces and “rooms” in the garden. Thank you so much for coming out to us in the PNW for the Modern Homesteading conference. All of your presentations were lovely. Very excited to get back to my own garden. Hope your weather back home gives you a nice warm hug after Idaho 😂

I have dahlias in a tunnel too!! I direct sowed seed in early March and they have done amazing! Singles, doubles, and lots of surprise colors. And so much more cost effective than tubers! Blessings! 💕💐

@melissaw.9583

3 күн бұрын

I can't wait to try dahlia seeds next year! I'm glad to hear your's are doing great!!

From being owned by many kitties over the years and many vet visits with wounds. Cats have wounds from whatever but the wounds close up very quickly and they are prone to developing infections or abscesses very quickly. My Vet said to not put neosporin on the wound because it will cause the wound to close up too quickly.

Oh Jess! The secret garden was my FAVORITE book and I absolutely LOVED that movie and I love gardening because of it, so you saying that really spoke to me! I also love how you tell us how you cook the food you grow! Thank you for that!

You brought back that west coast dryness 😂

Your garden is looking sooo nice!! Mine is just getting going here in n. Idaho. Yours gives me encouragement!! Thanks!!

My mom always canned cucumbers and made pickles. The wonderful smell of dill!!!

I am in Georgia , it is scorching hot and we need rain badly , but I push on for my beautiful garden , as you know I see , it is a Labor of love

The traditional cup of coffee was missing ❤

Yay! So excited to watch this! 🎉

Those propagated basil that don’t go to seed would be a great item to sell at your farmers market. 👍

I always called fresh green beans, “squeaky beans” because when I was growing up, my Mom only used canned green beans. Those are “squishy beans.” The fresh ones were very different for us. Now I can’t eat the canned ones 😂

It’s a weird garden year clear over in Idaho too. Was cool for a long time then suddenness days of High heat. Hope this means a long nice growing fall weather💚

I love my yard long beans in a hot cast iron skillet with a little chicken fat and sliced garlic...and a dash of salt. Cook till you like them and mmm...hum. It's tasty stuffs. They produce SO dern fast too. My poor Maxibells are getting munched by someone who isn't me this year so it's yard long's to the rescue!

Such beautiful spaces in your garden! Long growing seasons are such a blessing.

That’s nice to know about the stressed tomatoes- we had 6-7” of rain in 3 days and extremely hot weather right after, and about 8 of my 50 tomatoes plants were over 50% wilty! I was worried about disease, but it never spread and they have slowly perked up. Most of the bad plants are now only 25% wilted. I plan to replace the last three that still haven’t perked back up, only because a friend shared some of her nice greenhouse plants with me. It’s my first heirloom-only garden, and I’m wondering if they are more susceptible. My MIL’s non-heirloom tomatoes grown only 20 mins away never had wilt.

Your garden looks so lush and full! Thx for sharing!

Beautiful garden in the dreamy fog! Do you have a dwarf version of tithonia planted in your raised bed? When I grew my plants they got to 8 feet tall! Your in-ground garden is probably my favorite area. We have two orchard rows where I've planted flowers, squash, gourds culinary and medicinal herbs, and wilder edibles like Coyote and Everglades Cherry tomatoes, sculpit, rampion, sea kale etc. It's so fun to wander through the rows, and see what volunteers come up. This year we had tons of larkspur that had reseeded, and it was so lovely :)

Your garden is my dream garden.

Garden tour hooray 🎉🎉

I finally get to start creating my garden this year into next year. I've been waiting so long. Consuming so much info always learning. I'm bursting with creativity and longing. The EMOTIONS are so big.

I love your videos and your bird tattoos ❤

Love the pottery mug with in the Dahlias.

It’s really lovely this year Jess! 👏 👏 👏

I struggle to garden with the heat of summer and 40 degrees Celsius here in Perth Western Australia, shade cloth is a must!

Such a useful garden tour - I LOVE when you explain how you use or cook the stuff you grow. I would love to know more about the best way to use/cook my produce since I grew up eating from a can. I learned how to cook some but when I grew those long beans, I didn't like how they tasted when I cooked them like other green beans. Sometimes even the pan I use makes a huge difference in taste. This was a wonderful tour with your descriptions of using/cooking the produce.I'll give the cook looking long beans another try next year - unless maybe there is still time this year to grow some?

Saw Charles Dowding today! Looking forward to seeing YOU tomorrow. Yippppeeeeee Skipppppeeee. Also, Jeremiah is just as sweet and real in person as he is on screen. Travel safe, drink lots of water and sing over the land as you head to Iowa.

Thank you so much for bringing to my attention of trying to make it. Where are you? Have a little bit of cover to keep things cool. I live in Southern California. My garden just totally dies when it becomes summertime. It’s just too hot. I can grow stuff all winter long, but all the summers are hot here too.