Huge Heirloom Tomato Harvest and Variety Review | Roots and Refuge Farm
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Watching your old videos missing you already. I think all these heart shaped tomatoes were trying to tell you just how much love you were about to receive.
I am watching this video for the hundredth time. I miss my tomatoes. This video gets me through the winter until growing season. Thank you!
Jess, I just want to say that " this is why you are so awesome " !! , and even more Awesome today in 2024 !!!! We gardeners learn from your archive posts and you are true , inspirational , strong, admirable and well-rounded as well as detailed in your garden journey ! We love walking along on your garden-road journey through time and space.
i went on holiday to Greece last year, and the local markets there sold huge, ugly gnarled tomatoes,
we bought some to go in a salad and MY GOD the taste was gorgeous and the texture was like biting into an amazing steak
so we kept some seeds and have planted them back home and they've actually started growing!
got some huge monsters growing! can't wait for them to ripen up, people don't know what they're missing when all they try are supermarket tomatoes :D
It's 4 years later on June 13, and i always come back to this video just to remind myself of seeds i should get my hands on before they run out. This review, in particular, is the reason i grow unique tomatoes, and i couldn't be happier
I don't know how many times I've watched this video and I never get tired of it.
Whenever I’m missing my garden, I watch harvest videos. Your videos are my favorite and soothe my impatient and uneasy heart. When I started watching your videos last year, they inspired me to take the first step for the vegetable garden that I was too intimidated to start. It was exhausting to prepare the tiny 10x 20 plot of land, tilling the soil, removing the vast network of weeds, and amending the soil, but it helped to pull me out of my depression for the time that I had my garden. I can’t remember if it was you or another CZcams gardener that said “in your first year of gardening, you harvest wisdom and a snack for later” but it was pretty true. While it was a bit disappointing that I wasn’t able to harvest as I’d hoped, I still felt a sense of gratitude for the experience and connection I felt with the plants and with the happiness I hadn’t known for a while, so in my own way, I was still successful. This past fall/winter has been heavy on my heart, but as I sowed my tomato seeds in their seed starter pots, I haven’t been able to stop feeling like myself, the version of myself that loves reading, learning, connecting with people, exercising. I don’t know if you’ll read this, but thank you, Jessica. Your videos have inspired and liberated me.
I have never liked fresh tomatoes. I will eat salsa, spaghetti sauce and the like, but fresh tomatoes? Nah. This is until I came across your channel. You talked about how the homegrown fruits taste better. Well this year I grew some tomatoes in containers on my patio and my life has been changed. I actually like them! So thanks for that. 💚
This makes me excited for you 😀
I was like you, until I was about 10 years old. a neighbor girl said lets jump this fence, and steal a tomato. We did, and had a salt shaker. I`ve been hooked ever since ! My parents never had a garden.
@thecasualhiker I haven't tried fried green tomatoes yet! But now that we have moved to our new property, I'm planning our late summer/fall garden and allotting a good bit of space for tomatoes. So I see some fried green tomatoes in my future. 😉
I'm growing some yellow cherry tomatoes this year, they are the best I've ever had.
My favorite tomatoes are the yellow tomatoes. They have fabulous flavor.
that rain laughter at 18:25 is pure joy 🌧️🍅🌧️🍅🌧️🍅
This is one of my favorite kind of videos! Tomato harvests!
I love how you can hear Bear panting as he follows you
Thanks for sharing your love for gardening it really helps me to garden with joy. Btw I’m 13 and I learned gardening with your videos!
Thank you sow much !
Liked your "recipe" for freezing tomatoes. Hoping to have a good enough harvest to be able to freeze some of mine!! 🍅🍅🍅
I’ve been watching your videos for a few weeks now. I’m so grateful for you. You’re like a breath of fresh air. You’ve made this “shelter in place” enjoyable and I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you so much and god bless you and your family.
I bought my first Heirlooms tomatoes seeds and glad to know that most of them , you grow them in your garden
I love the longer videos with more detail. They are all great but it’s a nice treat when you post a longer video. Ignore that one guy 🙅🏻♀️
I'm glad you kept the running from the rain and hiding from the wasp in the video. Made me laugh.
