Evening Mini Garden Tour | VLOG

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Hey ya'll, I'm Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
Welcome to a place that feels like home. A small farm with a big family. We hope you'll pull up a chair, grab some coffee and visit awhile.
There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart - to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we've learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you're here.
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[@jessicameyer4135]

“Oh, I threw the pepper. . .” I love it. You make me feel normal. Thank you! I love your channel.

[@manometians]

😂😂😂

[@dirtroaddestiny]

I literally was having a rough morning. Kid was sassy, dog was barkin, chickens were arguing, but I walked out to my garden and played Jess video and now I feel better. It’s going to be a good day!❤

[@karenm5681]

It’s a good day to have a good day.😆Enjoy!

[@shandysgarden]

I'm a first-time chicken owner here recently and I get it!! They do argue! 😂 But then after they go in and the door shuts, it seems they work it out and they chatter about the day as if they are at summer camp, under a blanket fort with a flashlight 😊

[@WeirdMikey]

I’m doing the same thing right now for the same reasons. I hope your day has been better!

[@shandysgarden]

@@brendafaith3291 exactly! Mama bird hadn't had her coffee yet! You got to give a girl a sec😂

[@MissBetsyLu]

​@@shandysgarden beautiful. Blessings everyone everywhere

[@denisemccartney9723]

Hi Jess. Here in New Zealand we're just starting spring planting. After a terrible summer last year of floods and cyclones we are so hopeful of things to come. I can't wait for my first tomato!

[@WildHopeHomestead]

Yesss! It's hard to believe that it could be a hot, dry summer once again but preparing for that nonetheless.

[@sarahross2183]

Just sat down to have breakfast and catch up on your videos to start my day. Thank you for uploading so frequently. It's like getting an unexpected visit from a good friend. Makes the whole day better :)

[@theoneandonly1158]

My sentiments exactly. ❤ 😊

[@debbenelson1219]

I so agree!

[@erikas974]

And I follow all of you in the comments.😊

[@MissBetsyLu]

​​@@erikas974 well!! Me too. Comments are great always. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere and always.

[@coreydavidson3501]

I love how you talk to your animals. It makes me smile.

[@barbarabartlett2804]

Garden tour every day. You do not even have to talk just show lovely growth. Food for my soul.

[@marseeya66]

We just harvested our sweet potatoes and were blessed with 86 lbs out of two 3'x 5' raised beds. We are cleaning up and getting fall crops in the ground. I battle health issues but with the help of my dear husband, we are able to keep our 2500 sq. ft rented garden space growing food from late March to early December here in Ky. Thank you for all your inspiration!

[@evalinawarne1337]

You are very blessed to have a wonderful husband. To help you. BLESSED.🛐🛐🛐✝️🀄

[@youhube100]

So cool! how many plants did you put into those beds for 86lb?

[@marseeya66]

I typically have about 12-14 plants per bed.@@youhube100

[@MissBetsyLu]

Well if you could keep the hard parts, I could take that garden off your hands. Lol. Just a thought. 🤷🤷🤷🥰🤔🥰

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@youhube100 and how big was the bed??? Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@aileenbell6750]

In Tucson, the garden is just revving up. Spring and Fall are our magic time, when we are crazy busy. June and July we pretty much hibernate and say a prayer for the few plants that can survive outside (looking at you, Sweet Potatoes!). I am busy working on my Fall /Winter seedlings and excited to plant things out.

[@amberamodei484]

Avocado...I love her stripey tail. And it made my heart all warm and fuzzy watching the absolute joy she was having being in the garden with you.

[@lindsaymccarty3358]

I am zone 8a North Louisiana. We still have many summer crops growing and transitioning into fall. Top dressing everything. 100s of plants started. Garlic coming in the next week and will plant in October. I have definitely gotten my drive back to get rolling again since the heat has let up some. I seriously love your channel! All of it, the garden, your home, the spiritual side and just life in general. It definitely gives me encouragement and energy. The Lord has shown me things through your channel! ❤

[@MissBetsyLu]

I'm muttering!! I think I want to move to your house!! I'm freezing. Grand Blessings everyone everywhere.

[@MissBetsyLu]

That rose one reminds me of flowering maple, kind of. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere and always.

