Join Matt and I as we talk about the successes and fails of this year’s garden endeavors.
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31 Comments
This video was NOT too long for me. Love listening while I put our beef stew together for supper!!!
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Just a little advice on sweet taters plants, deer love them. They ate all the leaves off. My husband did put moth balls around the tater bed & that took care of the deer. Possibly the scent of them. Love the videos. God Bless you both.
I enjoy your Sunday night videos, very comforting! I received your cookbook Friday in the mail. I must say I read it cover to cover and am excited to dive in. I really enjoyed the stories you shared about life in Appalachia. Thank you!❤
Just came to say: WHOO-HOO and Hip Hip Hooray; Tipper's coobook arrived today! Thank you, Tipper!
Have y'all ever thought about getting a rain collection system so that you would have water for your garden if you hit a bad dry spell?
Also, if Matt wants to pull up the flowers, I think it would be really pretty to have some planter boxes hanging from the rail of your porch. You could fill them with flowers and get your flower fix that way. 😊
God bless you and your family. I love you all and all the videos.🙏❤️💯🩷
Y’all are having hot chocolate there and I’m having a grape outshine popsicle here in Florida ❤
I would love to garden but my backyard gets overrun with 3 100 pound dogs 🤷♀️
One year I planted tomatoes in August I live in Chattanooga my daddy teased me so much saying way too late to plant tomatoes Until October when I caught him stealing my tomatoes 😅 I happened to hit the perfect conditions that year. It was so much fun saying nana nana nana
The Japanese technique of burning the wood is called "Shou sugi ban ". It's a gorgeous and unique look.
OMG!! I ❤ed the ENDING!! SO ADORABLE! 😘
Ms Tipper it might be fun to layout a map of your next garden and get the Almanac out and plot your planting days for what you like to grow over the winter months. Then you'll better have an idea of the next years grow.
Tipper, I just finished picking all my green tomatoes today. We have snow moving in on Wednesday. I wish I could send you some. I can't remember ever having this many green tomatoes on the vine this late into Oct.! In fact, I don't ever remember having tomatoes at all this late in Oct. I've left the stems on and wrapped them in paper then put them in boxes in the basement where they will ripen in a week, maybe two. I love your garden talks. They give me ideas on things that I might be able to do in my garden. I didn't have the squash bug but I did have grasshoppers this year that like to have drove me crazy. I even tried your hot pepper mix and they just kept munching on all my beans. That was all they went after. Toward the end I did find something that worked. It was a white clay powder. The bad thing is that it was so late in the season that there was very little time for more blooms to set. As far as this being a long video, I was a little surprised when you said that because it seemed like maybe 10 or 15 minutes had passed. So please, make them as long as you want. I'll be there until the end.
Have a wonderful evening you two,
Jenny
I find youtube homesteaders intimidating because there's such a focus on "massive harvests and hauls" and putting up hundreds of jars. It just feels unrealistically presented. But Tipper when you talk about having to "avert your eyes " to some neglected area- goodness it's so relatable and grounding. It actually makes the bounty you share more inspiring because there's a realistic context. Don't know if that makes but year after year I have such gratitude for how you share.
God bless! Have a great day!❤️
Hi Tipper
I'm finally home and I'm feeling fine I only have e to go to the oncologist once a month for blood work. I've missed your videos but I will catch up. Yes you had a good garden. You got enough food to feed the family and make tomato sandwiches lol. I'm glad Granny is well and the mama's and their children are doing well. So let's get ready for the holidays now . I will be making g your cracker candy for church this week .I get a little tired but I will take one day of a time . God bless you and your family and glad your all safe love patsy ❤
I learned the majority of my canning skills from Tipper; I'm ready now to grow my own veggies, but I have a small yard so I'll choose what I like best: cucumbers, green beans, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and green peppers.
