Front Yard Container Garden Tour 🌸🥕🍓 | Blake’s Zone 8a Garden

Join me as we tour Blake’s beautiful front yard container garden in Zone 8a! 🌿✨ Blake grows flowers, vegetables, herbs, and fruits—all in creative container setups right in his front yard. Not only does he share practical gardening tips, but he also shares his harvest with neighbors, turning his garden into a space of community connection and inspiration. @oneacreplanting

In this video, Blake talks about:
✅ Overcoming the challenges (and joys!) of a front yard garden
✅ Creative ways to grow in small spaces and containers
✅ Encouraging neighbors and building community through gardening
✅ Why anyone can start a garden—no backyard required!

🌱 Blake is also the owner of One Acre Planting, where he helps design and set up personalized gardens for any space. Learn more about his services here: www.oneacreplanting.com
IG: @oneacreplanting

👉 If you’ve been thinking about starting a garden—whether in containers, a small yard, or even your front lawn—this video will inspire you to grow where you are!

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[Music] Hey, I’m Tiffany with Tiff Farms and I’m here this morning with Blake Brown from 1acre Planting and we met at a local nursery and we just hit off in the what was it? The uh grape and raspberry section. Oh, grape and raspberry. And I just started asking you some questions. He probably said, “Who is this interesting lady talking to me?” But we had a good conversation for what? probably like 20 30 minutes. Yes. We were sweating, right? Yeah. And it was fun. I love talking about anything gardening and Blake was very open. He has a lot of knowledge and I wanted to take you all along and uh get uh his personal take on his knowledge base of gardening and his style of gardening. So, we’re going to just uh do a little tour. And Blake, I just really want to get to know or we want to get to know you more as well as what you like to do. And this is your residence, right? Yes. This is where I stay. And how he’s taking advantage of the space and I love the fact that I see containers and no grass. So, um, just tell me a little bit about you just to start off with as far as how you got, um, passionate about gardening. Did it just you woke up one day and you said, “I want to be farmer Joe or Farmer Blake?” Actually, it kind of happened like that. Um, I went to school for chemistry and biology. Um, really I wanted to be a pharmacist. Nice. Okay. So, just throughout my years of college and just seeing how the world was changing and things like that, I drifted into farming and and growing plants and things like that. But I could see how it drifts because pharmarmacia or the uh pharmaceutical is originally from our herbs and the the abundance that is here on earth that they put in a chemical form. true medicine. The true medicine, right? So, that is a good lead to how you plus you got the head knowledge. You know what I’m saying? As far as from the chemistry that would hurt my brain, but um you know, everybody got their strengths and weaknesses and what they specialize in. But at least you, you know, can relate that to like the soil structure and stuff like that. Basically, just understanding the structure of gardening. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Well, you’ll I’m sure you’ll educate us more on that. So, what we’re going to do is just walk around, see your area, and I’m impressed with the fact that you are doing everything in containers. So, you guys can do that, too. It’s impressive what he’s done. What I’ve seen just here, I pointed out a couple of things, and I’m impressed. So, first off, um I always like to say, what zone are we in for your your location? I believe this is zone seven. Okay. I know they switch things around on us tour of your area. Yeah. I’m starting my marold. Um I have catnip in here. He gave me some seeds. I had just recently cut this down. Um where’s your catnip? Oh, this whole bush right here is catnip. Okay. Yeah, I just recently cut it down. It was flowering, so I collected the flowers inside so I can try to um collect the seeds. Okay. I have rosemary over here. I have margarine, peppermint, spearmint, strawberry mint, bergamant, apple mint, lemongrass. Uh I always got little cuts from lemongrass. You got to be careful with that, right? Uh lemon balm, curled parsley, sage. Uh I want to say this is basil. Nice. Shashidto peppers, banana peppers. um bell peppers. I have Asian delight eggplant. I have delight regular eggplant. Right here I have more marolds morning glories which are taking over the garden. Yeah, I see the little flowers up there. Mhm. Had some sunflowers out here. You save the seed or the birds got it? No, I think Yeah, there’s