Have you seen our new show Wilder Still yet? If you haven’t, head over and sign up for Abundance Plus to see all our episodes – you get a FREE seven-day trial! https://rootsandrefuge.com/yt-wilder-still
Check out our new blog here: https://rootsandrefuge.com
And subscribe to our weekly email list so you’re the first to hear about new blog posts, sticker launches, merch, and special giveaways! (We do monthly giveaways ONLY for our email subscribers!): https://rootsandrefuge.com/signup
Deep South Homestead Pruning Squash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXlQACVpPUQ
Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge
Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/
My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com
My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards
Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smith
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBpcMe9OjXGnjLgPuLGQPw
Email Us: rootsandrefuge@yahoo.com
To drop us a line:
PO Box 4239
Leesville SC 29070
To have a gift sent to our house from our Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/SFA0IZHZRCOZ?ref_=wl_share
______________________________________________________
Want to Support Our Channel?
Shop for our favorite things in our Amazon Storefront- support our channel at no additional cost to you!- https://www.amazon.com/shop/rootsandrefugefarm
Greenstalk Planter:
This is an affiliate link, use the code ROOTS10 to receive $10 off:
http://lddy.no/6xhd
If you would like to financially support our channel and farm, you can shop through our Amazon affiliate link, which will earn us a small commission at no additional cost to you here: https://amzn.to/2NcCBZ4
Also, sometimes I link Amazon Affiliate links in the description. Shopping from these links supports our channel with a small commission without any additional cost to you! So Thank you for using these links!
Have you ever kept a Garden Diary? So you can keep up with when your crop produces? I try to do that with my animals. Especaily, when my Guinea's were laying eggs. It's fun to look back on it.
Lol in winter it gets about 50 degrees in my house
Hi Jess
I noticed Miah used, in another video, a torch to burn holes in white plastic..
What is that tool called and where do I get one. ??
Your videos are helping me so much. I love you guys. Thank you for all your videos.
May is such a lovely month! Not too hot, garden exploding, nothing really ragged yet. LOL My favorite fresh eating cucumber variety is called "National Pickling" and it's a 1929 developed OP variety. Takes ages to get to the dark orange seed saving stage, because it holds well on the vine, rarely bitter even in the heat of South Carolina. (I've literally never gotten around to pickling any…) I've heard it referred to as the pickle cucumber, or pickling cucumber. Might be what the nursery is growing, but I wouldn't chance saving it without confirmation.
Just wanted to also mention this video isn't in the 2020 garden tour play list (it's missing week 5 & 6) .
Hey Jesse, you live in the south so why aren't you growing greasey pole beans? I bought 15 varieties from Sustainable Mountain Agricultural company. heirlooms.org.
Greasey beans are what the Indians traded with the pilgrims when they came here. Also greasey beans lack the toughness gene that commercial beans have. Once you have eaten greasey beans you will never grow blue lake again.
Hey Jess watching an old video and it’s so nice to see all the green!! Makes me excited for spring. I noticed some adorable pots that have plaid painting. Did you make those?
Oh my gosh, your garden is a dream!! I've grown up in TX, just south of DFW in the county below, where it was once a lot more country. We had 8 acres with animals and my parents would let me have a garden area. My grandparents lived on the land too and we had all kinds of fruit trees. We sometimes did a veggie garden but my Pa got cancer and no time then. I use to go to Louisiana and help pick my aunt and uncle's garden in the summers as a kid and it was several acres worth. Now, I live in a duplex with my husband and don't have our own land there's several acres between us and the church behind us. My neighbor is a member and I asked if we could do a garden behind our area. The pastor came and disked us 60 ft of garden. This is my 2nd year and I've learned so much from your page. I found your page last year and it's been so helpful! You do a great job explaining but yet still laid back and country. It's relaxing. Thank you!
Hey Jess, I have been trying to identify that same lettuce. Mine came from a free pack of seeds that came with my GreenStalk. I saved seed from mine as well. Let us know if you identify it!
Our chickens squawk like that when they see a hawk.
Yes Jess, it's a lot of learning to do. You have a spectacular amount of space to put all those beds, etc. I'm in awe. But I have to find a way to cope with challenges, that seem insurmountable to some of my expert gardening friends, though they try to advise. I mull things over and over again, try this or that but mostly I have to adapt to the challenges of wetness in early Spring, clay, inclines that I can barely stand up or walk on and limited Sun and mostly shade if only to be filtered Sun. And I don't have the beds created yet, just one very large "no dig" in Sun challenged landing and a brief raised bed in the Sun. And it's all a climb of twenty steps at least from the car. Everything is a haul to whereever I put in plants or amenities. You've got a wonderful setup, it's hard to imagination you are going to move out of that space to another, you've done so much! And your plants and animals are doing quite well. I don't have any chickens, nor goats and my children are grown and moved away. So all of my desires, I have to make happen or not.
hey, what was that plant you said the hummingbirds like?
I love Bear
You're a rebel like me about what to grow next to other plants. Especially companion panting
Wish I had the space for a high tunnel like yours. That must be so handy
I Had To Laugh Out loud When You Said That When Someone says you can or should never do that….It makes you determined to do that. That is me all day long I'm still laughing..
I love the colorful poles.
I know this was from last year but does anyone know what she did about the ant bed inside her garden? I have some in my tomato patch and I have tried grits, corn meal, a vinegar spray just on the bed. It has not worked. I do have the diatomaceous earth that I have not tried yet but if it doesn't work, is there something else that won't hurt my 'maters?
Not sure if anyone ever answered your question to this old video. I am sure you already figured it out by now. But the lettuce you like looks to me like Black Seeded Simpson.
Love this!
I am sooooo glad I'm watching this almost 1 year old video!!! I'm growing a couple of heirloom yellow brandywines for the first time (started from seed) and one of them has a fasciated blossom.. Had no idea there was a name for that until watching your video. .. Anyway, I noticed it a couple of weeks ago and didn't know what was going on or what to do about it, because it looked like a big flower on the growth point of the plant.. I just left it and have been checking on the plant fairly regularly.. I still think that may have been on or near the tip, but I have a nice sized sucker that I hadn't pinched, so I've just left it as the new main stem… But I'm really glad to see this in your video! Now, I know what it's called to be able to look into it further.. I wasn't having any success googling it before! 😀
How do you walk and hold The video camera or Smart phone at the same time.
Hey, Jess. I was recently told that powdery mildew is actually caused by a lack of water.
Your terrific! A wealth of gardening tips
Bush beans are a great cover crop in the off season. This is an older video, so you've probably figured it out by now.
Pickel cucumbers here in Germany are heirlooms so I hope you got the same as me ❤️ f1 u can’t really save seeds