[@Flanuora]

I’m excited for the small fall garden! I planted seeds with my daughter and the neighbor kids. The older neighbor girl said she wants to have a garden when she grows up. Warmed my heart! A pest has dug up about half the seedlings but we still have enough for a little harvest. Thank you for all you do. You are such an inspiration to me!

[@emilygardner]

I have my first newborn this fall, so I'm doing a "direct sow only" fall garden. Chaos sowing It has been mostly successful! I did buy some pansies from a local nursery too. 😄

[@MissBetsyLu]

Baby newborn what?? For Pete sake, people call their dog and their kids siblings. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@emilygardner]

@@MissBetsyLu what do you mean?

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@emilygardner newborn child, right?? No kidding. People saying their dog or animals are their children and siblings to their kids!! I'm thinking they're crazy here. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@emilygardner]

@@MissBetsyLu haha yes, a child!

[@faithf4988]

I'm able to finally start walking again since my cancer surgery in June...I lost my entire summer garden because I was too sick and it was brutally hot here in Phoenix....luckily, we can garden all year long here....I've slowly been putting my garden together for fall and it's been so therapeutic ...more than ever before....I found myself telling my carrots happy birthday when they sprouted 🤣 I have everything in except for my broccoli and cauliflower....and I need to replant my sugar snap peas because there is a cat from the neighborhood that REALLY likes that garden bed...lol

[@thepadillafamilyhomestead]

I am in an apartment in northern California. We grow in 3 greenstalk towers. I tore out our summer garden the first week of September and reset the soil to get ready for fall. I have my cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, peas, nasturtium, kale, mustard, Collards, Swiss Chard, lettuce, turnips, radishes, bok choy, tatsoi and cilantro all planted out already. I am very excited for the fall / winter garden.

[@battlearmanda]

I'm in my fall garden right now. It's my favorite time of year. It's so glorious to see all the new babies popping up, while still having so much abundance around me. It's wonderful.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Bleck!?! Terrible time of year. I'm still waiting for Summer. Blessings everyone everywhere

[@magnoliakitsune5192]

Dear garden sister. I am a disabled veteran. Have wanted a garden to fresh pick and eat . Never seemed to work out. This year my garden shared a little bit with 4 different people. I know it's not much....but with only 2 achers...its a very nice step.!! Thank you for helping me with my dream.

[@growhealthyourself]

Hey Jess! Thank you for putting your portion out there for the world to enjoy! Your honesty and genuine love is infectious and the world is a better place being able to find you in it! God is so awesome! And in a time when society is trying to convince everyone that there isn't enough space to grow enough food for the people of the earth, it is so refreshing to find someone who has followed the leading of the Spirit to grow such beauty as God has prescribed for us to cure us from so many things!

[@galeharris6696]

Jess, I spent many years not thinking of how lucky I was to be able to be out in the sun all day, every day. I was a landscaper for my "day job", and gardened in the evenings, no problem. THEN, I developed an allergy to the sun, my dermatologist said it was a reaction to my anti-seizure meds, and it looked like lupus on my skin. I have scars all over my arms, back , and upper chest. But the past few years have been better for me for some reason--nothing has changed in the weather here in VT, except it's gotten hotter and sunnier, so it's definitely something adjusting in my body, at the age of 73, after almost 20 years of long sleeves and long pants! Your body may at some point decide the sun is more acceptable, and I most certainly pray for that for you! Until that hopefully happens, you are loving yourself by caring for yourself. I know over 600,000 viewers who are so glad you are, as we care about you too!

[@jessicabrennan1573]

Thank you for taking us on your unplanned garden tour. 😊 It gave me something to smile about and blessed my heart. I'm in an unplanned rest period from gardening this year, but my patio is overflowing with volunteers that I've been snagging so that I have have something! 😂 A career change, planning a wedding, doing worship for church conferences and renovating my house and land in NW FL to sell has taken all my time. I can see God making me walk out the concepts of "done is better than perfect" and "turn your waiting room into a class room". Thank you for sharing your garden with us!