no seeds in this one. But the one that I did save the seeds. I cut it down, took it in size. Good. Okay. And I also saved the seeds of these marolds. Yeah. See, look. He gave me one of these and it’s filled with seeds. Yeah. So, they come. Always make sure you save your seeds. Yes. Uh, snap dragons. And all of this is in containers. If you see below, every one of the herbs and flowers that he talked about are in containers. So you guys can do that too. I have some uh hydrangeas. I actually brought these from Florida. I brought maybe I brought a little leaf like this. Kept it in water for maybe like two weeks. Once it started rooting, I had put it in dirt. Let it do its thing. Now um is this a tomato that uh is from a tomato plant or it it’s self? It actually just came out of the ground by itself. Oh, okay. So I got a tomato plant. volunteer coming out the ground right there. And I also got a marold coming out the ground over there. Oh yeah, right here. Mhm. Nice. And that’s just sometimes either from seeds falling out or fruit falling over something like that. Just just as if if I would have did this and they started pollinating, right? I have a friend that um she just spreads seed and what happens happens. That’s how she gardens. Yeah, I actually like that. Yeah, it’s it’s a surprise every time. I see a little baby eggplant. I got one down here. Matter of fact, see. Oh, there it is. So, this is a um that’s regular egg. Regular black uh black beauty. Mhm. And this this one right here is a Asian delight. Now, do you cook well? Yeah, I do. What do What would you make with these? Um I last time I cooked eggplant, I think I fried them and put it in um I want to say bread crumbs. Okay. And it came out pretty good. Yeah. Mhm. That’s the main thing that I think is exciting, too, is that you eat your harvest. Now, do you share some? Yeah, I do. With your with your lovely neighbors? I do. They they get come get tomatoes. They come get peppers. This a California reaper. Oh my. This is super super super hot. Now I don’t know what you making with this. Now they make um I want to say like sauce. Yeah. And then also you let them dry out and make chili flakes. Okay. Mhm. So you got a big taste bud for hot for the I like hot. I like hot. Also got some more maragos back there and some onions. Um now can you explain to people why you have these uh maragos? Are they pollinators only or what are they? No they pollinators. They also defend against mosquitoes and aphits. Okay. And you can rub them like this. And you can see it smells like off. Okay. Hold on a second. So basically what you’re saying is it repels mosquitoes and pest. Mhm. The ones that we don’t want in our garden. Hold on. Let me see. I took some leaves with it. Yes, it does. I better put some on cuz I get torn up. by mosquitoes. That’s one thing I could say like you know when they talk about what you like and don’t like about gardening which I’ll ask you but my thing is if you want to we can swing around cuz I have tomatoes on Oh sure. Okay. So this would be a little Now what kind of tomatoes do you do the uh determinant or the interminent? To be honest I haven’t really gone. So what’s the difference between that? Uh the determinant determinant ones they um grow they say to a determined height and then they produce all their fruit at the same time. And then the interdeterminant will be the tall vining ones that most people have to put on a trellis. And then those are the ones that will start fruit at the bottom. You’ll harvest and then they’ll continue to flower and grow sometimes to eight to 10 or 15 feet. Depends on how long. I usually the ones that I’ll grow, I’ll kind of clip it at a to a certain height cuz I don’t want to be on a step stool, you know, trying to reach it. Yeah. But, you know, there’s uh certain ones like the Romas, you know. Well, these are um yellow boys. Yellow boys. And then the beef steaks usually are the the term right there are Roma. And I think I have one big boy. Okay. Yeah. And that they’re good. You know, some people don’t like so much uh acidity or, you know, acid with the tomatoes, but a lot of good meals can be made out of with the tomato sauce and everything. Okay. So, this is this is pretty much herbs, peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes. Mhm. And And what do you do with your herbs? I usually cut them and dry them out. Hang dry them. Okay. I love rosemary. And you can just Oh, smell this. Oh, it smells so good. What is this again? I’ll let you guess. Okay. It’s a mint. Um, is it peppermint? It’s peppermint, but it’s it’s strawberry mint. Oh, I never heard of strawberry mint. Mhm. This one right here. I do smell strawberry. This one right here is apple mint. All right. Now you you’re