Container Gardening: Its Time To Get Some Planting Done

If you’re anything like me then you may have some clean up work to do that maybe you should have done at the end of last growing season. So in order to get started planting you have to first spend time cleaning up the area you want to plant. Maybe it’s a shade too soon to plant the summer crops but there is always something that you can get planted……and anything is better than nothing

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Container gardening It’s time to get some planting done
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So, as you see, we’re outside here and we’re It’s nice weather and we’re going to plus start planting some food. I got to be honest with you, I’m ready to go. Now, we ain’t got the garden tilled up or nothing. We ain’t got anything truly done. And if you’re like us, I mean, as you’ll see here in this in this B-roll footage, we I let things go. Like you come you come to the springtime and you see that okay it’s ready you ready to start planting but then you realize all the things you didn’t tidy up on the back end of growing season last year. So before you can even plant you got to start cleaning up everything. And we’re going to do some things some little things differently this year because we had this uh we have we have so many sections of our yard that we plant in that get weeds too much. It’s it’s a lot of trim work. It’s a lot of weed eating, right? It’s a lot of random maintenance that just takes up time. So, if we can help it, we’re going to avoid that. We had this um this uh ground cover that we used in the garden a couple years ago. We don’t really like using it in the garden. Uh it just wasn’t good for that. But at the same time, we still have it, right? So, and we’ve invested money in it. And rather than storing it away for for whatever, I’m going to try and use it as a ground cover around some of these areas where where we use containers at grow bags and green stalks and and some other places in the yard just to keep weeds at bay. maybe maybe some other awesome poison ivy down the down the road somewhere. But um we’re going to get the the ground cover laid down and we’re going to plant some grow bags today. Now, it’s going to be a little cool to plant too many things that are that are warm weather loving, but there’s some stuff that we can plant that uh will be just fine for for a little bit of cool weather. It’s not going to be cold cold, but a little bit of cool weather here this weekend. Now, I’ve filled up these bags already with some dirt or soil as some of you guys want to remind me of, man. been uh refertilized them already cuz that soil’s been sitting around. Who knows if it’s real fertile or not or what it’s going to be like. So, I uh just put some fertilizer in there. Take care of it real good. And this one, these bags aren’t need a ton of soil, but make sure it get nice and fertilized. Mix it in. Again, this thing right here, the threeprong handheld like tiller cloth thing, that’s good stuff. any uh any container gardener, small space gardener, raised beds, whatever, you need you need one of these things. They’re so hand helpful. They they uh they mix in fertilizer and tear up some old soil real easy. Now, these front bags, we have uh we have 10 gallon bags. And I started to rearrange these differently, and I was like, well, put the these this way, whatever. I put all the 15 gallons over here cuz these are 15 gallon bags. Well, I decided that what’s going to be planted in these might shade everything else. So, we’re going to put them back here. And these certainly won’t shade anything at all cuz we’re going to just put some real simply. Put some onions in there real easily. Just put them drop them in as many as you want. Well, not as many as you want, but uh every couple or a few inches. Put them in there. These are onion sets. So, just leave the leave the little tops. See? I’ll show you right here. Planting onion sets. This is a set. We normally used to plant plants all the time, but these are sets or plant uh plant like starter ones like uh slips and uh these are sets though and they’re a little better. This one feels like it might be rotting. So, we’re not going to plant it, but leave that little see that little nodule up out of the ground and uh just cover the cover the ball. Okay, that’s about an inch deep. Planted about 4 in apart. You’d be surprised how many of these little bitty fellas you can fit in a 10gon grow bag. Tell you what, we uh we’re doing again, like I said, we’re doing things differently a little bit this year. Trying to be a little more efficient. Uh rotate some of our crops around a little bit. And in doing so, we’re going to have a few different methods for some individual uh crops. Like onions we used to put in a cinder block bed over there in the corner. And we put them in like the little holes of the center block and whatnot. And they uh they did okay over there. Not not as good as they should do, honestly. So, we’re going to do a little something different. We’re going to put nine. Going to get nine in one of those. And so, we got nine there. And we’re going to put Anyways, we’re going to put um onions. We put some in the green stock if you seen earlier. And we’re going to put what we can these in these grow bags here just to see what happens. If honestly like you got to realize something folks, we don’t grow food just for fun of it. I mean it is fun, don’t get me wrong, but we want to try to grow the food that we eat. Angela uses onions quite a bit in different uh for the base of different cooking methods and whatnot. Just, you know, how many things that you actually cook? How many things call for half an onion sauteed or whatever, half a cup onion, whatever. Just, you know, chopped onion and just a lot of things do. Now, if you’re like my parents, my parents eat a whole layer