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Check out video by Kirsten Dirksen Channel, "Nebraska Retiree uses Earth Heat to Grow Oranges in Snow". Using geothermal heat & cool air. Amazing possibilities! I use woven "frost cloth" & hoop method to extend fall season into December here in North Texas. My favorite season for growing greens. Thanks for making such beautiful, uplifting videos!
Lucky you! We usually get one early frost night and after that nice weather again, but the tomatoes are done with that. Cucumbers I can't do late either, the nights get too humid and they get powdery mildew.
Good info on the cucumbers, I must remember for next year.
I am a almost sixty year old Mom and Grandmother and I love when you raise your arm up and I see that beautiful sunflower tattoo. Your whole arm is beautiful. I had a peacock once. I have a small butterfly on my ankle. Your gardening and cooking is awesome~!! I have canned 150 quarts of tomatoes this year
Be safe in the heat,and how is the watermelons doing
on tomatoes you don't need the suckers you can use the broken branches or cut a new shoot place in a bucket with a quarter of water place bucket in shade with sparse amount of light in a couple of weeks they'll will root .
I do this. It works great. Make sure roots don't all tangle as they grow. They grow fast. You might want more jars:)
Keep eye on them, your suckers, will get slimy foot. That's what my grandmother called it. Think it's a type of root rot. I have even put a cap full of hydrogen peroxide in the water to try to help keep slimy foot at bay
My kids favorite thing is rooting suckers. Thanks for your time you give.
New subscriber here! How many acres is your farm?
I do this early in the season when removing suckers and once they root in the house, I fill in any space left in the garden.
"How I do it is with lots of room for improvement" ha! I love that SO much. I feel that way more often than not. Hang in there!
I’ve been binge watching your channel. You guys are amazing. I have trouble keeping the grass mowed! LOL
Just remember that there are millions of people in the world that are praying to have your life!
Jess, I have a row of 6 raised beds (4×4 each) that I use to extend the season.. I put flexible pvc in the front and back of each bed and cover with 6 mill plastic and clamp shut. Have gotten fresh produce from them in Dec and Jan.
If you do make a hoop greenhouse over one of your raised beds, then you can lay a plant frost protector blanket over the plants inside. With the plastic over the hoops, you move that raised bed to 1 USDA grow zone higher than yours. With the addition of the lightweight frost protector blanket over the plants in the raised bed, you move the plants to a still higher USDA grow zone.
I'm in Zone 5. With addition of a portable greenhouse or plastic over hoops over the raised bed plus an Agribon Frost protector fabric over the plants inside the greenhouse/ hoops with plastic over, I now have the plants living in Zone 7. Of course with 2 layers of protection, I have reduced the amount of sunshine the plants receive, but they will grow ( slowly).
One thing for everyone to keep in mind when taking tomato cuttings is to be very mindful of if you are taking a cutting from a DETERMINATE plant or from an INDETERMINATE plant. If you take a cutting from a DETERMINATE "mother plant" that has already pushed out blossoms the clone will "KNOW" where it is in its life cycle and will assume that it has already pushed out blossoms and will not grow and produce fruits.
IF YOU WANT TO CLONE A DETERMINATE plant you MUST take the clone off of the plant BEFORE the first blossoms appear.
INDETERMINATE plants can be cloned at any time as long as the shoot you are cloning has not pushed out any blossoms.
I was a bit worried I planted my Brandywines too late but we have long summers and after feeding them with some compost tea and a layer of earthworm compost plus some straw mulch, they are just growing tremendously. I will definitely try collect some seeds from them once they fruit. As a total rookie veggie gardener, I got some seedlings from a nursery after multiple heatwaves killed all my baby plants, but one tray lost its label so I was trying to guess what it was until today, I spotted the most gorgeous green pepper hanging from the one plant and saw many more in different sizes on the other plants!! I actually thought it was a herb but could not identify the smell, so now I know lol. So happy days and included my first pepper in the stirfry tonight
Jess, I just watched this great video…was scrolling down to browse some comments…and found this gem:
Brian Loria
6 months ago
I use vinyl mini blind slats as markers. After removing the string, just cut them into 5" strips and they're ready to go. For ~$5, a whole mini blind gives me several hundred markers.
Love the idea of taking cuttings from you favorite summer varieties and using them as transplants for fall! Thanks!
Jess – Did this work? I'm in Alabama and my growing season is long like yours. I would be very interested to know if this worked and if you used any root hormone on the cuttings? Thanks!
Such a fun video! Thanks!
I'm just now catching this! To help a raised bed not freeze you can put straw bales around them to protect the soil from frost. I love watching you. God bless you.
You are so inspiring!!❤❤❤❤
I'm so new to the YouTube channel thing. I mean I've watched stuff here and there on YouTube for years. But the whole subscribe, like, and channel thing is like a foreign language to me. Lol. So I watched a movie (well part of one, my phone died.) with my grandson on the phone the other night. ( Who knew that you could both watch a movie together, on the phone. ) And he taught me over the phone, how to go to your channel ( He mirrored his screen so I could watch what he was doing, while showing what to do. I can't believe the stuff that he can do. He's so smart. ) and he showed me how to list your videos from new to old, and old to new. It's great. I have been catching up. I have not done much else the last two days except watch your videos. And I must say, I love it. I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much for the encouragement that you so freely give to others. My sister always says " the more you give the more you receive ". And I truly believe that. Good things come to good people. You work hard and people see that. And you deserve good things. I wish you all the best that life has to offer. God bless you.