Mr. Mint. Uh yeah, I love specialist. I see. They don’t sell these at your regular box stores. Yes. We can come to this side right here. So over here I have orange mint. I have Where did you get all these seeds? I want to know. This is orange. Yeah, that’s orange mint. Man, that’s amazing. God makes some awesome stuff. This borage. Yes. Now, you talk about some borage. Let me tell me what what you know about borage. Where is it? Right here. Oh, right here. And it has such a pretty flower. It’s already flowered, but um what are the benefits of borage? Um I want to say it’s more like a like a a full detoxer. So it helps like detox out your blood whenever you steep it, whenever you um like dry out the leaves and turn it into a tea. Same with mint. Same with lemon balm. And you also can do that with bergamont. And you can use bergamont and some people use bergamont in making oils. Okay. And lotion. Have you ever done that yet? I haven’t. I have friends that I give herbs to that they do that. Right. Yeah. I wanna I want to uh learn how to do that. But um yeah, I with the uh borage also is a wonderful uh pollinator. You’ll attract so many beneficial um insects with those that help with the garden. Same with cat news. Mhm. Is and and is that the same as the one for the one that uh for cats? Yeah. That make them go cuckoo or excited or whatever. And what do we have here? This is raspberries. Okay. I have raspberries. I have a baby mango over here. I have pineapple. Uh aloe vera. Okay. So, wait, wait, wait. You said two things that um What is this one? That’s mango. Mango and a pineapple. So, was this a pineapple that you cut off from the top of A lot of people do that. I know my dad was trying to do that, too. And then you got aloe vera. So because of the climate that we live in, we’re not tropical. So do you bring these indoors or how during the winter time when like it’s maybe like mid August once it start getting cold? I’ll transfer them inside. So you got a jungle in your house? N I don’t have a jungle. I’ll probably get a tent for them. Okay. Next time and just have a light and just have Don’t you wish you had a greenhouse? Man, that’s one of my things. I was like, man, if I could get a greenhouse, I can do all of these. I can do more. Yeah. Year round. So, it keeps the heat in there, right? And then, um, then you can really see it take off and grow. You got to make that climate. Whoops. You got to make that climate for it. And I see corn. Corn. I have more raspberries, more maragolds. Um, you are pomegranate. Banana. Banana. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Where’s the pomegranate? Right here. this bush right there. Oh, okay. I see it. Now, do you have to have um I forget the word. Um two of them for crosspollination. I’m not sure. I don’t think so cuz only reason I asked is that I had to cuz I thought you had to do crosspollination. We’ll we’ll clarify it. But ow. Oh, my bamboo sticks. I was like something is sticking me. Um yeah, like you know sometimes with fruit and certain things you need uh crosspollination. I do have two pomegranate but one passed away and um that happens sometimes with gardening. You lose some things. And then um so I have to get another one. But I did get my pomegranate at the local nursery we were at. Okay. I’ve had it outdoors. I kept it outdoors like two or three years. So yeah, this one’s been outdoors going on the second year. Yeah, this year I had fruit, but I didn’t have anything to cross-pollinate, so I think it didn’t. They just dropped. So I I got to work on that. But mine is in a container. So what else we got? All right. And I’m so excited to say see two things in here that you got so far. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don’t go past this. Figs. Look at that. I have two figs. I got one right here and one right here. Look at the figs. And at your feet right now is my goji berries creeping out from the middle of the garden. Yep. That is something else. So, where does it start? The goji berry. They’re actually all the way over here. Oh, it’s way way in there. Right here. And it’s reaching out beyond over there, over there, and creeping out over here on the sidewalk. That is amazing. Yeah. I got a nesberry tree. I have lavender. Yep, I see it. Um, eucalyptus. Now, this I have two. And you know that it was also at that nursery. I don’t know where you did you get it there. Yeah, I got I actually got both of those from there. One is silver dollar and the other one is I want to say blue. I could sniff this all day. I’m sorry. I love it. Love it. Yeah. Uh, something blue is a different uh variety, but it looks so good. And then you got the lavender. Mhm. Did you tell people you had this banana? Yeah, I have banana right