of onion on their pizza. That’s not for me, folks. But uh but they love onions. My mother should grow about 1,000 lbs of onions a year. She’d be okay with that. But like I uh we still want to grow onions, you know? I enjoy eating red onions. We’re pretty good. We’ve grown them before. These are different varieties what we used to grow. These are Carmen Red. I think that’s what they’re called. Yeah, Carmen Red. K A R K A R Carmen. Uh, we used to grow one called um, red zeppelin. Okay, it’s called red zeppelin. Not lead red zeppelin. And that was really good. I’m assuming red. This red onion is going be pretty good as well. But, you know, you want to grow what you eat and what and so what you’re planting, you want to grow quite a bit of it so you can eat it, right? That’s the point of it. And if things aren’t working out the way you want them to work out, then maybe you should try something different. And so, while everything did okay like this before, they could do better, right? It’s okay to try something different and try to get a better result. I mean, it’s silly to think you’re going to get a different result than you got in the last 3 or four or five years. Do doing the same thing you done the last three or four or five years, right? So, we’re doing something a little different. One thing we notic is in that bed over there, another thing that we grows better. It grows pretty well over there anyways. So, why not rotate them around? Put that over there. Put this over here. You know, just switch some things up and see how it goes. And in these 15 gallon grow bags, we’re going to plant some Green Arrow peas. Okay, these Green Arrow peas are an English pee, so they’re shelling pee. Uh they trellus about 28 in, host says. Uh so we’re going to put them in these grow bags, and we’re going to use an old school wired tomato cage to uh trellis them on cuz they need a little bit of trellusing, nothing crazy. So I I believe this should do just fine. We’ve planted peas, English peas in grow bags before and they grow really well. But peas are tricky. They need they can’t be have too hot of weather, but they can’t be too cold. They can’t freeze. They can handle cool weather, but they can’t freeze, right? So, what do you do? You try to grow them in the coolest parts of the year, which is early spring and fall. Springs turn out to be fairly warm right now, but they can’t it can handle some heat. So, I wish we had gotten these in a week or two earlier, but we’re getting them in right now. Okay, so these green arrow peas, we put them in this bag around this tomato cage. And I’m going to tell you something right now. Host seeds has the best pea seeds. Okay, see you see in there all that. Some places you’re going to get like yellowish seeds. They need to be green green or white. Okay, see that? If you get if you get yellow seeds, they’ve gone too far and they’re not going to germinate very well. They they may germinate some, but not as well. Trust me, I know. We’ve experienced it. These hos pea seeds grow. It germinates so much better. They’re absolutely the best pea seeds you can get. So if you’re looking for sugar snaps or English peas, I would suggest going to host. They got better seeds. And the cool thing is because of how they grow, you can just kind of put them in no no real order. Just make sure you give them a little a couple inches of space. Give them a couple inches between each one and put them in there. They’re all going to grow up anyways and latch on to this. So once they latch on to this wire, it doesn’t matter, right? They’re going to they can be front or back, whatever. They’re going to grow up and they’re going to latch onto this. That’s just how they’re going to latch on. And so you can just get them in here. No real order. Just bury them about about an inch deep. Okay. I tend to go maybe a little more shallow because they might wash down a little bit and so therefore you give them a little chance to wash down some possibly especially like in a hard rain. But you know just keep planting them real easy. Ain’t no uh science to it. It’s more mathematics, right? You got to measure spacing. Look, and if you happen to get them a little bit closer, no big deal. If you happen to put one in the middle of the trellis, no big deal, cuz it’s going to grow up right here, attach on anyways, right? You’re looking at growing as much food as possible in a small space. So, if you happen to plant too a couple too many seeds, don’t worry about it. It might be just fine, especially in this loose soil like you put in a grow bag. You put loose soil in grow bags so that they don’t constrict in the heat like or compact. When they get hot, you know, when when soil gets hot, it wants to tighten up, right? Grow bags, you know, any kind of container gardening, you want to use a loose soil. All right? So, this is a good loose soil, a mix of potting mix that we’ve had over the years, some compost, and just stuff we mixed together on our own. Good loose soil. That’s what you’re looking for. I got a couple extra seeds in my hand. I’m just going to pop them in somewhere. You know why? Cuz it ain’t going to matter at the end of the day. Just plant your seeds and go about your business. So, there it is. We’re going to plant these other ones just like that. I’m not I’m going to spare you the details of how that looks, but I’m going to tell you something right now. Get excited about growing your food and grow the food that you love to eat and use the space that you got. It’s so much fun. It’s so rewarding and enjoyable and it’s better than wasting your time on Facebook or X because by the way I do that sometimes and it’s a waste. Get outside. It’s much better for you, much more enjoyable and less stressful. Right? So thank you guys so much for watching. I do appreciate my name is Jason. This is Art of Christian Homestead. We love youall. God blessing. Goodbye.