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50 Comments
MI Gardener has a sale in metal raised beds now.
Love your videos, Thanks for the tour!
I like this short of a garden tour! The super long ones, my adhd brain has to split up. 😉
I appreciate you going out so early today to give us a garden update! I bless you Jess 🙏
I used pine needles as mulch this year in my garden and rolly pollies hate it..
At a farmers market in KC an elder Asian women selling bitter melon told me that in Vietnam farmers will carry with them a bitter melon and munch on small slices and it will keep their body temperature lower. No idea if it’s an old wives tale but Ive thought about trying it.
If you want to make horseradish HOT LIKE HELL add a few drops of white vinegar to grated fresh horseradish. If you want to make MILD add some cream or yogurt. If you hate cumin, dill seeds can replace him.
I did my berries like that last year, I bought 125 plants and now have about 400 strawberry plants!
Hope next garden tour is full of you harvest baskets of fruits and vegetables 🙂
So LUSH!!! Loving watching what you’re doing with it all over at the farmers table!
Bittermelon is medicinal too! You can dehydrate and use as a tea.
I like growing the white Pearl variety
Such a magnificent garden Jess! My garden is minuscule compared to to your beautiful gardens, but I’m feeling your pain in central Cali zone 9B. 109 this week, so my wonderful husband is following suit with Miah and putting up the shade cloths! I’m trying to keep up with the pests and heat so I’ll have food to put up, but struggling with the watering component. Too much water , leaves are yellow, too little leaves they curl, ( especially my prized tomato’s …. Everything from seed. ). Any good advice about watering my tomatoes? I have 3-4 inches of pine mulch on top. 😕🍎🥒🍆❤️😊🪴
Your Miah is amazing! I wish my Tim was young again…..he could help me make an amazing garden! Just need to get rid of the friggin’ groundhog…..he’s devastated my garden this year…..he loves tomato plants…..and almost anything else other than basil which I have a LOT of….critter LOVES all parts of okra plants…..GRRRRR!!!
It's looking beautiful Jess! Look forward to some harvest videos, it's always fun to see the outcome after watching it grow all season! 🌱❤
Looking good and thanks for the baba ganoush recipe on the farmers table ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i absolutely Love your garden!
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?
Where did you get your Barrys Crazy tomatoe seeds> can we have a link plz and ty 🙂
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Omg those Mexican sunflowers are going to be beautiful ❤️ I only discovered them a few years ago and they add so much to the garden. Your garden is so dreamy😊
I LOVE YOUR GARDEN, JUST BEAUTIFUL #NOT A DAY WITHOUT JESUS 🙏
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
I think you could get a couple of chickens to clean the rolley polleys with something like a dog crate…. Remember Justin Rhodes puts some chickens to clean his beds… Anyways, 2 years in a row in those beds may need more workforce hahahaha 😅
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I love watching your videos. I learned so much, just watching
What was the name of the channel for your gardening. I could not find the link you said you'd leave.
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🫠
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.
So you are able to direct sow bush beans in this SC dry/hot weather??
Love the tips & info you provide as you go through your garden. IE: about the chamomile dying back in the heat & what to do with it. 👍🏻
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 .
Enjoyed the garden tour. Thank you ❤
Jess, could you cover on Farmers Table ways to use horseradish…please?
Thanks,
Joe
Such beautiful spaces in your garden! Long growing seasons are such a blessing.
Your abundant garden is simply beautiful!! ❤
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!
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. <3 Thanks for starting your YT after all. You were one of the first people i stumbled onto when i searched growing tomatoes in 2019.. When i plant my first tomatoes, one plant will be dedicated to you. <3
Your garden looks beautiful! I live in a very dry climate in Northern California, near the Oregon border and we can have weeks above 100F. When it’s that hot I have to water some things twice a day. During the summer, because it is so dry here, I water at night so that the plants have plenty of time to rehydrate. I will say, the plants that can withstand our weather are champs! It can be tricky for salad greens, so I’ve turned to unconventional things like Amaranth which not only thrives here but is amazing to look at!
I love your 3 cousins garden
Yes a garden tour was really looking forward to this😊
Hi Jess. Don't you have bugs there? I see you walk around in shorts and flip flops and I'm so envious. I'm in TN and I get bit by spiders, ticks, chiggers and whatever else is luring out there. When I garden I'm long pants tucked into socks and milking boots to keep them off me. Arms are covered too. Never would I be sitting out in the garden drinking tea!!! Maybe I need to move to SC.
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 😂
“Cool off to like 90”.. dear Lord. 😅🥵🥵🥵 Let me never visit SC in the heat of the summer lol. 90s are like death to us up here in WI haha. But we also get -30°F as our lows so that’s really not better lol
Love the pottery mug with in the Dahlias.
Because of you, I let a lot of volunteers grow. I still get Mexican sour gerkins and ground cherries every year ❤️
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 😉
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!
What is called Bermuda grass in your area looks like what we call in WV is crab grass. We can’t seem to kill it.
Do you grow Mullin!?*spelling? I found I in my blackberry bushes. So good for tea
Do you grow Mullin!?*spelling? I found I in my blackberry bushes. So good for tea
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.🎉🫂