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A quick shout out to Mr Matt. You are a treat for us. How much more comfortable you have become in front of the camera. 😊 ❤

@maymay222ify

Жыл бұрын

I agree..he’s hilarious!

@yuvondaseal6736

Жыл бұрын

I do love watching Matt interact with Tipper !! He is so funny. He is hilarious 😅😅. I'm like him ...I love fried green tomatoes....they are so good. Our mountains were COVERED with smoke from Canada. As usual....i love these visits with you. 😊😊 I love the whipowill and the katydids and jar flies. And I've got several owls...screech and hoot.... ❤❤❤❤❤

@janh519

Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video so much! Your chats and laughter great are lots of fun for your viewers. I really hope you get lots of delicious tomatoes from your garden. I have four tomato plants this year! Imagine that! They will give me plenty good tomatoes, I’m hoping! My children don’t like them very much, which is surprising, and our grandsons dong care much for them, either. And I can hardly wait for them to get ripe!

Your Sunday evening videos are always a treat to watch and a great way to end my weekend. Thank you for your hard work on your channel, you are a blessing to many people.

@ednaearp9051

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your garden with us, Y'all sure work hard but I know it's so worth it, Mama and daddy always had a big garden and mama canned every thing she could,

@jerryduckworth7691

Жыл бұрын

Your video’s are so interesting and funny. My memory is not so well as it use to be but something always comes up when I plant it. The best part is when you guy’s sit down to eat that popsicle. Thanks for sharing and pray the garden continues success this year. ❤

I hope the smoke from the wildfires in Canada isn’t making it hard for miss Cindy to breathe. Good meeting you in person yesterday and hope y’all liked y’all’s gifts. #cancer_free #team_miss_cindy #healthy_as_a_horse

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

We loved them 😀 thank you so much!! We loved meeting you 😀

Y’all are such a treat to be able to watch. Really enjoy your channel. Thank Y’all for all y’all teach us and entertainment. Awesome Family. Prayers for Matt’s Mom and Prayers to the Family 🙏🌹

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I can’t believe how big these plants have gotten! I remember when you were sorting seeds in your dining room with Corey! Prayers for Miss Cindy and your family!😊🇨🇦🙏

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

The grow so fast! Thank you Gary 😊

Thank you once again for your videos, when I'm feeling at my saddest y'all always seem to brighten up my day! Sending Love and prayers to you and your family

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoy them and I hope you have a brighter day tomorrow 😊

@normanjefferychester882

Жыл бұрын

God bless Julia with peace and comfort with love care and protection with healing and health when needed in Jesus name, may the good Lord bring joy and happiness to you in Jesus name

You two are just precious!! I can’t wait for the video where Matt is giving you a sobriety test in the back yard - oh, I was really laughing - he is a riot!!! That sunburn brought out the orneriness in him, and I can tell there’s a lot!! Yeah Tipper, be real nice to poor Matt when you turn off the camera - oh Word! And Katie…I can just picture her saying that. This was my favorite video by far! Sending love and blessings to you all, especially to Miss Cindy. ❤ P.S. I think you can find those zip-off pants at Brass Pro Shop - I think that’s where I ordered my husband’s. They are nice - quick dry.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@larlar8580

Жыл бұрын

@@MemoryLord-uv9cf - I know, having someone that makes you laugh is a treasure…and Matt and Tipper definitely have that. They are good people! ❤

I have 25 heirloom tomatoes in the kitchen garden. Main garden has. 25 Bush tomatoes for canning. My two Cherokee Purple (named Tipper & Matt) are doing great! Never grew them before. My Sungold, Juliet, and Amish paste are healthy. I have always grown Brandywine (pink, red, dark, & yellow) will challenge Matt growing beside them to see if he can make a believer outta me this season! Blessings 🌼

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Allison! I hope they all do great 😊

In Ohio, we've had a heavy haze for nearly a week from the fires and have not had rain since May 13th. Today, the skies cleared in the morning as the haze was dispelled by soft breezes and late in the afternoon, it finally rained. My yard, maters and flowers have quite pleased!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you got some rain!!

