Hey ya’ll, I’m Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
Welcome to a place that feels like home. A small farm with a big family. We hope you’ll pull up a chair, grab some coffee and visit awhile.
There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart – to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we’ve learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you’re here.
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44 Comments
I grew paprika peppers last year to make my own paprika. I now have enough paprika to last me several years. I also grew the Nadapenas and made a batch of salsa that was really great. This year I am growing Nadapenas and Habanadas. Of course I am also growing Bell peppers. I love to snack on them and use for salads and cooking.
I did!!! I was just looking at them today and was so sad! I was like "jalapenos aren't YELLOW!!!" Now I know why!!!!
The curved gardens look great!
I love watching you! I aspire to have a lush garden some day, right now I am just using my classroom (pots) but I still have a small harvest. I just love watching your videos, I learn so much from you!
I can smell rain too😂
I keep my ripe tiny tomatoes in a jar of water in the fridge and they last a couple of weeks without losing their structural integrity.
. I use them to throw in quick pastas or to top a simple salad.
My silver slicers are coming in great. 1st time growing, wonderful. My other cukes, smaller variety, had to be replanted 3x's, finally flowering. Great tour!
I have a ton of questions about your cottage garden. Tell us everything please!
Mine were labelled jalapenos and I got pablanos. No one jalapeno plant out of a whole raised bed of peppers. So disappointing.
First,I love you,❤and you make me love your garden alot❤❤❤congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 job welldone
Sometimes you get food. Sometimes you get information.
Oh those shishito peppers are ready? 🤦🏻♀️ I could have picked mine then?
Jess it does my head in that the difference in what you can grow in Summer is sooo different to us here in Brisbane Australia- just amazing seasons all year round. Great video. Cheers Denise- Australia
I would take those teeny tiny tomatoes and toss with basil, mozzarella balls and EVOO and balsamic vinegar 😋
My melons and cucs are struggling so bad this year! I'm glad to see it's not just me
To be safe I will have some for canning for sauces I plant both heirloom and hybrids. I enjoy the flavor of the heirlooms, but over the past few years they have come out with some hybrids that have a lot of the flavor we enjoy from heirlooms. Most of my heirloom tomatoes have already succumbed to the heat and humidity of southeast Alabama, but the hybrids are still looking pretty good.
You do know that spraying the tomatoes with baking soda mixed in water can keep them healthy for a bit longer? I didn't bother when my heirlooms started to look sad because I already had picked so many tomatoes and froze them whole so I can thaw them all the same day and the peel slides right off and I can hopefully get them all canned the same day, I have a lot of them so it may take two days.
Beautiful garden, definitely growing quite a few things that I’m not. Lol! I’m zone 2 to 3, so it’s a rather short growing season, usually just have potatoes, beans, peas, carrots, lettuce, garlic, dill, and cucumbers in my garden. Raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus, chives, winter onions, and a few apple, plum, and apricot trees for perennials. I’ve tried growing bulb onions the last couple years without much success, I’m surrounded by fields of canola which draws in the flies that like to lay eggs on radishes and bulb onions, the maggots keep on wiping out the bulb onions. 🙈 lol!
My cucumbers are so bitter. This is my first year at it, not sure what im doing wrong! I live in 6b. Any thoughts? Anyone?
I ended up pulling up all my basil plants because their flavor changed. Thankfully I had already started new basil weeks ago to replace them. Won't be long before I have basil tea again. Oh yea, I have even more basil started and coming up for round 3. Succession planting for the win! 😀
How can you tell that a Brad’s Atomic Grape tomato is ripe? Mine are huge but still hard.
I've never committed but I heard about your pill bug trouble.I had this problem and I gave them something else to eat other then my plants.I put two 5 gallon buckets with holes in them buried all but the top so i can throw food scraps in lawn clippings and I put some compost in them.That was supposed to have been a worm casting project it didn't work out but the pill bugs and other insects seem to love it and I don't seem to have a pill bug problem anymore???
