Reclaiming an Old Garden + Giving November Applause

[@dawnclemens5615]

Poll worker here. You are so welcome and you Rock!

[@lizflores4142]

Failing and feedback are keys to learning. I'm unsure how we got away from this norm, but I'm grateful you acknowledge and continue to repeat it.

[@PacificGardening]

Glad the numbers are proving out the idea. I love having something to either listen to every day, or binge if I miss a couple. Especially this time of the year, there is never enough non-clickbait gardening/growing/farming content.

[@johnrosier1686]

The theme music has started to grow on me. When I hear it, it puts me in a good mood because I look forward to the content that comes after it.

[@soilbellefarm3210]

I love it lol

[@DiveBarSavant]

Amateur Gardener here, Love your channel. Love your content, also, congratulations Kentucky for all of the early voting, It's really amazing! Keep up the great work!

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@LizzAspley]

I can’t believe people hate the theme song?! My husband knows when I watch this because I dance along.

[@sjwestmo]

I dislike it very much and the only thing I can say about it is it sounds like a song sped up and It’s frayed

[@LovingFlowers]

I love it!

[@AlexZettt1]

Loved the theme songs before I knew that it could be hated! 🥰

[@kevinstamper400]

I absolutely Love the theme song!!!!!

[@soilbellefarm3210]

Me too!!!! I replay it. Mt son and I jam to it for a couple of seconds! lol

[@Sampozsik333]

I'm getting alot out of these podcasts Farmer Jesse! I always got a kick out of your witty humor on the classic no till videos so was excited to see you started a daily podcast keep up the great work!

[@alexhallman9127]

North Carolina here - have invasive grasses (common fescue / bermuda / Rhyzomal spreaders) - agree that deep mulching does not solve the problem and can even temporarily worsen. I think its an underrated fact - that it makes it far easier, to remove said invasive grasses (and their entire root population) after a season of good mulching, watering, and compost teas etc. We've had great success following no dig principles and simply pulling it out, in all seasons of replanting (but not commercial scale). Hoping this helps someone - it will show you exactly where to broadfork (as it loves compaction and is a pioneer).

[@JamesVail-u2g]

Your theme song is great. reminds me of a show I watched as a kid called dr. hop.

[@ajb.822]

Ha ! Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the theme music myself (&afraid if u change it I won't like that either, so, not asking u to !), but our foster son, 11, loves it :) ! He also loves your "Hey, Nerds" which btw is hard to catch at times when rewinding to the absolute beginning even, the margin is SO tight... and we just love to hear it, and even replay it :) ! He also loves soccer, so, that's a bonus for him ! He's not exactly into gardening or related, yet, although he begrudgingly says he getting there, after becoming delighted with eating all the vollunteer ground cherries coming ripe this fall. He's homeschooled, so, around when I'm trying to take my cozy lil "me time" coffee break with my favorite YT content, such as NTG stuff :), so, it's nice that he likes these things, whether stuck overhearing them as he's nearby, or - per usual- as he chooses to come sit by me and watch. He does love sports and being outside, but is also at times a little too into Minecraft and gaming in general, incl. as his only ideas of what he wants to do with his life as an adult, short of playing pro soccer. Whatever he ends up pursuing or doing, I just want him to have as rich as possible of an acquaintance with where the basic necessities of life "come from" etc. , and connection to the natural world and not only from a hiking trail or etc. . So, I'm delighted that he likes and defends the/your theme music :). We also love the Dad jokes ( imo they're just cute, fun or funny Farmer Jesse jokes.. ) and the cat. And the content :). He's away with family for a bit, but a big "Hi !" & thanks from him, I'm sure, anyway :) !!

[@ThinkLittleFarm]

wore my first hoodie of the season last night. i felt alive again.

[@h.sinclair]

I'm really enjoying this new format, great work, great effort, really appreciate it. Learned so much from you so far! thanks!

[@t4cchi]

I love the theme song! cant wait to hear the story.

[@MiriamPendleton]

The theme music is fabulous. Nerd on!

[@edeneverywhere27]

I absolutely love this show, it has become part of my after work routine, the episodes are short enough to squeeze in regardless of what is on my plate for the night and are always insightful and entertaining. Keep up the great work Jessie! ps i actually really like the music not sure where the hate is coming from lol. Much love from Wisconsin

[@soilbellefarm3210]

Great question. One I have been pondering for a while! Thanks.

[@richpoints]

Hey Jessie, I'm a peasant farmer trying to get established, hence not a patreon contributor. Being from Kentucky I'm curious what your relationship to Wendell Berry is. After hearing his name a million times I started reading him 8 months ago and his writings are rocking my world. Curious about your relationship is with his lexicon.