@tonytherf-mb3dg

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Lansing Michigan, air quality bad from Canada wild fire and no rain for 22 days, BUT today although cool,we got our fresh air back and some rain.

Because of you, Tipper my tomatoes are doing the best they have ever done. I followed your advice and put Epsom salts in the hole and then I mulched everything. Thank you for providing such practical advice.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

i love to see yawll cut up, laughing, smiling and joking around will help you live longer. love yawll, GOD bless.

I love whip-poor-wills! We slept with open windows at my grandmother’s when I was a kid. We fell asleep to their song. Forever they will be dear to me. ❤ this is why I’m addicted to your channel. It brings my sweet childhood memories to me. Thank you. ❤

I LOVED MY PARACHUTE PANTS! I had a black pair. I wore them with my white high-tops, unlaced, of course. I wore my collars flipped up and a bandana tied around it. Such fashion in the 80s! Great memories!

Beautiful! I just love to walk by a garden and smell tomatoes that are growing. Any fancy French perfume can't ever compare. 😊❤❤🙏

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I love it too 😊

Fascinating watching you pruning your tomato plants in the garden, and also your knowledge of the plants, suckers, etc., I didn’t know about any of that. We learn something new every day!! It must be so rewarding to actually grow your own food, and no pesticides used, it is organic. My Father loved botany, and I’ve inherited his love of plants, and fascination with them, but you and your husband are experts, I didn’t know about the things you have talked about and shown in this video. Fascinating!! 🍅😊

I just want you to know that I got my cookbook Saturday and I love the recipes and all the other articles that are in there I'm really going to enjoy using some of the recipes especially the cornbread salad thank you again for a wonderful cookbook

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you Shirley 😊

When Matt said the chickens were flying up it reminded me of my Daddy. He always went to bed early because he had to go to work so early in the mornings. We would all be sitting around talking not thinking about going to bed & Daddy would say “well, you fellers can sit up all night if you want to, but I’m “fixing to fly up.” My grandkids wouldn’t have a clue what that meant this day & time. I love listening to you all talk. It’s like I’ve had a visit back home.

I love the way tomatoes smell! That's something that you don't think about until you don't have a garden. I remember the way the tomatoes and corn smelled in my Granddaddy's garden when I was a kid. Beautiful memories! Thanks so much for the great video, Love from Memphis!

Funny thing about a whippoorwill, a couple years back we had a really loud close one or so we thought that's what it was. I kept listening and finally asked my husband where do they get it's saying whippoorwill when clearly it is not. I finally had to look it up because it just didn't make sense to me. That's when I discovered it was a Chuck-Will's-Widow. I'm 50 years old and never knew there were 2 different ones. Do y'all have both as well? We're from SC. Love Murphy, been to Fields of the Wood many times and love the flea market. Enjoy your videos and pray for your family.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've never heard one here but they may be some 😊

@kimberlyking9947

Жыл бұрын

My husband was talking about the Chuck Wills Widow the other day. He said they were a little bit bigger bird and made the distinct sound "chuck wills widow", and everyone called them Whippoorwills, and he couldnt understand why they did since they made that unique sound just like the Whippoorwills call out their own name. We havent heard either bird here in our part of Kentucky for quite a few years now.

@rg1599

Жыл бұрын

We enjoy them here in Texas. We have both on our place.

I loved being outside mowing grass and weedeating. I enjoy trimming bushes.i had 3 acres in SC and I lived alone so I stayed outside as much as possible I grew old and had to move to Phoenix with my family I miss home.

I LOVE fried green tomatoes! I totally understand why Matt loves them. Good luck with your garden, it looks so wonderful, and all those tomatoes. You and Matt are so cute together, and the look he gave you about the "not Cherokee Purples". Priceless! It's so much fun watching you two just sitting and talking, and laughing together.

I bought a bag of those plastic tomato clips. Today a youth group from a local church came to help me get my yard and gardens in order. They staked all the tomato plants using all the clips and some left over rope from my clothesline plus some tomato cages. They look so nice now.

@CelebratingAppalachia

11 ай бұрын

That is wonderful 😃

Tipper darlin', now I know you are a very sweet and beautiful lady. I know this. But, please try to be kind to poor Matt and plant a whole bed of his favorite cherokee purple and those yellow tomatoes. 🤗 God bless!