[@BriarHollowFarm]

Your gardens are glowing 💚 I caught myself saying “ugh!” In appreciation over several vignettes 😂 these next two months are my favorite time of year for the garden as a Central Texas gardener - the heat has broken, there’s some rain, and everything that survived the brutal heat is about to put on a swoon-worthy final act 🙌

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I am steeling myself to take out many of the tomatoes so I can refresh the beds with compost and get the salads and brassicas and roots in. Our climate is incredibly mild: I can look out the Golden Gate from where I sit and we won't get even a threat of frost until mid-December and even then it may not frost at all. It's a gardener's paradise. Thanks for teaching me to grow those tomatoes, Jess! You were an island of refuge during the pandemic. 💚💚💚

[@raversmead]

A very random garden is how I would describe my garden every year. It is super fun rummaging around and never quite knowing what you will find, but sometimes I look at others peoples beautifully organised gardens and think it must be nice to know exactly where everything is 😂❤

[@betsy5372]

We are trying to clean up from hurricane idalia. But it is a blessing to go to my little garden and see that all my peppers survived and are loaded.

[@kimosterhoudt9741]

Northern Minnesota has had two cold nights. I pulled a lot of squash, melons, and half my tomatoes . Covered peppers, tomatoes , cucumbers, and my zucchini. The next two weeks look beautiful, lows only in the 50's. Radishes, lettuce, herbs, root veggies are loving it. Time to start my winter gardens....😅....inside hydroponics. 😅 Everyone have a Blessed day!

[@OZARKMEL]

I'm in Arizona....we just yesterday dipped down into the "double digits"...we have been 100 plus for several months. I have just planted my Fall/Winter garden...tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, zucchini and cucumbers. All under shade cloth still as we were 98 yesterday and will continue in the 90's for the next couple weeks. I had to get them in! Hopefully I can keep them alive until cooler weather!

[@cynthiaduquette7423]

Texas here. Too much HOT. Nothing survived. Very rewarding to walk with you through your beautiful garden. Does my heart good. Blessings to you and all who enjoy your family.

[@havefaithinthegardener5939]

Hi Jess, we are in a town called Windsor in Northern Colorado. We are about 2 weeks from our first projected frost and the garden is still going strong! I have canned and preserved all I can and have am setting all the continued harvest on a table next to the road for the neighbors to enjoy. It fills my heart to be able to share with our neighborhood. God Bless!

[@mountainmamashome]

Your garden is serious goal material for me. The raised beds are gorgeous. I'm so sad the garden season is ending, I wish I could just have one more good month without having to worry about frost.

[@rainerounduphomestead8942]

I’m still recovering from foot surgery. We have filled our freezers for me to process later. My husband doesn’t have time to finish harvesting everything so, I’ve offered to all my friends and family to come harvest what they want. They have been enjoying our “pick your own” garden and the food isn’t going to waste 🤠

[@jessicaclark4076]

I cracked up when you threw the carrot for the geese and accidentally threw the pepper too. That was such a "me" thing to do. So relatable 🤣

[@yvettesaxon8572]

Summer is my off season. We’re in Queensland, Australia and today, 21st of September, will be 37° Celsius. Harvested heaps of tomatoes, pumpkins and potatoes so far. Looking forward to melons soonish. The garden took a back seat this year, our goats are close to kidding and baby lambs are doing great. Fencing has been a big energy zapper this year. Every year we get better. 2.5 yrs on our 60 acres. Love your vids ❤

[@michelletyner1900]

Here in Florida , I have plant starts everywhere but reluctant to put them out in the garden because this time last year we had a nasty hurricane that came through to destroy everything. 😢 Thankful for Roots & Refuge who continues to educate and inspire me . God bless y’all

[@adsj596]

The desire to homestead but feeling like there is no way to do it on any kind of grand scale is defeating, because we deal with chronic illness. A-D is the chronic illness warrior and John is the caregiver on top of working a full-time WFH job. The dream of a homestead based on aquaponics with a few egg chickens and still carry our business making handcrafted pet products (cat and dog toys, beds, and cat trees) seems like an overwhelmingly large thing. Here you are having experienced and lived the experience of limitations of activity yet still are able to find a way to homestead. Thank you for being a living example of what we dream to do.

[@emiliasadler7707]

Up potting baby tomatoes!! Waiting for sunflowers to sprout, watching the plum blossoms be pollinated. Just beginning. Loving watching you be where I'll be in 6 months. I'm in southern Australia btw. Xx

[@zacharywatson2829]

Over here in the Valley of the Eternal Sun (Phoenix) we are just getting our fall/winter gardens underway. It's our best growing season because we don't get cold enough to kill lettuces, brassicas, ect. but it's when we start our gardens again after our brutal summers. We take the summer off and consider it our 'winter' season. So we now grow from September through May/June.