This is what we do here in northern Minnesota when stung by a bee or wasp. Right away, get a fresh onion and cut it in half. You want the onion to be juicy. Put this on the sting area and within minutes the sting will go away and you will not swell up from the bite. Of course if you have allergies to bees disregard this. This amazes me even now. Love your video and all your tomatoes 🍅
Amiga ...i have nothing but respect for u girl...i hope this year i could have at least 13 succesful heirloom tomatoes plants, but you should know that you have inspired me to 😊😊have more heirlooms. Dios te bendiga amiga.
I have been dehydrating the orange roussollini this season because the plants have been producing so well. It’s like eating candy. I will definitely plant them again. Your baskets of tomatoes are BEAUTIFUL!!
Jess, do you have a video already on how you core the tomatoes and freeze them and make a sauce? I would love to at least see how you prep them to freeze :)
I too would love to see how Jess cores the tomatoes! When I search, I find examples of removing all the seeds and everything! It didn't sound like that is what she meant since that wouldn't save very much time. Please Jess, let us know how you do that! I watch everything you and your family produces - I'm hooked! Thank you for all you give to us! :-)
I would as well!
Same here Jess
She has a video, I think a few weeks back, where she explains it.
I would also!
I love the way your garden is like 90% tomatoes, it makes me happy!
Jess these videos where you high light the varieties are my favorite videos that you produce. I have not nearly the space you have available so it REALLY helps inspire me and teaches me about varieties that I may experiment with in my planting next year in my little garden🌱🌹❤️
I liken it to a ZOO of tomatoes. Get to see exotic varieties from all over the world! Thank you for sharing !
Same! I only have room for 2 plants
wow what a huge thyme plant growing underthe tomatoes! great idea for edible ground cover
You are an awesome woman/ person ! I've been gardeners nag for my 3rd summer now, back to eden method- basically self taught (CZcams) i pray to Jesus I find so one like u to start a new garden/life with someday - start a family. Was close to suicide in march but with all these beautify crops to grow/ harvest to reap I just couldn't give up hope.- praise God! Keep up the great work- south jersey salutes you
Today's Easter, and tomorrow I plant!
I'm watching your harvest videos, and can't wait to get my tomatoes in the ground!!!!!
you were such a badass when you got stung by that wasp. I would be crying like a baby!
Seeing you caught by surprise in the rain shower tickled me...made me giggle out loud 😁
It's super nice to have someone actually review different heirlooms outside of what the seed catalogs claim. I don't have the space to experiment much. Baker Creek has been hit-and-miss for me, but their Blueberry cherry variety has not only been a prolific, fruit-filled plant, it's been reseeding itself in random places (even in clay and gravel around the pots) every year. I've not had much luck with other varieties in containers.
I've learned more from you than any other channel. 3rd year Gardner here besides my grandmother's farm in Florida I grew up on and now live in
So many heirlooms! I wish I had the room!!!!! Awww. My Grandpa always grew Jet Stars so I ALWAYS grow that one for that reason.
One year my little dog ate all my cucumbers and tomatoes! It's like he suddenly figured out they could be eaten and went for it LOL. I'm glad you still have lots left!
I think all those heart shaped tomatoes are kisses and hugs from God for you Jess. That’s unusual to have all those.
Love this overview of tomato varieties with your opinions on them. It can be hard to decide what to get when looking at seed catalogs, so having someone's experiences along with the catalogs helps.
I love your videos. I always feel so happy & at peace seeing your work. Your life and garden is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing & God bless💕🌱
"Awe, I love you too stump of the world". Jess, you crack me up 😁! I love your tomato reviews.
I watched this twice because it was so helpful!
This was like walking around with a friend. I've grown tomatoes for years, but I am learning so much, and I love your farm, and you just seem like a fun kind of person. And I like yellow tomatoes too, but Arkansas Travelers are my favorites, because they're exactly the right size and I love the flavor and pinkish red color. But I still enjoyed listening to your opinions and seeing the 'maters in your beautiful garden.
Jess I just can't believe there's a video you've made that I didn't see-- apparently I missed this one; because there was no thumbs up on it great video love some of those tomato varieties that you said you were gonna grow again😂💖💖 I may look for that peach one🤤
I always freeze ALL my tomatoes. My grandparents did the same. Thats why I do it. By the end of the year I have a freezer full of "tomato rocks". It makes processing SO much easier.
