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Hi Jess. Thank you so much for your dedication to helping all of us to grow our own food. I love your videos. I love your transparency. I love your dedication to helping people grow their own food. You and Maiah and your kids feel like family. Hope that doesn't sound weird. You encourage me on a daily basis as I watch at least one of your videos every day. I am starting a garden of my own for the first time in over 20 years and I'm so very excited. It can be a little overwhelming but I feel like I am so much better equipped because of your videos. Thank you again. I know you could be doing a dozen other things. 🙂
Everytime i move i take cuttings. We are in a rental and I've taken a cutting of the magnificent blue Sprouse
That's fascinating, I live in NH and I've never seen bulk seeds around here. That's so neat!
In our house we call it "having a hard time". We use this phase to explain how we are doing processing something, as well as asking for grace from one another, or even asking for help dealing with whatever it is we are dealing with. It's been important to have a phrase in our home that we can all use to express ourselves even in the heat of those difficult moments, when we are feeling really overwhelmed by our emotions.
Omg that's a great idea. It's like the tiny house on wheel. Now it can be a tiny garden on wheels. We have people in lines for food banks here in AZ. I volunteered for a weekend and I was bother by the amount of frozen prepackaged foods. Some people weren't even able to get fresh produce. The gardener in me cried handing families frozen food. I know that was all the food bank had but I just wanted to bring people to my garden to share food.
I grow with the jeffy pods. They give you a better/ faster result if you cover them in one of those lil greenhouses with the lid for the first week or two.
Spring is when the season changes. What do the calendars knows?
I had great results with my jiffy discs. Started all my tomatoes and herbs this year. I had to make sure each one received enough water to germinate. However once they germinated every plant stayed healthy. I did up pot once they were bigger and separated the ones with extra seedlings. I'll do it again.
I’m actually really looking forward to seeing you start a farm from scratch. I think it would be so educational. I’m starting from scratch with no knowledge an in sure a lot of people are in that boat so it’ll be beautiful to watch someone who knows how to do it start fresh on a property. I definitely see how hard it would be for you and I empathize though.
Hey I worked at a mobile wood-fired sauna co-op. It was legit, with two rooms and plenty of space for quite a few people to get a good sweat in, plus then in the summer we can drive it to a lake (we're in MN so there's plenty around) to cool off between rounds. In the winter it is better to be by a bathroom/shower with indoor plumbing, although the frozen lake is much better…but since we can move it does the trick. You never know what will work 😉
I love the milk crates to retrieve the eggs, very cool.
I just love you two ♡ You genuinely have beautiful souls and make my day. Thank you for sharing.
It always leads to more plantable space .. I love it.
I have a 80' x 45' backyard that has grown from 3 small growing beds to 15 designated grow spaces.
My wife teases me about how much I grow, but enjoys fresh veggies about 10 months per year in a 9b area.
Love your videos. Keep them coming.
The biodegradable peat is great, I normally just lightly water and cover with plastic to create a greenhouse effect. I never let a lot of standing water in the container because it could cause root rot.
Slice the bottom of the netting that surrounds the peat pellets before you hydrate them. They don’t break down so easily.
your husbans wd look even more handsome in over-all
I decided to get a seed starting tray for the first time in years and I left one hole open so I can bottom water the whole tray. It's working! The seedlings have popped up and my husband doesn't have to worry about drowning them when I'm away. He likes it so far. The only thing I hate about it is that the tray is flimsy plastic. I always have to make sure not to move it with only one hand, since I don't want to crack it.
I love that idea for the chicken coop. Lots or air circulation, but animals can't get in it. hugs.
Epsom salt great for Roses ,blood and bone meal.
I sold my house I make cuttings of my Roses and Potted for my move also put my Rose in 5 gallon pots take what you can
your flowers I still regret not taking them.I had a lot lol.
We have the same options at our feed store! We grew almost 1/4 acre of corn last year, the seeds were so cheap!
I interest this content, suggest more kids with in content, some time outdoor activity with kids is so happy
Your videos are great! I tried those pods as a new gardener in years past and I've found they are fantastic for germination, kept on a heat mat and under a dome. However, once sprouted, I've found that the pods in general are pretty challenging to keep appropriately moist, and at least peppers and tomatoes really need to be potted up into nutritional soil pretty soon after sprouting — I've had the most success with putting them into 4 inch pots once they have just established their very first set of leaves, and squash sprouts need to be potted up almost upon sprouting or they stunt. For herbs and such, the pods seem to be a lot more forgiving and can sustain them for some time before potting up. Separating seedlings in the pods is much more difficult than in seed starting mix, and I've had to just clip a few and cry sometimes. In the future I will go with home made seed starters in plugs, it is far easier to separate seedlings and they look a lot healthier early on.
Last spring I started a lot of my seeds in those Jiffy peat expanding pellets, mostly because they were all I could find (pandemic). They actually did very well. Some needed to be put into larger pots of dirt before it was time to go in the ground. I did learn it's best to remove that fabric from around them before planting.
Hi Jess, I just love your enthusiasm & love for the simplest things in life, you bring great joy to me every time I watch, I'm totally addicted to your videos!!! but, I wish I had half the mojo you have, of course I'm 60 now & not so young anymore! lol 😉 I'm a tea lover & wondering if you have a fav tea or juice that you regularly drink that keeps you on board with all you do? thanks!
My friend loves Rose's. He put banana peels on his roses.