[@loribethartist6353]

It’s so comforting and relatable that you show your garden when it’s “wild” ❤. My garden is crazy right now!

[@karenm5681]

Mine is absolutely wild too and I am totally ok with that.

[@dorothyfraser956]

Mine is absolutely wild with a ton to harvest. I'm very overwhelmed but so glad for all it has and will produce. Thanks Jess for all you share!

[@MissBetsyLu]

It is that time of year. Everything left standing is huge! Blessings everyone everywhere

[@loribethartist6353]

@@MissBetsyLu my okra is 8 feet tall!

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@loribethartist6353 go ahead. Rub it in, Meanie. Good morning and grand blessings everyone everywhere..

[@homesteadlove]

I have been slowly letting the garden fade out, I will need to pick sweet potatoes soon. I'm still getting a few strawberries here and there and I'm waiting on 4 watermelons to get to size. I'm starting my indoor seeds in my living pantry for the winter months. No frost here yet thankfully. Hope everyone has a fabulous day! ❤

[@lyndaevans1132]

Living pantry? Please explain... sounds like something I would enjoy!

[@homesteadlove]

🤣 It's a room just off my pantry in my basement where I made space to grow food. Fresh herbs, tea's, and some vegetables.

[@sherriwelsch5009]

I live in the desert of Arizona, we are finally below 100 degrees. I’m just starting. The heat destroyed my entire garden. Praying I can get tomatoes my seeds to germinate

[@familyofblessings]

Thanks for the peace in this storm that is life. ❤️

[@donaldtruster1064]

Mine is a small container garden, with just four tomatoe plants,four bell pepper plants,& my fall garden is several, Dragon Tongue beans! As I have been battling cancer for 2 years now, is all I can handle. But boy does it help with therapy of positive energy to battling & win this war. God has & is my main energy & healer,& I love him so! Keep on living & enjoying your great way of life ,it is so inspiring to me in many ways, God bless! Southwest Missouri! Ozarks

[@WildHeartsHomesteadSC]

I got a cooling vest for my son (he cant sweat and will have seizures if he is out in the sun over like 72/75) I got one for my dad too because he was having heat stroke working construction. He didnt want it because the guys were making fun of him, so now I use it for mowing, milking, gardening in the heat. It is a HUGE game changer. It is like ice packs that you put in a vest to keep you cool. They are from glacier tek and I highly recommend them, if anyone is struggling with the heat.

[@shawnakobelka4483]

Potatoes,onions, tomatoes, corn, and melons are put up. Still have sweet potatoes, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, beans and peppers going in northern Ohio. I’m ready for a break. It’s been a plentiful, rainy summer. Winter is the necessary sleep to make spring and summer so vibrant.

[@susanmeredith5456]

I live about 10 minutes from you. My garden is OUT OF CONTROL! But I love the wildness of it.

[@evquinn2156]

Hi, I’m on the west coast of central Florida and transplanting my tomato seedlings to a larger pot before putting them in five gallon containers on my driveway for my ‘winter garden’. Summers are too hot for veggies and me. It’s took me four summers to realize I can’t grow what I did in my northern garden….how I miss my northern gardens, but I’m adjusting. At 76 I don’t have the energy to do it all and garden vicariously through you. Thanks and blessings for you all.

[@valeriem3644]

After very long and rough day of work, this is exactly what I need ❤

[@glendaoparnico731]

I love the peacefulness the evening brings to the garden, its that time of day I cherish as healing time. It's when the weight of stress lifts and I can take a breath. The fall garden for us is slowly pulling together as we pull out the remains of summer garden. The drought in southern Missouri was hard this season and I am hopeful for a more successful fall. Your garden is soo beautiful in the evening light. It inspires me to do more.

