Do you pay attention to gardening trends?

We will be discussing forecasting some of the trends for Spring 2025 and whether this article accurately predicted them. What did you notice as breakout trends, and do you see anything emerging for gardeners in Fall 2025 or for planning the Spring 2026 growing season?

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I’ll go out and hear you. How weird. I don’t know why it’s doing that. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Whoop. There we go. For some reason, usually Streamyard will mute us during the countdown and today it decided not to. So, I had to mute us and then we showed up muted. Sorry about that everybody. Welcome in tonight. Appreciate you all. Thank you for being a sunseeker and coming over to South Florida Sunshine Tropicals. And tonight I had found an article and I thought it would be fun to just, you know, go over some of the article and um see if they were right in their predictions about what would be big this past spring. It’s kind of weird saying that because now you guys are out of spring. We still, you know, it feels like spring of course in South Florida almost all the time if you compare it to a northern spring. Um, but I want to welcome everybody in who came in and uh, thank you Miss Sharon for your gift. That was so sweet of you. They really help. I want to thank my members too her who are coming in. Thank you so much for your support of this channel and just sewing into this channel. We I just really appreciate it. really helps out. Um, I can do more things too on video and, you know, just spending more time with the channel when I have an income coming in from YouTube. Um, because I don’t know if many of you know it, but for a whole year I did not make a check because I really just I couldn’t put a lot into it. But if I can tell my my husband that I’m making a little money, he might like, “Okay, go do that.” Instead of making it like, “Oh, you’re doing that. We really need to do this.” instead. So, um, I want to welcome in Brenda Duncan 1900 Homestead. You were the first one in tonight. Um, and Homestead Aquarius, thank you for coming in. Appreciate you. Homestead Aquarius is one of our members. And Miss Sharon is one of our members and she gifted some memberships. I’ll have to see if I can see them. Like Diva and uh I know Shaunie are able to go over and look at those. Actually, Robin found them last time, but she said she’s had under a storm and the connection’s a little bit weird up there, but I thought it sounded good. And thank you, Ann’s Place for coming in. And of course, my co-host right now and um through our other evenings and over on Divas and sometimes we get up to go on Shaunie’s is Miss Robin Gardens. And if you’ve checked out her wonderful, she just had a video on all different types of potatoes that she grew. So, you’ll have to go over and check that video out. It’s pretty good. It’s pretty informative. I enjoyed it. And I was kind of like, why are you having our weather in Chicago land? Yeah, it’s crazy. I’m Hi, the Bud Files. Welcome in. That was actually that’s because there’s gonna be white stuff all too soon. Yes. Yeah, that’s true. A lot of people are like, “Oh, it’s so hot. I can’t wait.” And then they stop themselves. They’re like, “Well, although I know Shaunie, they enjoy the snow, I guess, because of the kids and getting to do things with the family.” Um, so she missed it last year when they barely got any. But I’m not a I’m not like that type of cold person. I can handle it a little bit, but not snow. So, one of the first things I’m going to say, this is from Good Housekeeping. I’m going to pull up the article so you guys can see what I’m referring to. It’s eight gardening trends you’re going to see everywhere this spring. And we’re going to see if they were correct. Now, you’ll forgive me. I am not watching the chat right this second. I am trying to sort out where I am on the Streamyard side. So their first one was more chaos and they have beautiful picture more chaos less organization. So um I’m always this way so I don’t know I don’t see it as a trend. It says, you know, you don’t have to necessarily have gardens that are orderly. Um, they talk about the plants running a mock in nature and gardening pros are expecting people to lean into the natural appearance by foregoing detailed planning and trusting the process more. It’s funny, that’s what she Junior says, trust the process. Uh, following the popularity of chaos gardening in the past year, we’re seeing a greater interest from gardeners in planting seeds and being surprised by what grows rather than meticulously planning your garden to yield specific results. Uh, I don’t know. What do you think of that, Robin? As far as like for annuals, you kind of have to have your plan going, but I So, how do you chaos works well for some things, you know, I mean, thinking vegetables because you can’t have things out compete each other, right? You could you could put uh carrot seed together with radish seed and maybe lettuce, you know, and pull the radishes out early. The lettuce, you know, cut and come again and then the the carrots would come through. But, you know, you just competition isn’t a vegetable’s friend. So, I don’t know. Right. Yeah. I’m thinking they’re thinking more like and I’ll show the beautiful picture. Hey Willow, welcome in. Good to see you. There’s a channel in South Carolina and she does a lot of chaos gardening with vegetables. Okay. Yeah, I’m curious like especially with root vegetables, I would imagine you have to have that kind of planned out because they really do need more input and space. But maybe not. Like, I don’t know. Maybe you deal with a small beat and the rest are pretty good size. But this is really what they’re showing as chaos. That still looks somewhat planned. It kind of looks planned to me. Even though it’s chaotic, it’s got grouping. So, it’s like they kind of planned it. Me. I I would say this is more my style also. Yeah. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of something else. But, you know, it it it looks kind of natural and so forth, but it it’s it’s planned. Yeah, it’s planned chaos, I would say, too. Like, I’ve Yeah, I’ve seen your garden and you have that. I love that. Where there’s a little bit of flowers and then you’ve got a vegetable and then you’ve got something else. And I I love that. And I love the different heights and everything in your garden. It’s beautiful. Absolutely. Um, the other thing we’re going to just kind of breeze through these. Uh, let me see. The other thing they were saying is, and we saw this with Shaunie, and we all were jealous of it because it looked like a Monae painting, an increase in wildflower gardening. Uh, I would say we’re seeing an increase in it. What What do you think as far as what you’re seeing in your neck of the woods with the wild flower gardening? Definitely. You see, you know, well, the first place you see it is on the seed shelves. Lots more uh combination packages of flowers and so forth um available um at all price points. And you are so correct about Shaunie’s um breathtaking. It was breathtaking. Absolutely. She has her butterfly garden. For those of you who haven’t gone over to Shaunie Grows, go and check out her channel. Um, she has a wild flower specific garden and then she also has a butterfly garden. Both are loaded with flowers and she’s done some shorts where she’s just kind of panned over her flowers. And as two people who have gone to art school, I I saw a lot of like that reminded me of Monae, like when Monae would paint and how he would have it just was that well, it was just so beautiful. I don’t know. I don’t know if you can say well done cuz she kind of said it was chaos. It was like just get the seed packets out there and let’s empty the seed packets, but it just didn’t look like it just looked beautiful. So, yeah, I’m going to have to try and do more. I know, like you said, I bought a selection that was a variety. Hey, Tour 101, welcome in. Um, it was an edible variety, but then I started reading them. I’m like, what are these are just herbs? flowering herbs. But here was their picture, an example of the lovely wildflower gardening. We don’t have poppies down here that I miss those when I go up north and I see the poppies in the center of some of the really long highways and into the mountains when I was up in New Hampshire. Oh, there she is. I know she’s doing she’s busy. Thank you. You’re welcome. You’re welcome. It’s so true, Shaunie. But we don’t have the red poppies growing anywhere down here. The California poppies that I’ve seen. Let me take that one off, too. Yeah. What were you going to say? I’m sorry. I’m sorry. The red gem blend, the pansies. Um, there was some shervel in there. Um, and it was it was nice. It kind of got me out of my box to, you know, put some flowers. Yeah, your garden’s beautiful, too. Like, I the more I see your channel and the more I see what you’ve got growing, it it’s just gorgeous. I love your style. Um down here, the flowers, it’s like they either do really well or they they don’t and they look terrible and they die off. I bet they’re probably eat them. You’re probably happier in your winter, right? Yes, they are. A lot of them are like the ntoriums are happier in our winter and they suffer when it starts to get our springtime and you guys are like growing them and they’re huge during springtime and I look up there and I’m like oh it’s so pretty. Mine look like they’re fried and they’re tasty. That peppery that peppery flavor. I love that. So tasty. Big bag of There we go. Here’s the advice. Just buy a really big bag of mixed wild flowers and broadcast them into the bare earth before rain. I’m telling you, it did not look It looked like you did, but it didn’t. It just looked like Monae rolled out one of those, you know, how they have those the roll out and you just supposed to water it and they never seem to come up like they promise. It’s like a sheet that you can roll out that has the seeds in it. Oh, yeah. I’ve seen that. Yeah. Yeah. And I’ I’ve tried it before as a beginning gardener and I was like, “Okay, I got like three and the rest, you know, the weeds came up through instead.” But that’s what it looked like, Shaunie. Like you just rolled out Monaet’s garden if you could order it and just watered it in and it came up so pretty. I can’t That’s the advice. Go ahead. I can’t find a picture, but um the garden meadow that I created for um the Door County kitchen garden Oh. had like was was a very planted out um meadow. Oh, that would be pretty. It wasn’t scattered. And I I picked the flowers specifically because they were helpful to the vegetables in one way or the other. They brought in like the parasitic wasps or the hoverflies or, you know, they had some quality um as well as being pretty and it it turned out marvelous. Yeah. Yeah. I want to see those pictures. Um Yeah. And and you’re dealing with a different environment over there in Turkey, too. More of a Mediterranean, very hot. And then I think do you guys get the cooler like evenings and then you you do have kind of a winter, right? Or am I