I said goodby to my dear mother in law in Feb. We were so thankful for hospice. My heart goes out to you and your family. It is so hard. Praying for strength for you all and praying for Miss Cindy. 💖

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Bless you Wanda!

Sobriety Test on Seed-Plantin' Day. Ha! That made my dogs wonder if I was okay, I was laughing out loud. Delightful! Thanks, kids.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀

I had to laugh out loud at Matt saying you were drunk when you planted your seeds 😆. Thanks for all Tomato advice..

It was so smokey we couldn't go outside w/o getting a sore throat and it was 1100 miles north of us. The wind let up and it rained. Hallelujah! It's been so dry here the hay is very thin and short and not enough of it for the livestock. Praying we get more rain for the 2nd cuttin.

I love watching you 2 interact, working side by side, and you show your love and respect for each other. WOW, the bees like Mat. We had the smoke all week long. I'm on oxygen due to idiopathic fibrosis if my lungs and I sure could tell the pollution of it. I used twice as much portable oxygen than normal Godbus good. He supplies all we need. We are getting life giving rain this afternoon. We are about 3" low just for the month of May. We are definitely being blessed. The farm crops and gardens are soaking it up. We have had a very cool spring also for Indiana. We had 40 degree Temps a week ago and a couple of days this week. It has only gotten up to 70 today. I continue to hold Miss Cindy and your family in prayer. God bless you and yours❤️🙏🙏❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ruth! So glad you are getting that rain 😊

@marylour253

Жыл бұрын

Prayers the smoke passes and your breathing is easy.

You all are such a great couple. I laugh at the things you talk about such as parachute pants. I’m sorry but I can’t envision Matt in them, Tipper I can. I’m growing a bit of several tomatoes. I love Cherokee Purple I also have Beef Steak and others. This year I’m focusing on paste tomatoes for sauces and such. Have a blessed week.❤️

Nothing like eating a tomato off the vine warm from the sun 😋 I agree with Matt a sloppy good sandwich is the BEST!!

As I rewatch this video, your garden has grown so quickly. I can only imagine what it looks like now. Y'all are going to have so much fun and memorable conversations about this year's garden. Blessed 🙏🤗💕

I'm from Canada (Quebec)and we have forest fires going in just about every province! Never seen anything like it! People are saying (jokingly) Canada is on fire. Kinda scary. Praying for a lot of rain.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I hope you get some rain!

Lol Matt cracks me up 😂

I enjoyed this so much! The squirrel story made me laugh, thank you for sharing your popsicle time with us. Thinking of Miss Cindy and your entire family.🙏

I love fried green tomatoes, BLTs, whippoorwills, katydids, cool breezes, rain showers, temperatures in the '50's, cool springs, peppers, trees, squirrels, oooh, '50's in July would be awesome! I've only got ONE tomato plant this year, and I can't wait to get a tomato off that plant!

"Just not fit to eat". Matt ,so true!

I purposely stay out of the sun now, I just had skin cancer removed from my face and I have a huge scar from my side of my nose all the way to my upper lip. With insurance it's costing me over a thousand dollars, ive had to have a couple of weeks off of work and disability only pays a small portion of your wages. I'll never feel comfortable in my own skin since I look like scar face. So no finding love for me 😢. Get a hat, log sleeves and long pants...sun isn't kind. I love watching the two of you...Im envious.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry you’ve had to go through that! My friend Jim had a large place removed from his face to. I will be praying for you!!

Again y’all made me laugh out loud several times. Matt fighting off the 🐝 wasp bees 🐝 was so funny cause it’s so strange how they only attack him. So cute what little Katie said as a child. Love y’all. ❤

I buy a big roll of dog wire, welded wire. Cut lengths 6 feet long, twist the cut ends together, and cut two holes out across from one another, one low one higher up. Just really large tomato cages. When plants get about a foot tall, just place over the plant, and I drive a metal stake to the side to keep it from blowing over. They last for years.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Great tip!