[@soilbellefarm3210]

I LOVE THE THEME SONG!! MY SON ALSO;) I think I might have said it enough! lol ok I wont anymore!! lol Maybe. Your content is awesome also! Love how to tell your story!

[@terenceshearer3276]

Loving your show! Top dog!

[@novampires223]

Hi Jesse, hello from Southern Oregon. It has started raining finally, no more watering!

[@MargiPrideaux-md7zn]

Contributing a note to your tree route discussion. I am a community market garden grower in Australia and we may have something to share that is helpful for those of you in the northern hemisphere. Tree routes from eucalyptus trees are the most tenacious beings on the planet. My husband and I have a vineyard as well as the market garden and we have to physically rip a line between the vineyard and a neighbouring eucalyptus plantation, with a tractor and deep ripper, down to a metre EVERY season (sequentially offsetting the rip by 10 metres every other season because the trees are that smart) to overcome the aggresive ingress of euycalpt tree roots into the vineyard area. Eucalyptus trees will generally stretch their roots out two and a half times the height of the tree. So, if you calculate a tree that it's fourty metres high, you can see that's quite a distance to have to overcome. I noticed what one of your commentors said about tree roots being able to go around barriers. We ve discovered that eucalyptus trees will physically go UNDER the barriers and directly up the other side if barriers are any less than a metre deep. We've dug either side and are amazed (and a little in awe) about the 'tree intelligience' in play. I'm sure there are similarly vigorous northern hemisphere trees, so perhaps this depth and distance tip is helpful. When we established our market garden area, we deliberately calculated the 2.5 x distance we need to be away from the existing eucalypts on our farm and set up there. So far, so good. Then with our deciduous fruit tree hedgerow (our major windbreak) we decided to incorporate the trees in absolutely all the soil ammendmemts, fertilising, composting and watering schedule so that they don't feel a need to go looking for anything more. Of course, this is a bit more work, but so far, three years in we're finding it's working. I haven't yet discovered any tree roots from the fruit trees in the garden beds that are two metres away. I hope this Antipedian perspective helps a little. PS: while glirious fruit, cherries are banned from our property. In a past garden we discovered them suckering 10 metres away from the parent!

[@davidmgilbreath]

Love it!!! ❤

[@dunawam]

Curious if you ever tried the clam tube harvesting parsnips. Them clam diggers at the beach seem to be enjoying it.

[@dwightyoder4883]

Here on the northern Gulf Coast we have drought too. But because I am maximally mulched up I have had to use only small amounts of irrigation. Our soil has no clay. Half silt, half sand. Doesn't hold nutrients well. So I have discovered that, as long as I have a water source, growing has actually become easier because our usual torrential rains don't deplete all the nutrients every other day.

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@lksf9820]

I've always pondered if you're neuro divergent, wondered what you thought of that? Enjoying the vids, all the best 🙂

[@billyhorton3570]

Loved your book, videos, and good idea on the daily podcast but I figured that since your video description stated November flowers but I heard mostly off topic, side issues and NOTHING about planting flowers in November. I watched a couple of your daily videos but they seemed the same way to me.

[@notillgrowers]

Funny enough it never occurred to me that anyone would assume it was about flowers. Giving something its flowers is a phrase meaning to give it praise. Oddly enough this time it was not one of my puns! Sorry about that

[@billyhorton3570]

@notillgrowers did you change the words in the title to the video from flowers to applause? I coulda swore I seen different....

[@calebfast8088]

5:44 mentioning farm franchises again, I just thought I'd say that I am following a company that essentially does this and I'm emulating them as best I can.

[@stuckinthemudgarden7726]

Cover crop question I planted winter rye hairy vetch and mustard on September 3 . The mustard is starting to flower I don’t want it to go to seed. I want to mow it but also don’t want to damage the vetch what would you recommend just string trimming the top off . I have some cold nights coming up 28 . A bed that I just put mustard in died a couple weeks ago but the rye and vetch are some how protecting it . I struggle every winter with winter kill cover crops last year it was peas and oats that didn’t die. I am in zone 5b upstate NY

[@stevehatcher7700]

If the mustard is just starting to flower you may just be in the clear. It may soon get too cold for flowering to finish, then seed development, and then seed maturity. You might get hard freezes before the seeds are viable. Maybe. String trimming the mustard tops should cut down on 80%-90% of seed production if your worried it won't get cold enough, soon enough. Worst case scenario, mustard seed as a weed problem is a pretty easy weed to manage

[@stuckinthemudgarden7726]

@ thanks

[@jenniferrastley7337]

I am recovering a garden that has bind weed. Recommendations for getting rid of it. I currently have 6 -8 inches of hay burying the entire garden. The bales are 2 year old . I was gonna let it get wet a few times then cover with ag plastic. I am 3b/4a. Canadian border of NY. thanks

[@johnsix1749]

I have a bad case in my flower bed. I take the time to unwrap the bind weed and then I twist all of them into a "ponytail" and lay it away from the plant then paint it with weed killer on a paint brush. This has worked really well with the bindweed coming up in my day Liliies and Blue Aster.