My brother-in-law's favorite,Arkansas traveler.
Jess- have you ever grown SAN MARZANO tomatoes? minimal seeds, lots of flesh and skins easily removed. They are my spaghetti sauce makers! Plants grow 6' tall and fruits are enormous!
We've also had a TON of giant tomatoes this year. We also planted late this year because of continuous flooding for weeks on end, so they still have another month or so left in them before they start slowing down. But even our cherry tomatoes are huge; some of them have gotten to the size of a half dollar. It's a crazy year for tomatoes.
Beautiful Jess, you inspire me to get into my garden. Because of you I wake up every day excited to get up and out. Its winter down under right now but I am using the time to prepare for a brilliant spring.
It's pouring rain, I can't sleep, kinda have the blues so I decided I needed some midsummer Jessica tomato harvest to brighten my spirit 🧡
Hey Jess, love the videos. Using a battery powered black Light will easily locate horn worms.
Can they be fed to the chickens?
I’m so amazed that your tomato crop is about done... and I have 38 tomato plants full of green tomatoes and not one ripe one yet. 😆 I’ll ship you some in August if you send me one now. I’m dying for my first tomato sandwich!! 🥰
And same for me in SoCal/10a. I've had a few grape/cherry tomatoes and a couple of regular tomatoes ripen but there are simply DOZENS of green tomatoes on my plants teasing me.
My tomatoes are just starting to grow. Just started flowering. Nova Scotia had a very cold wet spring so things are just getting off the ground. Plus I'm disabled so I'm a bit behind everyone else here probably too. Lol
I am right there with you, I only have about 12 tomato plants with lots of green tomatoes, but nothing to harvest just yet... maybe in the next couple of weeks, I am so jealous thou lol
Tied2TheTube Do you shade them? I’m in Cali zone 9 and only have 2 tomatoes from about 20 indeterminate plants. Turns out tomatoes don’t set fruit when it’s above mid 90s. Next year I either shade or just do determinantes.
This year has been terrible for growing tomatoes, the winter was to long then rain a lot then the heat was thrown at us in the 90! so the plants didnt have enough time to put a lot of flores, if they did they are not ripening, solution? SHADE YOUR TOMATOES,,!
My plants are full of fungus, so Im done, here in texas we also deal with stink bugs in june, july, august..... so even if I shade, they get pierced. So, Im trying to save my plants, but my Lord please have mercy of us! its HOT
Thank you for all your advice and help with gardening
Im like a kid in a candy store when I see a notification for a new video from you. Your videos relax me and are my favorite part of the week. Thank you.
I love it when you go over and describe tomato varieties. Very informative.
I appreciate the detailed reviews so much! After watching your tours for over a year now I am convinced to try the Amish Paste and the black beauty. What is your favorite tomato for canning and what is your favorite tomato for paste?
I've been canning for a few years now and your tomato processing tip is a game changer for me lol. So excited to put that to use this year!
Thanks for the detailed Tomato Harvest... Love your laugh! 😁
From East michigan supporting the roots and refuge farm family.
Best tomato channel I've seen
God’s showing you tons of love in your tomatoes!! Can’t believe you are harvesting and Ben is AWOL
I really appreciate the insight on the different tomatoes in your garden. Thank you 😊
i just have to say after seeing you run from the rain i just love your laugh. i just wish i could do more gardening but i live in a rv.
My hubz and I lived in an Airstream in an RV park for 7 years. He made me planter boxes all along the front side of Rosie (the Airstream) and also made me a trellis with a garden area. I had LOTS of melons, squash, tomatoes, zucchini and a few other interplantings. Everything was made to be able to pickup and go, which we eventually did. Please give it a try. It is Soo rewarding.
I got Thornburn's Terra cotta seeds as a bonus pack from Baker Creek. I am impressed. They produced well and I thought the flavor was really good. I will grow them again.
Good look at a lots of different tomatoes
Thank you for the teaching
I would also really like to see how you core the tomatoes and put an x to freeze them! I loved the videos you made on canning!