You two are the funniest thing to watch sometimes. And you don't want me to talk about my tomatoes, they've all been stolen and one of my plants have some type of mildrew or something... I'm going to have to pull it and burn the plant so it doesn't spread to others... And then dump the dirt out and sterilize the container I have it planted in and start over with that spot...how depressing! And the other crops have been stolen snd are picked dry. So this weekend I will seal up the garden area and replant...talk about depressing! But by August, I should have plenty to eat, but just don't have anything that even resembles food growing anymore. And Matt, splash about a cup of while vinegar into a tepid bath and sit in it and splash that water over your sunburn, it will help ya. Stay safe guys!

Matt is hilarious!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😊

The end of this video when you’re imitating Katie when she was little is soooo cute!! I can just see her talking to you like that. So cute!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀

Someone send Matt a beekeeper's hat and netting! I'd love to see him sit and do a video wearing one! I use concrete wire and make my own heavy duty tomato cages. They are exceptionally strong. We don't remove suckers, although we've always said that 'this will be the year' that we do. I also let some grow on the ground. My paternal grandfather grew 200 tomato plants on the ground one year and they were giving tomatoes away to anyone who wanted them! I grow Jersey Devil tomatoes, Kanner Hoell (Seed Savers - Decorah), Amish Paste, Delicious (St. Claire Seeds), and various cherry like Principe Borghese, Bumble Bee, Chadwick, and some Pink something-or-another. Plenty of 'yard snacks' that way! I'm in zone 4b.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😊 Thank you! Those tomatoes sound great!

This will be my first year growing Cherokee purple. Maybe there are a couple of them hiding in your volunteer garden to give you a little blessing treat.

Those are nice, little clips! Dad never trimmed them. We tried both ways. I think trimming might bring on a better crop. I miss having the land to garden, but we had to get somewhere cooler, for my health's sake. We're still so blessed. Thank You, LORD, for plants -- especially tomatoes.

"Back door cold front", now that's a keeper ! ❤️

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😊

I have one tomato plant - since it's just me - that's plenty. All this talk about tomatoes reminded me of a prank we pulled on my grandfather, One summer, he had dozens of tomato plants just loaded with green tomatoes, He loved fried green tomatoes but would not have them until he had at least one red one. He moaned about that for days - too impatient for nature to take its course, My mom and I went to the grocery store, bought a basket of tomatoes and stuck them on the plants one night after Pap went to bed,. The next morning Pap checked his garden and couldn't believe the tomatoes ripened that much overnight! We had such a good laugh about it.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

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Y’all are cracking me up at the end of this video. We can so relate! Levi’s, Izod, Balloon Pants, Nikes with either the blue or red swoosh. The 80’s were stylish. LOL Good memories.

I can't believe you already have tomatoes. Good for you!

...a green onion dipped in salt with a Tomato sandwich ...perfect🌻

My favorite tomatoes are the big yellow stripeys.

I have had a long Sunday on zero sleep. Im going to try to watch the whole video, but if i fall asleep to your soothing voices, will let it roll and re-watch tomorrow. Eastern Whippoorwill usually like an immature pine plantations. I used to fall asleep to their song at night in Wilkes County.

We like the early girls for first wipe tomatoes. Better boys good tomato sandwich tomatoes. I am going to try the Cherokee tomato never had one. Sweet 100’s are good cherry tomatoes. I love fried green tomatoes. Can’t believe you don’t like them. Great with ranch dressing on them too. Love your videos! Wish we lived in the country like you do. My husband will be 70 in a few weeks and our gardening has slowed down from years past.

Trimming suckers isn’t the only way to focus the plant’s energy. Pinching off blooms from high concentrations of blossoms on less than sturdy stalks helps the plant parse the energy to produce several nice sized ones instead of many smaller ones.

I like the Celebrity tomatoes, nice and round tomato. I usually stake my tomatoes with cages but, this year I am using a cattle panel and cages.

My Tomatoes have done so well, that I’m having give away a lot to the neighbors 💁🏻‍♀️

@cumberlandquiltchic1

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember in steel magnolias, when shirley McClain had her overalls on and a straw hat and brought bags of tomatoes to everyone at the beauty salon? Lol she plunked em down next to them… she said thst why old women grow tomatoes, to give them away… or something like that. Lol I love sharing vegetables.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

That is wonderful 😊

@normanjefferychester882

Жыл бұрын

​@@CelebratingAppalachia send me some, air mail!