there. I have banana right there. Banana right there. And it all started from one pup. One pup. Wow. And I it it produced from right now I had that pup for maybe two years and it gave me probably like 40 banana trees and it still You sell your bananas? I give them away. Yeah. I know everybody in my family, they say the same thing. and they activity you should sell your uh vegetables. You should you know I I like house plants also. So in my house it is a jungle and um so I have I you know you propagate like crazy. Yeah. Everything looks nice and healthy. Thank you. Thank you. Oh and my my apple trees. These are my glories. And you got them in the they’re impossible. Hold on. This is my seeds. I’m going to put them over here so I don’t forget. It’s not a microphone. All right. So, you’re going to have to teach me because I have apple trees and they they make apples. You know, they they produce apples, but I have I probably need to have you come over. You know about pruning and all. I probably have to work on pruning better. Yeah. I haven’t pruned these yet. I’m just letting them build structure right now. Cuz they’re Where did you get these or you started those? I actually planted those from seed. Really? I have one apple. Spit out the seed and put it in. Three, four, five. And I actually got two more started over there. From a seed. That’s impressive. From seed. Honey crisp. Honey crisp. Okay. Cuz they say, um, the seeds sometimes don’t come out true to form or and then they, you know, talk about the root stock, you know, usually from the ones that you buy in the store. Yeah. It’s a lot of mysteries with grow growing apples because they come with a lot of disease, too. Yes. That’s and and I don’t spray. Okay. So, keep going. Let’s see. Let’s see. Um I got watermelon creeping around. I see the vines everywhere. Yeah, I got some babies down here. Mhm. Oops. Oops. I’m stepping on your step. I got one right here. Courtney, look at that watermelon. I have another one right there. And it’s I think it’s like two more creeping in the garden. Oh, I see it. Yeah. That’s a great size. Yeah. I’ve gotten them to about this big. So, they get to a nice size. That’s a good height. That’s a good weight. So, I got my blueberries right here. Did you harvest any? Yeah. I have to get them before the birds do. I I have a bunch of varieties. some early um and then some late. Yeah, this this a late one right here. This is pink lemonade. Okay, man. I never tasted one. Let me see if I can find something. No, they won’t they these won’t come till the end of the summer. Oh, this is that late. Okay, so it’s just getting started. Yeah. And this one actually is Vernon blueberries. Oh, yeah. This is the one I have to compete with the birds to get to. Oh, you know what? I just realized there’s two containers. Mhm. There’s actually one more right here. Yeah. And you got them together for pollination, crosspollination. Okay. Yeah. So, the watermelons come all the way here. Then I have citronanella. I have some more um banana trees. So, is that helping you with the as they say to reduce the uh mosquitoes? Yeah, it is for the most part. It It’s like it wears away. Is it something that you have to rub too to smell? Yes, I smell it. Wow. This is this um this will be good for children like how it’s a sensory type of thing. A lot of things that you’re showing me with the herbs and just to touch and feel the different textures. That’s amazing. All right. There you go with your uh talking about be beat trying to beat the birds. Uh your elderberry. Mhm. Elderberries. I have two elder. I actually got that small one from that one. I actually just took a um a pruning of it and put it in dirt. And so you you you uh cut the stem, rooted it, just stuck it in. Just stuck it in dirt and let it do it thing. Nice. But that was a big um elderberry. I know the birds got it. Yeah, they cuz they got mine. And and that’s the hard thing is trying to cover everything. You know, sometimes you can’t. You gotta get some and let the birds and squirrels or whatever else you know you’re dealing with. Official plant. Yeah. Yeah. What is this in the back? Is that in the middle? That’s um variegated. That’s Cuban oregano. That is Is that green and white? That big of a leaf. Mhm. Wow. Cuban and it smells lovely. Can you break me off? Let me see. Man, you got everything back here. This is Cuban oregano. Look at the variegation on that leaf. All right, I’m going to be sniffing away. This smells If you crack the leaf, it’ll it’ll come out even more. How will you Oh, just bending it and folding it. Take a whiff. Take a whiff. So, here I have my Oh, man. This is so good. What is that? Morning glory. No, this Yeah, that was a morning gory. This is um my