Welcome back to the garden here at Roots and Refuge farm! Today we are doing the first full garden tour of the 2020 FALL Gardening season. We garden with natural growing practices in Central Arkansas zone 7b.
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a Gardner’s final form lol
Our family just set out on a journey to get healthier physically, mentally, and spiritually. That includes growing our own food. We just planted our very first fall garden today, but I've been watching your channel for about 2 years now. Thanks for your content. If you want a laugh, feel free to pop on over to our channel and watch our journey.
Jess! You can buy a 50 lb bag of whole oats at Tractor Supply for $16- $22 and scatter them on any beds you're not going to plant into over winter and they'll grow in the cool weather and make a thick grassy ground cover but they die at the first hard freeze and flop over and make mulch to protect your soil all winter. Wheat and barley may survive the winter but when I use oats they always die (which is good or you'll be fighting to remove them to plant in spring).
Thank you for all your videos. Do you ever use cover crop through the winter? Maybe if you can do a video on cover crop I would appreciate it. I have clay soil that we joke we grow rock so we have to use raised beds and bring in good soil to build a garden.
Guys look into using Pyrethrin for squash bug and ants and just bugs in general. Reapply every 2 weeks, religiously!
I don’t know flowers as well as vegetables (this is only my first year gardening as well). Are there any flowers that are good to grow in the fall/will survive winter? Do you need any pollinators for a fall garden?
Do you overwinter the pepper plants?
Great info on corn crossing. I never thought about them crossing in the first year. I wasn’t able to really garden this year (I did get some herbs at least) because life was just too crazy. But I have already went through my seed collection and started planning my grow list for next year. Planning on some sweet corn and glass gem corn.
Try to plant amaranth near your squash. It saved my zucchini
Girl! This is AWESOME! You're such an inspiration!
Jess wonderful garden. I grow both green and red Malabar spinach and find they prefer dappled sun. Grow tougher in direct sun. Just a comment so you consider putting them where is shadier next year. LOL also trying Artichoke…Go Brassicas!
How many acres do you have?
Would love to know the name of the sunflowers that were surrounded by your Zinnias, Jess!
Love 3 sisters gardening…curious to other plants that would do something similar…
Have you considered running geothermal tubes to heat your high tunnel? It’s supposed to be super effective and fairly inexpensive to install if you can dig the trenches yourself.
Lol, my Sweet Ambrosia in the South Side 3 Sister came out looking like Glass Gem. My Glass Gem in the Middle 3 Sister looked like Sweet Ambrosia at the top, and the bottom looked like Glass Gem. My Mini Pink Popcorn in the North Side 3 Sister looked like Mini Pink Popcorn.
Thank you, Jess, for touring your garden, teaching us to construct things, and encouraging us in all things gardening. When you mentioned you were going to dry your parsley, I had to share with you the beauty of frozen chopped parsley. After harvest, wash, spin, and chop. Place in a bag and freeze. When you want to use as fresh, just take out what you want, and defrost on the counter. It will taste as good as fresh! It is wonderful as a topping on potatoes, or anything you would garnish with parsley. Blessings on your family and adventures on your homestead!
I wonder if you could overwinter sweet potatoes like regular ones. I have been planting potatoes in the fall for two years now and get a much better harvest early in the summer. Although I am in zone 8b and have relatively mild winters.
What is the name of the yellow cherry tomatoes that are always ruining dinner?
Very nice, informative thanks…
Thats permacultura using they chiken yo clean the space
now i want to visit Kentucky and its beautiful farms!
I am not a gardener, but am watching your vids to maybe learn and start. I have heard in the past that tobacco is a good organic solution for bugs, but I think it may have gotten a little expensive in more recent years. I also don't know if you can put it on everything. Just a thought for your bug problem on your squash. If anyone would like to let me know if that info. was good info l would greatly appreciate it. I know you have to order it, not just cut up cigarettes, because cigs have chemicals in them. Thanks
Bananas grow from corms. You have to cut the whole stalk down (in the tropics) in order to stimulate the plant to fruit from another stalk. I learned that the hard way. Pretty beautiful to see them growing, even for the leaves & looks.
Catching up on months of R&R videos, I love that you are attempting to create some kinda Frankencorn… Spring time is hitting East KY Yay!