@tomr3422

Жыл бұрын

congradulations on a big harvest, Im down in TX and it has been better then expected with tomatos and pepers- Always give some away but this year I have given many more then normal away., its nice to share.

@janiceford630

Жыл бұрын

I always love the whipper wills and the bob whites my mom loved the jar flies

Thought of Granny today....I went to the mulch pile in my yard and have a whole row of potatoes from skins thrown out. My peppers are scawny too but I have some peppers.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Love that 😀

I camped at the Obed Wild & Scenic River last weekend and and dusk, the whippoorwills fired up, literally in every direction. That was something to hear!

Loved this episode on your tomatoes. If you want more volunteers next year, then take a tomato at the end of the season when your cleaning up the garden and just poke it down into the soil. It will come up as a mass of seedlings in the spring and then you can separate it out into individual plants. Also when one of your of Cherokee Purple gets a sucker, root it and you’ll be able to give Matt more of his favorites. Good to hear you like the Juliette. I have some this year and they are doing great. Unfortunately, I have longer to wait for the results as our growing season here is NH is behind you. I agree with Matt about the messy tomato sandwiches! In the height of the season I have one every day for breakfast. Some nice white bread, mayonnaise and onion salt…HEAVENLY.😇 you guys were so funny today..thanks for making me laugh and realizing that even though we are miles apart, we have so much in common. Sending love and light to you and especially Miss Cindy.

Your tomatoes look wonderful! We never cut the suckers off either. We did always tie them up on stakes or baskets. I can see sitting in a chair and getting tired and sleepy after working all day then working in the garden. Its a wonderful feeling to me. Thanks so much for sharing. Prayers for Miss Cindy!

My tomatoes are doing good because I water them regularly. We have not had rain for Almist 3 weeks here in New Jersey. I always trim off bottom leaves and suckers. I have one that I am rooting. I am using cages as I only have 15 plants. I only have a 1/2 acre lot but still growing peas, onions, potatoes, Swiss chard, yellow squash, zucchini, )6kinds of peppers, cucumbers as I make bread and butter pickles that everyone wants, stringless bush beans., cabbages under netting to keep of the moths. I use the same clips that you use especially on my cukes. Enjoyed your video. You have me eating popsicles too!!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great garden Robert! Thank you 😊

@1ACL

Жыл бұрын

NJ is called the Garden State for a very good reason! The best produce, especially the tomatoes, anywhere. Praying for rain for y'all.

That squirrels a might teched. Bless his heart. Thats what my friend Lib would say. Shes gone now and I miss her southern humor. Now I have you two to make me smile.

I almost cried.. Listening to you porch talk ,reminded me of Lolee Beach ONeal.. When I lived in the Ozarks. It was like she was alive again. I was 18 and she was 55 but we were dear friends . All those conversations on the porch are very dear memories to me. She would explain and talk of the garden ,who is actin A fool. Thank You sigh

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

She sounds so wonderful 😊

Love this video! Makes me think of my dad who passed away in February. He loved growing tomatoes and only planted Better Boys. Staking and tying those huge plants was always all hands on deck!😂 My local farmer’s market has the Cherokee Purples. I just used them in tomato pie a couple of weeks ago and it was so good. Can’t wait to see your harvest!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry you lost him!! Thank you for watching 😀

That visit with you folks was wonderful. I felt like I was there with you.

If you want a good organic fertilizer for your tomatoes and peppers, the next time you go to Menard's get you a 25# bag of "Chicken Poo" fertilizer. You can add it anytime and without having to worry about burning. Menard's is the only big box store that sells it. I got three bags yesterday at $10.99 per bag. I put it around my tomatoes and peppers about every three to four weeks. The NPK is 2-4-3.

Your garden is so lush and beautiful 🥰

I RECEIVED MY COOKBOOK SATURDAY AND OH HOW I LOVE IT! ITS A TREASURE😊 THANK YOU& MR JIM FOR TAKING THE TIME TO PUT IT TOGETHER! I KNOW IT WAS HARD WORK BUT SOO MANY OF US FOLKS ARE ENJOYING IT! HAVE A SAFE BLESSED WEEK!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you 😊

,🙏❤️🙏 Praying for your family. Thank you for sharing.