Jamaican lime. Uh papaya. Jamaican lime. Now, I had a papaya that I I I think I told you about when we were at the um nursery that I got a papaya and a dragon fruit for $5 because it was off season and it was looking kind of twisted. Mhm. But this is impressive. How long have you had this? I’ve had this going on two years now. And has it produced fruit? Yeah, actually. This is flower. Yeah, it produced um I want to say two papayas so far. No, but that’s wonderful. Yeah. And you got, you know, mega seeds. Now, this is what a 15 gallon Mhm. 15 gallon container. And look at the circumference of this. It actually maybe doubled in size from me bringing it from the last winter outside. Wow. So, from the end of May to now, I just love the umbrella effect, you know, how it um just castes the shade on it. Now, mine is this tall. I you know, it’s just really the first season. So, yeah, I got to give it time to grow. And how old is this one? Um, a year and a half, two years. Oh, well, I got to mine’s got to do some catching up. Maybe next next season cuz my leaves are little. They’re they’re they’re not fanned out like this yet. Yeah, they’ll get there. But all of this is containers. I’ll say it again five more times, I’m sure. But that’s what’s so impressive. So your bananas, pretty much all big big containers. This looks like a bigger container. Yeah. This is actually what the mama was in, but she died three. She actually died off when I brought her outside cuz I brought her outside too early. Okay. Cuz Georgia’s weather was a little tricky this year. It was a lot of rain and and it stayed cold for a long time. That’s true. So, I brought it out like early May and it got sick, so I brought it back inside and then the mom died out and then the pups took off get and rescued you. Indeed. Indeed. Wow. Yeah. I got a pear tree over here. Okay. What kind of pear tree is this? I’m not sure. I was actually gifted this tree. Okay. So, Oh, wait. This isn’t there a tag in there? Indeed, it is. Or maybe not. Pair assorted. Doesn’t say. Oh, it’s just a skew number and all. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, that’s in a nice size container, too. Yeah, I think that’s it for this side. Okay, let me back up here and follow you. This was my my raised bed. I had other things in here before I put these strawberries. Yeah, before I put these strawberries. Oh. Um, but I have cucumbers. I had zucchini. I had peas that covered this whole thing. And that must have been springtime. Yeah. Early spring. Once they really started harvesting. Once I harvested, they kind of like died back. Mhm. And then I have um mountain mint. Wait, I I want to know where you get all these mint selection. Do you do you get your seeds from a certain place? Um sometimes I’m gifted most of these things. Okay. Like so a lot of people come by, they’ll talk to me, things like that. Like my neighbor, her friend actually harvests mushrooms, but they also have a small farm, so they sometimes cut down things and bring them to me and I just put them in pots and let them do their thing. Okay. It’s chamomile. Chamomile. Do you make tea out of it? I haven’t. I I grow it, too. And it’s just a pretty flower. Yeah. But um they say it’s very good for your um digestion and you know certain ailments. So that’s good. And this raised bed has served you well then. Yeah, it has. It has done Oh, onions. I have some onions hanging right there. Okay. Yeah. Letting them cure. Mhm. This is my last little section. Okay. Um, this is my compost pit right here where I recycle most of my dirt and then I bring maybe cardboard. I bring out food scrappings. Yeah. Put it in there and mix it up and let it settle. And once I have holes in the bottom here, so I put worms in there too as well. Okay. So some of the casting fall down to the bottom. So yeah. So I just end up flipping pots over time. And that’s important for the soil biology that you know, right? So in composting there’s what do they tell us traditionally the grounds the greens or the um like cardboard paper uh fruit and vegetable scraps are good. Uh eggshell certain things. There’s like a lot of things that you can compost with but not well depending on your methods or whatever. um meats and stuff like that, but you know, they don’t really recommend. Is that your understanding? Yeah, mostly meats um aren’t recommended because they start to create maggots. Mhm. And then maggots, they end up eating the food that’s in the soil too as well. So, they start taking nutrients away from the soil. Yeah. So, we don’t want that. That’s counterproductive with all that hard work. And to me, I’m a gardener, so all of this that I see, I see is is beautiful. Um, a lot of people aesthetically may not uh agree with certain