Here are the videos mentioned in this video:
Mike Dickson- The Fit Farmer – How to Grow Microgreens- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlx5VqMUdg&t=349s
Growing lettuce in soil bags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXn2t8GLh0&t=10s
Growing in a kiddie pool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnPK4ZsFK0&t=114s
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Your audio in this video is extraordinary! Could I ask what microphone you’re using? This sound is just perfection and I’d like to order whatever you’re using! Keep up the great work!
Love love love your attitude. As a local farmer I spent all spring explaining to people why the food sources were running low and then endless hours teaching scared parents how to feed their children out of their own backyard. Sometimes those of us that spend time calming others during panic, could use the same treatment and your way of thinking does this for me. <3
ea shoots are delicious
I live in central Texas. Last year, one of the things that I planted was butter lettuce. Then I had a snail infestation that devastated my whole garden. Overnight the lush greens I had planted were turned to stems. Come January, I took a look at my garden one day and was shocked to find a beautiful head of butter lettuce that had volunteered. I was stunned! But it was delicious and full of flavour. So, yes, greens can be grown in cooler temperatures, sometimes all by themselves. 🙂
Do you plant two rounds of anything in your growing season?
I appreciate your informative and insightful videos!
Louise Riotte, in her book on companion planting, "Carrots Love Tomatoes," says that icicle radishes planted in the hills of squash (summer, winter, either one) and of cucumbers, will help to keep insects in general away from these two groups, and squash vine borers, in particular. Allow the radishes to grow and to go to seed. Icicle radishes aren't the best for eating, anyway, only Ms. Riotte didn't say that: I'm passing it along from another gardener. Author-gardener Riotte further says to plant nasturtiums among the squashes to repel squash stink bugs and that cigarette ash or other tobacco ash will repel them, too, if placed with the seed [or, I'm presuming, young plant starts] when seeds or starts go into the in-ground beds or containers. Her last defense is to plant "out of the bugs' season" and that fall-planted squashes have almost no insect pest pressure; clearly, that works only if your growing season is long enough.
So glad and grateful for your videos! You do so much to help gardeners on their way. May the Lord bless and keep you and continue to bless the work you do.
I m soooo grateful for this channel!!!!! TY
My favorite mixes is beets and carrots roasted in the oven with some catalina dressing sprinkled on at the end. Also sweet potatoes and granny smith apples mixed with some butter and brown sugar slow roasted in the oven. So yummy.
I'm so grateful that you told everyone about the seed shortage you know that they didn't expect all of this I have a question though how do you find seeds that you know how to been sprayed or been grown around pesticides I have stage 4 cancer missed us and I have to be very careful and I'm looking at growing food so that I can be healthy 100% if you don't mind if you see it could you maybe try to answer it if you can thank you and God bless from my family to yours
this video is almost a year old and is even MORE relevant today. thank you for your wisdom ❤️
I don't know if you've tried it, but IMO collards make even better chips than kale!
For Southern California … in warm weather zucchini grows fast as well ❤
I'm planting Okra for the first time this year to see if we like it. I'd rather "waste" the garden space to plant it. I've been told store-bought Okra tastes way different over homegrown so we're giving it a shot.
Jess your the best!
I know this is a year after this video was made, but I think the future holds many of the same uncertainties. We moved 9/2020 from a major city to a tiny town. We have homesteaded in the past, so have experience, but our current lot is small. I would add meat rabbits to your list. Does are pregnant for 31 days and can have 5-10 (ish) per litter. Young ones can be harvested at 8 weeks. Feed can be weeds and kitchen scraps, but study up on what's okay/not okay.
1 rule I have is that anything on the property has to contribute more than 1 thing. Animals eat excess garden waste while producing food and manure, etc. My chicken run will also be my compost area.
Do you ever have problems with groundhogs, squirrels, or rabbits? What do you do to prevent them from eating your garden?
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Love your videos. You explain everything so well and I can imagine these help gardeners of all levels. I have been gardening for years and I have learned a lot from you. Thanks and blessings to you!
Very well said my friend
I love your videos, thank you for the new knowledge ! You’re awesome Jess ❤️
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Wow! You look so beautiful!