Grandpop taught me how to make the call of the wipper will by cupping you hands and soft breath through your thumbs.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Love that William 😊

I grow Romas for making sauce and ketchup and pizza sauce. I love, love Cherokee Purple, and I also grow a patio tomato in pots on my patio. I usually plant 25-30 tomato plants, I like Mr. Wyche's, and for cherry tomatos, I like Sungolds.

Tommy toes are great. My mom grew them to use in salads. Lettuce pear slices with a little of Mayo.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

They are so good 😊

Watching Mom's mannerisms - tell me that Corie and Katie don't move just like her - :) My Mom grew tomatoes, cucumbers, mint, and sometimes peppers. She was a natural at gardens and flower growing. She would support her tomatoes with sticks that were part of the bottom of a window shade. (i.e. the stick slid into an opening at the bottom of the widow shade to give support there. She also used long dowel rods. I wish I had paid more attention to her lessons. My daughter says I could kill and artificial plant. 🤣😆

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I know your mom's garden was amazing!

The smoke is here in Muncie Indiana also you all make a real sweet couple setting around relaxing eating your popsicle love to watch you all the purple tomatoes are really good

I'm growing beefsteak, bushsteak, cherry, and roma tomatoes. I have never grown them before, but the plants are loaded with tomatoes. I remove the suckers. I'm not trying to root them because I don't have room for them. I think my mother-in-law said she removed one, stuck it back in the ground, and it was doing good.

I’m with Matt. I love fried green tomatoes.

I'm with Matt, you can't beat a Cherokee Purple tomato sandwich. When God makes a tomato sandwich, that's what he uses too. 😉

Fried green tomatoes with bacon jam! Yummy!! Your garden looks so good! Thanks for sharing!

Your lovely garden gives me hope for ours! North Mississippi here and a new place. The land is just red dirt. Hopefully our attempt at amendment and mulching will help in the future! If I crave tomatoes in the winter, even on a salad, I sometimes just buy a can of diced tomatoes and drain them and use them. Surprising how good they are and close to fresh. Much better than those from the produce dept! Our favorite is Cherokee Purple too! And our tomatoes are doing great! Ate our first two last night! And my nasturtiums are doing lovely and bringing me such joy! I planted several colors and sizes! Thank you! My husband just loves Matt's humor! 😜

I used those same clips this year to help support my snow peas and they worked really well. I believe I will probably use them from now on. I enjoyed the video.😊

I'm with Matt on the fried green tomatoes, I could make myself sick on them. I live with one of my son's who doesn't eat tomatoes at all unless it's in a sause of some kind. When he was about six years old he and his older brother went out to the garden and ate a belly full of ripe tomatoes and of course they had salt on them and Danny got sick from all that salt and tomatoes and threw up. Since that day he has never wanted any fresh tomatoes and I have a garden full of them. I have to many variables to name and I forgot some of the names already, I'm old lol. I do the Florida weave on my plants, I don't have any cattle panels. I have cukes on the hortinova trellis and the snap beans that will need picking tomorrow.

Go ahead and try to grow a few more Cherokee purple tomato plants just to see how they will do. That is amazing that Matt could smell the smoke from fires in Canada. We have had a windy late spring too but I love it! That is hilarious about the crazy squirrel! Makes you wonder what happened to it to make it that way. I really have to pay close attention to the sounds before I can hear the katydids as well. Sometimes I haven’t been able to hear them when others did. I live in Louisiana and we have had cooler temps too and it has been so nice. Those temps y’all had in late July back then were crazy! My late husband used to not let me first silly things I said or did too Tipper. All in fun of course.