things. Like if you look at my backyard, it doesn’t look like a backyard in the sense because when you look and turn around there, I identify and see every little container that you’ve planted. And some people may say that’s a big tall patch of weed. You know what I mean? because they don’t know or you know it you know so that’s why I said so how did you being that you live in a residential area how was this acceptable to the community or how was it uh received did you get backlash or was it everything it was a struggle at the beginning um some people didn’t like the image of it because of not knowing the knowledge behind it and not just not having a love for gardening so it was a struggle of just getting some of the community into, you know, enjoying the image of my garden, right? So, it just took time and just talking to people, you know, educating them and being friendly, giving free plants away and things like that. So, it just it just took a minute, but now it’s it’s to a comfortable place to where I can come out here, just be yourself. Yeah. And that’s good. Do you get any um people just curious to want to get a tour or learn from you? Yeah. Anytime that I’m out in the garden, people come by and stop by. Especially when I have my sunflowers, people come by and compliment like, “I love your flowers.” Yeah. So, it it is a it is a conversational starter and I’m sure you love to talk about everything that you’re doing. That’s great. I love my plants. That is good. Now, what do you do with the sand? I see a bag of sand here. Oh, the sand actually helps um airrate the soil. Okay. So it allows the water to get through the soil and um be absorbed and that is what the uh the the nutrients is the main thing that you know helps in developing the soil with the microbes that the plants thrive on. So you know traditionally most people talk about uh NPK. You want to talk a little bit about that? Oh nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Yes. Yeah. So, um, as far as nutrients in general, just like we need vitamins to eat. So, like this I mean to eat to grow. This is my comp like where I make my compost tea. Okay. So, I I put like a lot of leaves, a lot of leaves, a lot of stems, whole bunch of banana leaves. I put um banana peels in there, eggshells in there. So I allow it to to absorb or break down the nutrients that was absorbed from that plant. Right. So see how So you’re not you’re not wasting any part of the plant. Not at all. Can I throw this in there? Yeah, you can actually. But um and I see how you have it protected so there’s no issues with the bugs, flies, bugs, no mosquitoes can get in there, eggs or anything like that. And you save your containers and repurpose just like I do. I save all all my containers. Yeah. So, this this will actually get cleared out once summer ends. Yeah. Once I end clear out all the pots and I’ll put my soil in there to Okay. Yeah, that’s a good way to restore for next year. So, two things I know um most gardeners have a a desire for is storage space as well as we’re hoarders. Huh? We’re hoarderers. No, I Well, to other people, yes. See, I see the logic behind it. Yeah. We see usefulness in a lot of things, right? Some people say that’s a whole lot of trash or just go buy another one, you know, when you need it. But um like for for for guys they say uh what is it a he shed she said she shed he shed s h e d like you know your own little spot and then a greenhouse. I want a combo. I want a greenhouse and a sheed so I could keep my store you know everything in one area you know. Exactly. But everything I like naturally to grow outdoors. green houses just to extend the season for the, you know, cooler weather, you know, and stuff like that. And you can keep a couple little things the year round in there. Maybe if you had like a citrus tree or something like that, right? I’mma ask you what your dream would be. Your dream garden. What we got over here? Uh, potatoes. I have three different types. I have purple, I have Idaho, and I have um what’s those little mini ones? baby potatoes. I don’t know. I’m not sure the name, but I actually was gifted those potatoes. They they actually came from Jamaica. Oh, wow. So, I have purple, red, and um brown or white. Okay. Now, can you tell us when you know that they’re ready to be harvest? Any signs that they give off? The leaves will start dying back some somewhat like onions. Okay. Yeah, onions when they they’ll start flowering or dying back the top leaves. Mhm. And then when it gets like this, sometimes you want to just put more soil on top. What they call healing. Mhm. Healing the potato is just adding more soil so it develops a stronger root structure at the bottom and more hopeful hopefully more