Gramma Rose's Garden Tour Mid July 2020

[@ArGroomer]

Gramma Rose you just bring a smile to my face. Love how you take everything with a grain of salt like the chickens pecking your tomatoes. Envy your cooler weather...

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks so much

[@wildoats96]

I was so glad when I seen the notification pop up while I was watching Jess with Root and Refuge. I have missed your videos. Thanks so much for the tour! Love your videos and your sweet grandma personality. It makes me miss my own grandmothers.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you! That makes me happy.

[@nadinejacobs886]

Love to watch your videos, your gardens are so beautiful. Still in middle of winter here in Australia and impatiently awaiting spring! I have so many things planted or seeds ready which I see in your garden and watching just makes me MORE impatient and excited for spring. While our nights are freezing and frosts are endless our days are warm and sunny ... enough that I already have zinnias, poppies and cosmos volunteering my borage is in flower already and all my bulbs are well up! That’s all just furthering my impatience for spring! So I watch you to get my spring fix and stop myself pacing like an expectant mother!! Thank you so much for your videos they bring happiness to my day! Bless you! Xx

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

That makes me SO happy!

[@EdensApple80]

Here in RI we are having a hot summer! It’s been in the high 80s and 90s. 5-10 degrees higher than normal. I love your garden! ❤️🦋🐛

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you!

[@fareebug8439]

Really lovely. ❤. Hope you are feeling up to sharing your garden this year. I'm going to try a pumpkin archway (with Jack be Littles). Also trying Cherokee Trail of Tears beans, they have beautiful purple stems. Hope this spring is giving you a boost as it is me! I've never heard of Jewels of Opar, thank you. Beautiful and edible!❤

[@literarymary680]

Beautiful! You are so inspiring to me. I hope one day my garden will look half as lush as yours!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

You can do it!

[@lisapieper3598]

Stunning! Love how you plant together and have a casual look!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you!! 😊

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

Rooster 🐓determined 😁

[@lilolmecj]

Lol, I grew up in north central Texas, and after mid May till mid September one never needed a sweater. It was so hot, and humid, and we had no air conditioning. We would so appreciate an afternoon thunderstorm, because even though it would be more humid after, it would be cool for a while. I now live in the Pacific Northwest, have for 27 years. This year we have really only had maybe 7 “hot” days, I think we hit 90 on Monday, but today, Wednesday, I don’t think it got above 75. While that is nice it really slows down the harvest. I have had some green beans, plenty of onions, and mustard and lettuce. I am so impatient for some squash! With great effort I got a few small okra pods, but it is just too cold at night. But my flowers are awesome! And I had so many raspberries that I have used most of my freezer space. They are petering out, but blackberries are coming in. Your garden is lovely. My darn chickens took out my pumpkins, and I should fence them into one area and clip their wings but I am so torn, I like to see them out and foraging, but not in my garden! Would adding calcium solve the tomatillo problem? I must get some for my squash, and the sooner the better.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

There was a time when I grew almost exclusively flowers and would have loved living in the Pacific Northwest. Now, not so much. Even with the oppressive humidity, I love the short winters and long growing season here in the Deep South. I lived in Austin for several years and just smiled when people complained of the humidity. To them, it was humid; to me, it was wonderfully dry.

[@krislange1186]

We tried growing tomatillos one year but gave up. We got plenty of them, but there were small worms that bored into almost each and every fruit. What they didn't get, the Japanese Beetles finished off! My grandmother grew a lot of Balsam. Thanks for the reminder. I would love to grow it again!!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks for sharing

[@lisaburns235]

I love your long tours. We are having crazy mild weather here in the uk. Especially the northeast where I'm at. It's not been above 20°c all week. Intact its been about 17°c all week and overcast. My poor tomatoes don't know if there coming or going with the lack of heat and sunshine.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I'm glad you like the long tours. I have a difficult time making a short one. I hope your tomatoes finally get the sun they need to thrive. Here in the deep south USA, our tomatoes have peaked and are beginning to slow down. I'm already thinking about a fall garden.

[@GrampyCampy]

Beautiful food jungle, the best kind to have, well you do have flowers 💐 mixed in well some are edible too hmmm I see a method to your madness, lol just love your garden it is like eden! 🤗💕❤️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️❤️💕🤗💐🌧😍

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I've always mixed flowers and veggies together. Even when I was primarily a flower gardener when I lived in Memphis, I tucked in herbs and burgundy okra in my front-yard garden. The flowers are pollinator attractors. I had a shady back yard, so my shade garden was a cottage-style garden too.

[@lilolmecj]

Grampy Campy’s Bearcreek Homestead I love the idea of flowers mixed in and I really tried this year, but so far I don’t have much success! I do have a few sunflowers, and a few wildflowers. Maybe next year.

[@GrampyCampy]

Carole Just Carole yep there is always next year! Last year mine wasn’t as good either , but this year I went back to buckets, and what a difference!!!

[@deborahwagner9033]

i love it

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you!

[@markie3394]

Really enjoyed your garden tour and semi-binge watching your other videos as I just found your channel but have to get stuff done in between 😊. What encouragement! Guessing I am younger but am wondering do you have help? Husband and I team up together. Once in a while one of our sons will cut the grass or help with bigger projects but that’s only a couple times in the season. On our own rest of time. Pounded all our t-posts in myself this year a couple at a time too (20). Too difficult for hubs, he has a heart problem. Seeing someone older than me gives me hope and challenges me to keep going. Thank you!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I do hire someone to cut the grass, but otherwise, everything else is done by me. That's why there some wild and unkempt places. I just can't do it all and do anything inside the house too.

[@lisapolinsky309]

Here in the PNW nothing is growing, weeks behind🤦‍♀️

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I'm so sorry to hear that!

[@lisanowakow3688]

Pick the tomatillos up off the ground as soon as they fall.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

The husks are empty.

[@OutdoorsandCountryLiving]

Hello, Gramma Rose's Homestead! What a beautiful garden packed with so many things. We love gardening on our homestead as well and it is a big part of what we do every year. Isn't it amazing to watch the garden plants grow and then harvest all of the produce, knowing you grew it? Keep up the great work of gardening and we can tell that you love it! Thanks for the beautiful tour, we are subscribed!! If you have time and would like to, check out our channel and garden tour video. Keep up the inspiration!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you so much!

[@GrampyCampy]

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[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

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[@GrampyCampy]

Forgot to tell ya tomarrow is my 59th Birthday 🎂 I am climbing 🧗‍♂️ that ladder sliding down the other side now oh boy!

[@lilolmecj]

Regarding the Hollyhocks, they are a biannual, however I have had them bloom the first year. And nobody told them, I had several last 5-6 years.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I had forgotten that.