I love your videos so much. Love Brasstown!!! Best place ever, to us anyways! We all spent so many summers there in the 80’s and 90’s with the in-laws and our 5 children’s grandparents. Wish they were still with us. You are blessed to live where you live❤

My daughter Hadley gets bit and tormented terribly by bugs. Her pediatrician told me to take bananas out of her diet in the summer and replace it with lots of grapefruits. Interestingly enough she loves grapefruit. Also foods rich in Thiamine are suppose to help when ingested such as beans, lentils and tomatoes. Fresh onions, garlic and Hot pepper are go to foods that will also help. A few other foods I have heard may help include Apple cider vinegar and lemon grass but I have never tried them personally. Good Luck Matt! Hope this cuts down on them pesky bug attacks for you! It did work somewhat for Hadley.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I did not know that 😊

Matt's comments are hilarious today, lol..."crackhead squirrel" "I saw the squirrel wearing an eye patch", gonna put Tipper through a breathalizer, etc...HAHAHAHA....

Tipper you may recall I did an informal 'test' last year with tomatoes. Bought 6, all the same, cultivated for this/our area. I did y'all's approach to 3 and another approach (much, much fussier approach) and w/o a doubt your approach was the winner (LOTS of 🍅). I'm only experienced growing ornamental stuff, not food stuff (wanting to put more emphasis now on the food). Successes/failures have convinced me that 'over mothering' is bad, with almost anything I'm growing. Love y'all and THANK YOU ! 💓 🙌🏼

@CelebratingAppalachia

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Thank you for sharing the results 😀

I have never see Cherokee Purple in the garden centers. I resigned myself to buying seeds for next year. I was excited and surprised to find Cherokee Purple plants at my local farmers market. I grabbed one up and squeezed it in my garden. Can’t wait to try them.

Im very sorry for your loss you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I appreciate what you and your family are teaching myself and other with gardening and about the Appalachian.

@CelebratingAppalachia

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Thank you so much!!

I think it's awesome how you share your ideas and what works for you . Yet you nvr ever imply that your ideas are best and if you don't follow your wrong. You even make a point let ppl know that what they do isn't right or wrong. It's just what ever fits for ppl.

From the moment you said cattle panel, I want one.

I love fried green tomato's!! Even when we go out to eat, if they are on the menu I will be getting some. I got a box of the peanut butter Little Debbies that Matt talked about, and oh man are they ever good! Hope ya'll have a great week ahead. Tell Miss Cindy we are thinking of her and remembering all of you in our prayers. God bless.

I'm looking forward to next year's "Matt Gives Me a Sobriety Test" video, ha-ha! Y'all are the best! God bless!

@CelebratingAppalachia

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😀

The Okree shirt is great!

@CelebratingAppalachia

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Thank you 😊

Thanks for the tip on the tomato clips! You two are getting more entertaining every video! I almost shot cream of chicken soup out my nose when Matt was yanking your chain about the sauce! LOL! So much fun had by all and thanks for sharing it with us!

@CelebratingAppalachia

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😀

I do prune my tomatoes. I have rooted suckers in the past, but this year I have so many I won’t, unless I have a friend who might like them. Root those Cherokee Purples for Matt and put them in the greenhouse like he suggested to extend your tomato season.

I'm trying to picture "preppy Matt" wearing the Izod gator. Lololololi bet it looked nice tho. My husband wore one too from time. 😊

@CelebratingAppalachia

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😊 Wish I had a picture

@geniegoodrow1287

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@@CelebratingAppalachia That would be terrific! I bet though you could find a used one and gift it to him for Christmas. Hahahaha 🤣

My husband uses a product on the farm from Avon called Expedition spray that is a sunblock and bug repellent. He swears by it for ticks. Aloe Vera gel is good for a sunburn. As a child I remember my mother putting vinegar on my sunburn as it was suppose to take the fire out but when she put it on me, it set me on fire. I’ve added those Cream and Sausage tomatoes to next years list that I want to try.

This video was timely for me and much appreciated! On my apartment balcony I have my first ever tomato plant and it’s sort of going crazy! Now I have a greater understanding of what I can trim, etc. Thank you so much! 🍅

I'm from Chicago and deal with grocery stores. You undoubtedly pity me for that experience. I can accept that. I enjoy your presentations because I can learn from others, taking time to consider that I could have been born to your community. It might have been a good experience. In the world of cooking, I copied your heirloom recipe for corn bread. I also noted one of your recipes for biscuits. You're a good teacher. Thanks. Owen Son of Herman