potatoes. Indeed. And you have these in containers or grow bags? Grow bags. 10gon grow bags. Okay. So these are cloth. Uh, I don’t know what the fabric is, but it it helps also with the roots with the air circulation too with the grow bag. Helps keep um critters from coming in from the underneath. Yeah, indeed. Okay. And my last but not least, my dragon fruit, the grand finale. Yeah, she’s been with me for two years now. Okay. And I’m impressed that it’s holding up with your bamboo sticks. Yeah, she’s doing her thing. Now, um, have you propagated? I have. All of these different spots are propagated. Okay. Pieces. So, all I would do is cut this section right here. Let it dry out for maybe like two or three days. Well, before I let it dry out, I would nick it a little bit right here to kind of like start a stem or a root setting. Okay. And then I let it dry out for like a day or two. And then you can put it right into dirt. Perfect. Perfect. And then it takes how long you think uh before fruit develops? Uh it may take two or three years depending on the location of your plant cuz dragon fruit requires anywhere from 12 to 16 hours of sunlight. Oh boy. Okay. So even with it getting full sunlight during the day, it might not even be enough for it to flower, right? So it just gives a give it a a minute for it. Do you know um what kind it is or what are the two colors is yellow or three colors, right? Yellow, white, and like a red dragon fruit color on the inside. I haven’t seen white. I know I’ve seen red and yellow. Red and yellow. Okay. But this is yellow. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, I I am growing dragon fruit. Like I said, that was the one that I got from the big box store. And um I don’t know what it is. It’ll be a surprise whenever it gets to that point of fruiting. And I see you have your seed starts here. Yeah, I have some mirror goes in there. Um that’s just um seed starting dirt. So I just put it to the side just so when I start right planting more seeds, I already have it ready for So, are you going to change out your seasons in in this zone that we have 7A 7 I think 7A 7A or seven. Um, do you change out for the the season as far as growing winter crop or do you cover crop or what do you do you leave the containers out? No, I change I I switch over to winter on my winter garden. I keep most of my herbs my herbs stay year round. Yeah, cuz they’ll uh if they do die out, they’ll perennials, they’ll come back. Yeah. They grow from their root system, right? Yeah. So, I’ll switch out maybe like beginning of August. I’ll probably start my seeds maybe Yeah. beginning of August and it’ll be like kale, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage. I’ll probably You don’t do collard greens? No, I’ve done collards. Oh, I love collard greens. I’ve done collards. Okay. Okay. But I do all mines in pots, so I got to allow Oh, right. the the space and how it folds out and all. Yeah. But they do get a decent size. Maybe like this big. I didn’t really do well with uh cabbage because of And I got to be out there with the cabbage and Yeah. And then just picking them every day. Yeah. You got to be careful with those cuz they bury inside the leaves and they’ll eat it basically from the inside out. Yeah. Well, I’m impressed. This is awesome. You did a great job. use using the space that you have and I’m glad that the community welcomes you as well as the fact that you know I’m sure your neighbors know you well. Yeah. They and especially when it’s harvest time, right? Yeah. They come over and get with their plates and their containers. Uh oh. Now, and then also for you, I mean, you know, the fact that you’re uh eating what you grow. Yeah. Or growing what you like to eat, you know. I think that’s impressive. Okay. Well, I appreciate your time. Thank you for showing us your garden and sharing about 1acre planting. How can people reach you if they want to? Um, they can reach me on Instagram, 1accre planting. Um, also we have a website 1acreplanning.com. Okay. So, anytime you have any questions, reach out or have anybody that wants to start up a garden, you know, we we assist in that, too. That’s a lot of hard work. Yeah. So, you do the design part as well or the design, the groundwork, the from the beginning to the end. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, that matter then I’ll be reaching out to you, too. All right. All right. Well, I thank you guys. Uh this is uh Blake Brown from 1acre Planting. He has shared with us his garden and his interest in uh educating and sharing others through sharing with others uh about gardening through his 1acre planting. Thank you so much and I appreciate you guys joining us and stay abundantly rooted and grounded in love. [Music]