Look forward to you guys talking maybe the corn will do better next year and more rain
Enjoyed the garden talk 🎃👍
Hi Mr Pressley I followed and cooked your recipe for pork chops and gravy that I watched the other day and it was delicious 😂yum yum
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Tipper and Granny and the gals! Have y’all seen the better homes and gardens holiday crafts???? I’m sitting in my car at the doctors and I see patterns granny may want and really fun ways to ‘create’ my 50 years are showing that I get this psyched up for a 12 dollar magazine. It’s really fun. The dementia at home has reached the scary period so I take my beagle Joey from a room we are locked in to my car. I bought lots of winter gear. It’s 74 today and 80 for Halloween 😢 clearly climate has changed. Snow on Halloween made me move to Charleston 10 years ago!! I will send the mag to y’all, it’s fun to look at. I’m headed to my beach for shells and sea glass. I have 30lbs of sea glass 😂 now I will create. Have a blessed day. I hope granny like her forget me not flowers and y’all got the books and window ornament. A little happy in your days since y’all really have brought so much positivity to mine. No one knows what being saved means in my corner of a busy city. All catholic here. I haven’t been to church since a wedding 15 years ago. I pray on my knees morning and night. I’d love to find a community of Christian like minded people. I will keep searching.
Diplomacy is a good thing, give and take, meet people half way, no immature name calling or calling the system rigged if you lose but its not rigged if you win, compromise is the key, sorely lacking from some.
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Have you ever tried "Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew" from Bonide? It is approved for organic gardening. I know with some bugs you need to alternate weekly because the little rascals will get used to something, and I guess learn to like it!
I would love it if you could do a tour walking around your gardens because in my mind, I can't figure out how one garden connects to the other! I'm just such a visual learner, I suppose.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could grow those Popsicles???😊
We love our tractor too! We worked for years without one. It’s so much fun watching the two of you navigate your new journey. It makes us laugh. We sorted our seeds ( this week) and I’ll be sending you some soon. Prayers for you all. I miss the Blue Jays. I can tell when the cat is around you by their screams. We have Stellar Jays here. I told them yesterday I’ve been listening to their family in NC .
Tipper I love listening to you and Matt. In West Australia it get too hot and dry for gardening.
You two are such a joy! Another great video! I finally got the same alarm but it was to keep a bear and ground hogs out of the gardens. Well, the bear came three times but finally the ground hog must have gotten scared off. Next year I will get more and do a better job positioning them. I have to say Matt I wasn’t annoyed with the sound. I would forget it was there and jump a mile when the shits rang and the dog barked. Thankfully the neighbors can’t hear it!
Grow what you know….i like that. I am like you, Tipper. Every year I have to try new varieties of tomatoes. This year the only success was Cherokee purple….all the others were mealy. I thought it was the weather. But all summer long they were not enjoyable. So next year I will do Cherokee and my all time favorite, 4th of July. It is small but it still makes the best sandwich.
I grew pie pumpkins for the first time and they did well, but I had no idea they would take over. I planted bush beans and never saw them until I pulled the pumpkin vines up. I did cushaw squash again this year and I got two really nice ones. And those vines too….mercy! One ended up going the length of the squash patch along the back side of the tomato row and then THROUGH the cattle panel along side the tomatoes!
My flower beds were so neglected this year. My husband said I have to cut back how I plant as I’m not getting any younger! My success was also potatoes in grow bags…FINALLY. Five years of growing in the ground….animals got them. I found stray potatoes in three different beds this year! And in buckets but wow the bags were great. EXCEPT, some critter chewed through the side in a few of them. But I still got potatoes.
So…long winded I am. But I get so much enjoyment watching your family as you garden, cook and just live life. You always inspire me.
Thank you. God bless you all. 🙏❤️
Oh….about the grass….your precious grandsons will want to run in the grass and Grandpa just might need to make a big old sand box….if Binks doesn’t claim it!
Have always had a small garden and fruit trees, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. God is good and has always Blessed me in one way or another! He has provided me with enough to always share. Definitely my peaceful time in a crazy world. I'm getting older too, so my flowers were taking over also, harder to take care of, so started passing them down to children, grandchildren and friends. God Bless you all!
Containerized sweet potatoes are so much easier to deal with than grown in the ground, at least where I live. Maybe it's different if you garden in sandy soil – but for me, you never know where the tubers have gone with SP in the ground. In a container you can find them, and not end up breaking them up. Just my experience.
Butch does exactly the same thing…don’t smile in a picture. 😄
Ya'll not only growing a garden, ya'll growing orangutan grandbabies. They will need a grass area to do orangutan things. The grass will be well worth the effort when those boys are just a bit bigger……… Just thinking about 2 little miniature "Matts" ripping around is going to be a hoot!