[@MissBetsyLu]

You can do notil potatoes there. Its in one of Ruth Stout's books. On field of weeds and raspberries, put small potatoes under mashed down vegetation without mashing potatoes. That was in June in Connecticut. Also was something in there about planting your spring potatoes in fall because they won't sprout until the right time in spring. Lol. I said that all weird. Blessings everyone everywhere

[@janetbuckley07]

I live on the sunshine coast in South East Queensland Australia. We are in spring buy 4 weeks. We haven't had decent rain for months. People are buying water because tanks are dry. Last week, bush fires have started in beerwah, glasshouse mountains and the gympie area. No one hurt no house lost. We have basically given up on our garden. It's not looking like a good summer here. I love your land, your family and your animals. ❤

[@shill4]

I too love simply gathering dinner from the garden. Yesterday was purple hull peas, okra with tomatoes, and yellow squash with some rice and grilled chicken. We planted cabbage, kale, broccoli and collards yesterday. Fall potatoes are popping up from the soil, as are the turnips, beets, carrots and radishes. Still need to plant spinach, chard, and lettuces. We are harvesting from a second crop of green beans. I also can’t tolerate the heat and I am loving the fall garden more as well.

[@christaverduren690]

"I find any Golden Hour not spent in the garden, a waste." ~Jess Truth!

[@elizabethstewart469]

Spring in Australia starts at the beginning of September. It has been really changeable e.g. we had 32degrees 2 days ago (super hot summer temperatures) and it is cold enough today for winter clothes! Fire season has already started so watering the garden will be my priority this week!

[@sheilaholmquist6648]

It has been a challenging day for me, I had a few of your vlogs to catch up on. I feel such heart peace with you. Thank you for being you and sharing yourself and life. ❤

[@cydney3283]

My green beans are just coming on. The squash and pumpkins are growing well. I have cauliflower and broccoli growing, and the flowers are still looking lovely. Tomatoes are still giving me lots to preserve. BTW I hot packed my Sauce and it didn't separate, I am excited about that.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Just cook it well before jarring (lololol) tomatoes. No separating. Blessings everyone everywhere

[@carollorenzano5411]

I am 76 yrs old and I am in central Florida and will be planting my fall garden this week , I am about 3 weeks behind but I feel that what ever I get is a bonus . I am direct sowing , so hopefully there's enough time for things to grow .

[@karrenbecker1059]

Still growing-both end of summer and fall vegetables . Ending soon: tomatoes and ground cherries and peppers, a few eggplant plants, a few more cukes, red noodle beans, celery, celeriac, and tromboncino squash…still going strong. Also fall plants flowering and getting closer to harvest: red cabbage, onion, carrots, beets, rutabaga, spinach, radishes… more beans, broccoli raab, baby book choy, and patty pan squash. A bay leaf plant that is growing beautifully and of course many herbs…. 🌱 So much joy and food to be had ❤

[@kittyevers8849]

I moved to South Africa from The Netherlands 17 months ago. We are going into spring now but we are still looking for a smallholding to start growing our own food. We also need to be off grid because in SA we have a thing called loadshedding which means power cuts and we have been at level 6 which means 10-12 hours without electricity. You also need to collect your own water because there are regular water restrictions. So we have a lot to think about with buying a farm. I love your garden tours. They are quite relaxing. Maybe one day I can do a garden tour in my own garden.

[@myurbangarden7695]

Here in Texas we have had our first rain 🌧️ in almost 100 days and the temps are in the 80s. So our Fall Garden still feels like spring. A succession planting for fast growing squash, beans, melons and determinant tomatoes Some peppers will still fruit

[@lynhyslop6933]

We had our first frost this week. I spent the night before watering, covering and picking. I still have some green tomatoes that made it through along with brassicas,, celery and root crops in my garden. The weather has since warmed to 70s during the day and 50s at. Night, so I'm. Letting the garden go. I am getting 2 new beds ready for next year and finishing planting my trees. Loving that my garden is producing this late in the season.

[@Tracysop1]

Second year of building the structure of our garden. Almost entirely DIY, but with several physical limitations. I’m in North Texas, so we just got our first break from the 100+, dry weather. My garden was meager this year. I’d be putting it to bed, but I still have a few tenacious plants that survived the heat. Even though they didn’t produce, I don’t have the heart to tear them out. They fought so hard to live. I’m going to putter around doing winter prep around them, and see if they end up giving me something. After our first frost comes, I’ll amend, mulch, and put my raised beds to bed and concentrate on finishing structural improvements for Spring. If all goes well “and the creek don’t rise” we should be ready for Spring with bells on.🙏🏻

[@theaeroponictowerchannel]

I'm growing year-round using aeroponic towers. It has been so lovely having fresh food all winter!!