I’m feeling that you are disenchanted with all your tomatoes. What is your favorite for a tomato sandwich? I’ve never once had a cat face tomato. I’ll knock on wood because my tomatoes are just coming on here in Northwest Washington State 🦋💜
I tried the frozen trick last year, after you mentioned it. I have to say, it worked like a charm!! It was so easy and saved so many tomatoes for me. Thank you so much for this tip!! Great video and beautiful tomatoes!🍅💕
I love seeing all of the different tomatoes. It helps me get an idea if it's something I want to try. Dr. Whyche made an appearance in my garden this year and I'm loving it.
It’s mid January and I came across this video, I have been searching the seed catalogs. Thank you for showing your vast amount of tomato varieties with the taste testing , and pros and cons. You and someone else gave a good review for the Black beauty variety, which I thought was pretty , and so probably tasteless. I will have to give it a try.
Your garden is full of love! 💚 ❤️ 💚
I have more than a few varieties because they have such good names!
Heat, storms, and a wasp sting! Thank you for your persistence in making this video. I LOOOVED seeing all the different varieties you grow. Here in zone 4a I am growing Green Zebra, Mountain Princess, Indigo Rose, Matt's Wild Cherry, Principe, Cherokee Purple, and a Pineapple tomato (that I purchased because of your vlogs). Looking forward to trying some more yellow varieties next year.
Love tomato harvest!😊😊😊😊
Jess I love your videos, your love for the garden. I need a love for cooking now lol ! I’d love to spend time with you in your kitchen showing us some recipes you make from the garden to the table, please :)
Wow! That get stuffed tomato is so beautiful! 😍
Until I started watching your vlogs,vi had no idea there were so many varieties and colors of tomatoes! Thanks for expanding my world 😆
I love that your garden loves you so much it sends you heart after heart! Even in this harsh year for gardening. Not to mention the wonderful and wholesome boys you have raised! I hope your and yours continue to be blessed with such massive harvests and much much more. Thanks for sharing so freely.
I've switched over completely to only canning up my tomatoes and tomato products AFTER freezing them! During the heat and activity of summer, it helps me to not feel so pressured to keep up with them. I can concentrate of putting away a lot of other things that can't wait. Once things cool down and slow down I can get those tomatoes out and finish processing them. The frozen tomatoes are also great if I want to make a cold gazpacho soup. I LOVE how the skins almost jump off the fruit.
Thanks for reviewing all those different varieties! Saves me trying them out in shifts, since I have less space for them than you do. That "Get Stuffed" one is so cool and odd! Disappointing that it doesn't taste as cool as it looks, but maybe that will be improved at some point. We like stuffed peppers around here, and having a great stuffing tomato would be fun. I grew some of the "Creole" and love them for processing. Most of them ripened about the same time and same size, which makes it easy to get them all done together. I'm definitely trying the Wapsi-whatsit Peach next year, based on your review. I have not tried any of the matte or fuzzy ones yet. Hubs likes a sweeter/less acidic tomato, so maybe those will be nice for him. I will also try the TripL Crop. And the Terracotta! So many varieties, so little space. And time! The Robeson is also one of my personal faves. Good tasting tomato for me, if my water situation is good. Otherwise they crack badly for me. Oxhearts are my all-time faves. I love the flavor, the texture (even as a fresh eating fruit), and their usefulness for sauce and paste. I've had some HUGE ones, and often in pairs. The pairs are so frequent that we actually call them "bull's balls". I know, sorry, that is crass. But I've been saving seeds from my plants forever, and I think they may even be their own variety by now. And that is actually what they look like.
didn't know I could freeze fresh picked tomatoes whole! Thank you! Just starting on my homesteading journey
Rewatching your videos - how have Ii never seen this one before?!
My tomato seeds are only just germinating, I had a late start this year, but hopefully we'll still get some fruit, even if it's only green tomatoes for making chutney!
They key to get a little size on your creoles is to water them with pond water.
They love rich black soil.
My granny who is from the parish (below new orleans) loved those creoles!
Thanks for spending your time helping us out. You have good information keep up the good work.
Wow..beautiful harvest. Waiting on our 1st one to ripen here.