Hope you had time to get the tomatoes before the rain started! 😁🍅
Thank you Jess to taking my mind of my toothache. Lovely garden tour. 🎉🎉🎉
I'm curious how's momma and pappa Ts garden doing?❤
Aww get Will to paint that chair..it’s cute ..but add some bright color 🎨
One year I bought green pepper plants and I got hobinaro peppers.
Beautiful garden ..I have leaned plenty this year
I'm a victim of the jalapeño banana pepper mix up….I thought I messed up until this moment
Peppers 🌶️ 🫑 .,are my favorite..all kinds ..
I did cherry tomatoes this year ..and they pretty big 🍅
Oh my gosh!! That happen to me! I ordered purple bell pepper and got banana!! I also from the same guy ordered Thai, Lemon and Holy Basil and every pack was tomatillo's. I wrote an email about the basil's to the supplier, no one responded to my email, but within a week I had new packets of the 3 basil's in my mailbox. 🙂
Look up cool flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler! There are many cut flowers that benefit from a cool period!
Ahhhh peppergate lol. I purchased Jalapenos and actually got bell peppers 😂. The same thing has happened to a ton of people in one of the gardening groups I am in.
I found that using petite /gem marigolds(leaves and flowers) with the basil to make tea taste like fruit loops . My husband does not like tea and will drink the whole thing lol
Make the tea out pf the flowers, I do it all of the time.
Beautiful garden ❤
I love your videos, your videos are my end of the day decompression time. I have to say I bought sweet bananas starts and picked a couple the other day and my husband said they taste like jalapeños.
Showing the plants that are not thriving is so good. It gives me confidence when someone who really knows what they’re doing has the same setbacks and challenges that I do. It funny how you live in my head Jess. When I walk in my garden with my cup of Coffee in the morning and I see something new on my plants you have already addressed the issue and I know how to proceed. Thanks! I owe my successes to your teaching.
Jess.. @roots_and_refuge Another absolutely gorgeous informative garden tour with so much color & goodness.. I love your old rustic metal chair in your first high tunnel..
Enjoy your sweet Malia, while she is with you.. Excited she will get to enjoy the Brad's Atomic Grape Tomatoes, also one my faves.
I'm finally sun🌞 brewing some herb & Dandelion teas, from your inspiration, and totally enjoying them, Warm & chilled.
My garden is very sparse again this year for many reasons, but grateful for the volunteers & my raspberries, although they are coming to an end .
Just sitting out at my picnic table with my Dementia ailing mom , enjoying garden fresh salad, watching my 3 elderly horses in my yard and 4 pairs of Angus cows /calves in my pasture. Makes me want to grab my nice Camera. It's nice to just breathe this fresh evening air and know God is Good, Always… No matter what season of life we are in… Thanks for making my Sunday a lot brighter with your Smile & Cheer! Love you with many Blessings my friend ❤️ 🙌 💐 Deb
It Is a pritty expensive set up to not having it full productive
Love these videos.
I tied tomato’s for years with tomato tie tape like everyone as well as you are using and I was sooooo mad at myself once I ordered a tie tape gun that I did not order one years ago when I seen them and thought that probably a piece of junk , still so angry at myself for not ordering one sooner you have to get one the Amazon ones work well that’s where I got mine saves literally hours of work
What is interesting is that everything you have struggled with this summer, I struggled with in our past summer in Sydney Australia. It was very wet, the cucumbers and melons struggled the whole season – the cucamelons had the best season I've ever had with them though lol This was a great video – thank you!
Yay ! Lovely garden tours, always welcome 🙏
This year my dad gave me one if his pepper plants as I didn't have the time to sow my own as early as we need to here in Sweden.
I asked for a mild pepper, now it's setting fruits, they're small black chilli's and the name is vampire 😂 I have I feeling they might not be very mild 😂
Thank you for being calm and 'normal'. The noise out there is terrifying. You are a calm oasis. Thank you, dear.❤🙏