[@user-lq5et9ti7r]

I only have a very small allotment and still have so many tomatoes coming! Cucumbers didn't do much at first and now, after the plants have been looking dead for weeks, they have so many fruits on! Mad... I also picked some aubergine and kohlrabi and cut off sunflower seedheads as it seems they have been feeding the allotments rat population 🙃 Weather this year is so unpredictable, that every week is to be a new surprise!🌱🌱

[@livmegargle5420]

I’ve just harvested the winter squash, the sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and I’ve started putting the garden to bed for the fall. I need to move some strawberries that have taken over into a new bed I’ve made for them now that it’s cooler. Still have some celery and beets coming into fruition in the garden beds. The celery are all volunteers from last years gone to seed! It’s pouring today, I think summers coming to a close. It would sure be lovely to have a warm greenhouse to carry me through, it’s on the list!

[@shandysgarden]

I finally have chickens of my own and they're currently tearing up my little tiny backyard! I'm going to reset everything soon and start some cold crops. Everything will be buttoned-up beautifully so that I can go to Front Royal here in a couple weeks and completely focus! After that first time HOA experience, who knows what I'm going to be inspired to do!😊❤

[@zannasfoto]

I live in the middle of Sweden 🇸🇪 and have sown my winter crops. First frost is about 2 weeks away if we are unlucky, but more likely 4-5 weeks. I hope to get at least some tiny turnips, and a bit of size on the kale before it freezes. 😊 Lettuce loves the cooler weather, so does the kale and spring onion 😁 I still harvest loads of zucchini and cucumber, the carrots that I sowed on frosen dirt and put snow over in February are amazing. All potatoes are up, cabbages eaten... I got some, but the slugs ate the most. 🙈

[@debiebrumley3104]

just outside of Dallas , 6 weeks with no rain and hot oh my it was the hottest ever. I have all kinds of seeds growing now and love the garden so much. We will have carrots , broccoli , cabbage, squash, pumpkins life is great !!!! thanks for your teaching me so much.

[@sheilamorse2624]

I'm in the thick of transplanting lettuce, kale and finishing up planting the fall/winter garden. It's my favorite time to garden. I do not tolerate the heat well anymore and get the blues in the summer. It's like a breath of fresh air waking up to temperatures dropping and heavy dew on the ground. It's also time to prepare for the winter hush.

[@YarmouthBotanicals]

I'm with you Jess! I think I shed a tear every single time I go out to pick for dinner and then again while eating the most fresh, delicious food. Blessings to all. Still chugging along with tomatoes and peppers, have the brassicas growing and a brand new greenhouse classroom for a winter of experimentation! Thanks Jess.

[@oliviagiles]

It is early early spring and I am in the garden having a blast growing seedlings and composting my no dig gardens

[@robindebacker]

I am in CT zone 7b and enjoying a fall garden for the second year in a row, and it's absolutely my favorite growing season. I didn't plant a second round of cukes, just tore the vines out last week, and was surprised to see you growing some this late. Loving the kale, chard, arugula, and still waiting for my kohlrabi, fennel and bunch onions. Wishing you all the best. Your videos are always inspiring!

[@MissBetsyLu]

Nope!!! No wild-ness allowed in my garden!!!!!! Lololol. It's everything else that's running wild with me!!!!😮😮😮 The precision I have in the garden is the perfect garden for me. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔many grand blessings everyone everywhere

[@arlenedaugherty9442]

In Las Vegas, I am growing brassicas, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe , watermelon, and peppers all in containers and beds. There is just three of us so only growing enough to feed us and pass along a few to friends ad family.

[@theuglyhomestead5455]

This year I started off with getting the garden started but once we got the garden in, I got extremely sick and couldn't even get out of bed. My husband put in an irrigation system to keep the garden watered throughout the summer. I am still sick, but I have been able to harvest and can. This is our first year actually having a large garden and enough harvest to maybe last through most of the winter. We have to limit ourselves so that we don't get sick again. I am glad that you are doing better.

[@originalwoolydragon8387]

I was born & raised in South FL; living in East TN for 40-ish years. Even as a kid, I much preferred cool weather. You will not see me outside in the middle of the day in the summer or I will melt. Menopause has made me even less tolerant of hot weather. Ugh. I'm glad Fall is almost here.