[@goldstandard3714]

Laid out my best garden in June. An American flag with 30" rows. 32'-6" X 62'-8" Degrassed and rototilled the red stripes and the blue field. Also fertilized and lime per LSU Left white stripes mowed short, watered every night for a week, tarped for 3 months. It has been exposed all October while I planted greens and roots for the Fall. Hoping to have red and white clover blooming on July 04, 2026 for our 250th anniversary and yes, I voted accordingly. The white stripe are my walking paths for now. Not a single weed came back after a dry month of October. Planning to wood chip during the month of November where no dirt is exposed. Wish me luck. As a test, I dragged the tarp to a new spot that has only Bermuda grass. This time zero prep, short of a short mow and a week of watering. Will pull that tarp on April 01, 2025 to plant Alfalfa. Wish me luck

[@Edibleacreshomesteading]

Fingers crossed!❤

[@abysalheat]

Zone 6B coastal CT backyard gardener here, first year appropriately trying to grow garlic. I planted early October and this warm weather has made it to where there is already 6" of green growth above soil. I'm scared of having too much growth before the frost hits and i just keep piling the leaves higher and higher. Is my concern unfounded, am I going about this the right way, how much growth before frost is too much?

[@abydosianchulac2]

What on earth are people saying about the theme song? It's nothing ear-catching but it's not that ba-...oh, hold on a sec... _plays back at 1.25x and 1.5x speed_ People complaining are speed running these podcasts, aren't they?

[@janew5351]

Has anyone found a garlic planting tool, that warants the cost for once a year planting? My back gets serious damage each year with garlic planting!

[@margezubler5020]

How many cloves are you planting?

[@janew5351]

@margezubler5020 I started with 100 but I will plant more when my senior Plus body recovers

[@Fignatics]

Daily 5:15 😅

[@kevinstamper400]

Did you vote Trump??? I did!!! Love the Show!!!! Excited to learn from you for many more years!!!

[@whydoyouwantmynamegoogle396]

The people who hate the theme song are objectively wrong

[@williamcurry185]

In reference to water issues everyone is likely to face, has anyone tried the atmospheric water generators yet? I have seen bold claims about the volume generated and the efficiency of different models to the point it could be run off of solar. Water out of thin air would seem like a solution if it works.

[@kylenmaple4668]

It’s a dehumidifier. They suck

[@williamcurry185]

@ What kind did you get?

[@kylenmaple4668]

@ I don’t have one, it’s just like common sense. Dehumidifier are notoriously inefficient and energy intensive

[@williamcurry185]

@@kylenmaple4668 Thanks for your help.

[@Power_Prawnstar]

Three things for an island. 1. A potato 2. Playboy 1987 vol 12. The big hair edition. 3. A box of cheese Kransky. Sorted, grow the Kranksy and the porn, eat the potato.

[@Blynn-md4dx]

I don't see..hear anything wrong with the theme music. It is your show so play what you like.

[@toddberger4648]

"Romatic and dumb" vs "There is no dogma in farming" Just like any job, farming may be just a business to some folks.... And it may be much more than a business to other folks. Is it possible that both are okay?

[@chriskimber7179]

Hello Jessee I do not like this theme song Your past themes were much better But you do you

[@ronaldcummings6337]

Romantic and dumb... 😀

[@mosesfarmstead3225]

I battled Bermuda grass for years. I started being really diligent with keeping my compost and woodchips replenished at season changes and do them nice and thick. The bigger patches come up now and again but the soil has softened so much that they pull right out now. The only real weed I battle now is wiregrass year round and nut sedge in the summer.

[@timbushell8640]

UK space... and THE point for No-Dig, etc. 1h 20m-ish. Natural Farming Pioneer: "We're quite extreme... perennials have replaced polytunnels" - KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYOZo3ajbbWXjrc

[@theoraclesisl330]

For the record, the theme song is catchy and memorable, yet, at the same time, a bit of an ear worm, lol😂