We really need to grow together sometime. In some ways I wish I was still over in Oklahoma. I was in Osage Oklahoma off keystone lake. When you talked about planting the tomato for your dad. My grandpa's the one who got me into gardening, and all he grew was a little shed that had a bunch of pots of tomatoes. And up until he died every year there was a patio tomato. So ever since he died I had to have a patio tomato in my garden. I'm now back to 70 miles west of Las Vegas Nevada.
I'm so jealous. My tomato plants have lots of flowers, not many tomatoes. I was able to harvest one cucumber and a few small zucchini. Horrible year for gardens. Thanks for sharing your beautiful harvest.
I am now inspired to tackle my tomato planting. I'm planting Roma and Pink Brandy-wine this year.I would love to find German Queen a large pink heirloom that was a great success .
You have a HUGE SELECTION of Tomatoes. LOVE your tours and your information. You REALLY need to stay updated!!! WHAT are you growing THIS YEAR!!! keep us fans updated!!! ^_^
Thank you for this video Jessie.
I live in Cave Creek,AZ and I actually got a late start this year on my garden (which is just adding challenges to an already challenged area to grow). But shocking to me and despite all the struggles I’ve already encountered I have tomatoes and veggies growing but not ready to harvest yet. (Had 2 zucchini’s so far since June, lol). So watching you harvest helps keep me motivated and helps my “jonesing” for some fresh harvested veggies. Seeing your accomplishments and watching your videos are really teaching me a lot. I hope to go back to blogging about my little desert homestead and speak to those who suffer challenges in zone 9 and 9b. I feel I’m definitely racking in the experience from wildlife to pests to extremes in temps. Thanks for motivating me to press on!
It’s so cute to see you in tomato heaven! 🌸
The variety is Thessaloniki! Greetings from Greece!
Black from Tula: the one thing i noticed and appreciated about it was that in my Ohio garden it was by far the first producer out of my tomato varieties
Wow! Your homestead is goals! Great job!
Love from a new channel💕
I was watching this from my porch and looking at my garden. Had to pause to go out and check for more green beans and found another ripe tomato. Planted Paul Robeson for the first time and the flavor is fantastic💥
That was so cute between the rain dash, the wasp and the chickens hollowing some out. Thank you.
Thank you for going out in that weather. I love your tomatoes!
There is something about her smile. Just love it.
So many lovely tomatoes, love watching you harvest!
That thumbnail: it's such a joy to see your wide smile of excitement over tomatoes. I personally hate tomatoes, it's the only thing I dont eat. I'm not picky at all about food. But your enthusiasm makes me a lover of them, not to eat though, just to watch about. Your genuine love for what you do is infectious. Thanks for getting us back into gardening after a 2+years of having given it up.ypure a life saver
Maybe you will like them if you eat them on a sandwich with sugar on them. That is what my grandmother told me they did when they tried tomatoes for the first time when she was young. They didn't like them either :-)
Beautiful Garden.. I have to share this when my girls was little I canned yellow & orange tomatoes. I made ketchup salsa pizza sauce spaghetti sauce diced tomatoes & juice. So nothing was high acidic or red. With this said we went th their Grandma's she fixed them Spaghetti. My then 6 & 4 year old was surprised. They thought GRANDMA was feeding them rotten sauce. They wouldn't eat it.. My oldest replied Mommy's is better & it is yellow she needs to show you how to can your tomatos so they aren't rotten. My Mother in law busted out laughing she was in her 60tys. I explained tomatoes come in many colors. So they ate some. Then our youngest whispered to Me. Mommy you really need to teach Grandma how to cook this it was GROSS.. They funny thing was when we returned home their Daddy said that was so gross maybe you could teach my MOM. That was 30ty years ago. I never told her. We laugh every harvest season... GOD BLESS
Wow such a selection I never knew there was such a variety tfs xx
I really enjoy Daniel's music in the background.
Your tomatoes are awesome 🍅❤Nice rain. Almost like Florida only ours usually lasts 20 minutes then stops. ❤🙏
G'day Jess, that is an awesome harvest so many different varieties. God bless you guys.
Thank you! Was very informative and amazing to see all those varieties of tomatoes 🍅
That was fun, thanks for taking us along!
This was really awesome to see so many varieties at once, thanks!