[@serenamckerrow7833]

We are just getting into the throws of setting up our spring garden in Tasmania. Loving every moment of this seasons beauty. Selecting new varieties of tomatoes has finally been done. Now just to plant them out and watch the magic happen

[@ginnysulya9805]

Hey Jess, just planted some root vegetables, spinach and Swiss Chard this afternoon! Getting ready to plant garlic soon! Still harvesting flowers from the cut flower garden! Looking forward to the down time! 😉

[@krystalwhitaker6228]

I am living through your garden. I am a new subscriber and you are my chicken way. I love your story and journey. It has helped me being patient for my garden and chickens and goats. I have never done any of this before so am very nervous but very excited and I can’t wait to sit outside in my fall garden during golden hour. And watching my chickens. Thank you for your advice, talks, and sharing both on garden and chickens and speaking Godly things over us. Have a blessed night.

[@erinmorgan8546]

I’m so very sorry that you have been ill and going through that. I admire your bravery and strength to heal and help others. I’d do anything to help you feel better but I’m thankful such a kind soul has been through similar things as I. You’ve helped me so much in so many ways. I’m currently very ill. I pushed too hard and my body finally was like no way ma’am! sloooooow down. I pray you heal very soon. ❤🙏🏻

[@MissBetsyLu]

Paisley is a fabulous name for a pet!! Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@gardeningwithdiane]

My chaos flower planting is in its full, wild glory right now. I’m waiting on sunflower heads to mature, but the squirrels and finches are telling me they are already good enough to eat. I’m hoping my Brussel sprouts finally come to fruition as well as my watermelon radishes. I planted Tanya’s pink podded beans that I’m waiting to dry for seeds. Jerusalem artichokes are about 10 feet tall, I have no idea what I’m going to do with them all!

[@MarciPrice-cl6eq]

Thank you! This has been my Sabbath year. I've had some volunteers..thank you for bringing us along on your garden journey..

[@SageandStoneHomestead]

We have been cleaning out our high tunnel in preparation for the fall garden. Last year our fall garden got eaten down by mice and pill bugs so I've got preventatives going for that too.

[@weesheart6063]

I am in deep south Mississippi here and my summer garden has pretty much been over since mid July due to the major heat wave this year. So I have been enjoying your garden until I could get my fall garden planted. It is now sown and planted and I am so eager to be back out in the garden on a regular basis. I have to say I am another that never really looked forward to fall until I started planting a fall garden 2 yrs or so ago. Now I look forward to this time of year and a little slower pace in the garden. I just want to say thank you for sharing your lovely space as it really keeps me from being quite so bummed when my summer garden fizzles out. ❤

[@rachelscrazyfarm3969]

I have pulled a bunch of old stuff out. Started planting and still enjoying tomatoes, peppers, and melons. VA 8a here so a bunch of volunteers popping up.. even cucamelons that I never planted last year that decided to surprise us. Lol the chickens LOVE them. My sweet family cow is watching the lettuce grow and waiting for her snacks. 😂

[@kls541]

Glad you asked Jess. I’m finally on my way to living my dream somewhat. While living on a farm is out of our reach we are fortunate enough to buy a large block in the city outskirts. We have just planted 5 standard, and 6 dwarf fruit trees. I have two large vegetable beds that my beautiful hubby had built me. Sprouting in their pots are tomatoes and plenty of pollinators, plus I am excited to be starting a medicinal herb garden inspired by Wills wife. It’s been a long wait and when I’ve felt frustrated I have reminded myself your motto of using your waiting room as a classroom. Your vlogs have got me though a very long waiting room visit. Thank you ❤

[@MissBetsyLu]

🤔🤔🤔🤔 is sizely really a word??? Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@marlaherrington5320]

Your videos are the highlight of my day appreciated you sharing often.

[@minnesotagardener3249]

Thank you beautiful ❤️ we lost 2 significant family members got some rough news about others and my dogs been having seizures since Sunday. Dog epilepsy sux😢. You're lovely videos are a light right now. Thank you.

[@carlaevenson5121]

Minnesota. We are awaiting that first frost. Played a game of “off with their heads” this week trying to get tomatoes and squash to ripen the set fruit. My plants are so prolific right now that I’m sure to cry when the frost does come. My tomatoes are so wild and beautiful this year. So sad to see them go.

[@cherri0228]

Hello sweet friend. You asked where I’m at in my garden. Fall has kissed a few of my tomato plants. I’ve harvested my first ever grown sugar pumpkins for pie in the holidays. With the recent lose of my son. My summer has come to a sad ending. I have not had the energy to process my harvest but I have blessed a lot of neighbors friend and family. With the cooler nights here in New England I ve begun to slowly move indoors. I have a handful of books and my skeins of yarn have been purchased and I’ve decided my winter crochet pattern will be a chevron pattern. But again with the tragic loss of my son to addiction. This Fall and winter season. I will be laying low connecting to a power greater then myself keeping warm filling my home with the wonderful smells of baked goods and planting seeds of faith direction clarity. 🙏Thank you for asking and thank you for being you. ❤️

[@manometians]

In Rhode Island, still have my sweet potatoes in the ground, my second planting of Yukon Gold and Red Pontiac potatoes are growing away, fall plantings of beets, radishes and carrots are under way. Still pulling tomatoes here and there! Did the boys like The Secret Garden? Can’t believe it’s almost been 3 years!

[@OurGreenAcreHomestead]

Our Texas 100+ degree summer streak just ended after months and we got rain last weekend after drought. I have a second wave of cucumbers, beans and tomatoes. Brassica seedlings ready to go out in a week or two. my first real winter garden.

[@mrfixit5404]

I live about an hour north of San Francisco. A lot of coastal influence. Unseasonably cool this year. My tomatoes and cucumbers have started to ripen in the last two weeks. So my summer garden has turned into my fall garden.

[@kimproffitt3419]

I just harvested 90 lbs. of potatoes - what a blessing! I was listening to you talk about what you had going on in October and was so disappointed that you didn't say the Homesteaders of America conference. I was so looking forward to hearing you speak and meet you! I have been watching you for a very long time. I have quite a big garden now. It's kinda like chicken math, once you start, it just keeps growing and growing. lol I do understand just enjoying staying home and hope you have an abundance from your fall garden! I can't wait to see. God Bless you and your family! 🥰

[@Renie-hl8dd9mw8c]

I really enjoyed the early evening walk. Thanks for taking me with you. I live in Georgia 25 miles South of Atlanta. I am growing carrots, lettuce, spinach, beets this fall.

[@brookelynturner5684]

I'm in Silverdale, WA west of Seattle. Zone 8b. We're slowly putting the summer garden to bed. I've cut all the leaves off my tomato plants and crossing my fingers the fruit will blush soon. I've ripped out the sweet peppers, and hope the spicy peppers will ripen. Green beans are being eaten by the deer, and harvesting squash and pumpkins. My fall/winter garden will be all aliums.

[@nomikonrad]

It’s been a really sad season for me. I’ve been trying to have even just a little garden and in the hundred and teens heat of Palm Springs it just haven’t worked. I only managed to get 2 jalapeños and a small handful of the smallest cherry tomatoes. All of my plants have shriveled to dust, despite regular watering. And now I’m in a state of flux because I had to move and the place that I am isn’t a very good environment mentally so now I’m in the process of looking for somewhere else to live. So all the garden I have is watching these beautiful gardens on KZbin. Maybe next year will be better and healthier for my garden and myself. Thank you for sharing your lovely garden with us!

[@Katsimagination21]

My garden is just about finished here in NY 5B , but it’s a perfect time for Fall bulbs and perennials for spring ! I still have some tomatoes on the vine, hope the blush this weekend, it will be unseasonably warm in the high 70s low 80s, I have some small pie pumpkins growing on an arched trellis, and some scarlet runner beans as well, I’ve never grown them before , and I love them ❤ Thank you for hanging out with us 😊

[@ivylady13]

I am moving after almost 40 years of gardening. I have to leave my garden and start all over. Trying to look at it as a fresh start, but it seems exhausting. Going to start small, and get help from my grandkids. Love your videos. You are an inspiration.

[@caitlindorris4333]

I’m used to working a 3400 sq ft in ground garden, but last year I sustained a spinal cord injury. I’m now in a wheelchair full time. The garden looks a lot different now, we’re still working on making adaptations slowly but surely. It definitely comes with a lot of frustrations. But im still working for the harvest.