wrong? I’m just going off of like you hanging out with us and what I can remember and the memory isn’t always that great. But the the next one is actually kind of for you, Ann, with some of the plants that they’re showing. And let me bring up the banner. Adopting environmental conditions into your garden. And basically making sure you’re planning with them. And for their picture, they have a lot of beautiful succulents um which might serve you well. And um some of the things like we grow here might serve you well too. Ann except for actually Kevin. Um Oh, did I do that wrong again? Is it Kevin? It’s not Kevin. Where where’s my Shaunie? It is Kevin because we call him Kevin and Eric because he has one name when he shaves and one name when he keeps a beard. He’s he’s epic gardening. Yeah, epic gardening. Eric Kevin. We call him both. Um and then there’s Jacques, his you know his side faithful side. and FA. Yeah, Faithful Tidekick. But his climate in San Diego might be closer to what you can grow. Um because it is more Mediterranean than mine. Mine’s more tropical. Let me see. We had extra warm summer with no less than seven. Oh, seven heat waves. No, thank you. I’m so sorry. Seven heat waves sound awful. Yes, thank you is the true name. I I I got it right and then I was like, is that right or is it? cuz I always call him Eric by accident. Oh, it’s beautiful. Hold on. Let me make you big. Um, where is it? Oh, it’s not letting me do it. Hold on. Let me see if I have to do a setting. Maybe. Nope. Not me. Come on. No. Oh, there it did it. Wait a minute. Let me go back to that. And I’ll just So that that’s the kitchen garden in July when the poppies were, you know, taking over. And then when the poppies faded, the most dominant flower in there was the zenas um which aren’t showing anything but green at that point. Um but there’s alysum, there was purple salvia, there was you know again I I chose them primarily because of their their function to draw in good stuff for the vegetables. Right. Right. Right. And hopefully out maneuver the baddies that come in. I know. And there were so many baddies this spring. That’s one thing. I don’t know if that’s on the list. I can’t remember. Um, actually further down the list is what you were hinting on. I think that is. Let me see. No, I don’t see it now. Oh, hold on. I’m looking at the list trying to see something. But this is the other one is using bold colors in the garden was going to be popular. I always like bold colors, but I also like rotating through like trying maybe a plant that like a couple plants that have that same color and then for a while they had and I wanted to try them but they really weren’t going with my zone where they were having all these different black varieties of flowers and black varieties tomatoes and I really wanted but it just wasn’t panning out for my garden. Um, but yes, the use of both colors. This one uses like the colors. I love the reds and the hot pinks, but that’s just beautiful. Like snap dragons in there somewhere. Maybe some salvia. So pretty. I’ve gone the garden center with a plan. You know, I think it’s going to be primarily peach and purple. that’s new and then it’s like goes to heck in hand basket as soon as I see oh proven winners has the new blah blah blah I think I need one of those and you know oh look at this one. Yes. Yeah. I can never stick to a plan either once I see which ones are actually looking fantastic and then I’m like okay I’m gonna have to scrap my plan because that that’s just not going to work. Yeah. Especially if you need something right away that’s kind of blooming just to brighten it up. I know. Isn’t that gorgeous, Ann? I don’t know if that’s for our zones though. Maybe in winter. Maybe in winter. The ones in the back look like Dalia, the tall ones in in the plant. They brought it in like that annual salvia. Yeah, salvia does okay here until it just doesn’t in the middle zone there though. Fox comb or what is that one? I know it’s not big enough to tell. Let me see. Yeah. Salosia or something like that. Salosia. Okay. So then yeah, some of those we could grow in our spring, but our spring is like end of yours like our spring flowers. Mhm. Oh, how weird. Yeah, stream’s being strange tonight, too, cuz it just blotted out Ann’s gorgeous on my side chat, guys. So, and before when I was opening YouTube tonight, it put up my video and just my icon and all the writing was down like here and this was all black on YouTube side. So, wow. What’s going on? Yeah. So, it might be I always I always envy people who can do this with just perennials, you know? So, you’ve got this perennial going, it fades, and then this one takes over, and you know, they time that so well. I I have perennials like that, but I always have to stick few annuals here and there to kind of fill in and keep it going. Yeah, that might have had a little help or something. I I was looking at that too, Tor, the grass looks like golf course green where I know I don’t know. It’s uh La La Land in you know this magazine. Grab these pictures. It’s funny cuz I saw one of the pictures and I was like, “Okay, you’re using stock photos because that’s not even I know what it is. It’s coming up and I’ll you’ll see it too as a gardener.” Um Oh, red’s one of your favorites. That’s my daughter’s. She was like the quietest little girl. And then once she I was like, “What’s your fa what’s your favorite color, Hannah?” And she like pointed to it. She’s like, you know, she just pointed to it. She couldn’t even like say it at that point. It was just like like red. Oh, there’s a little spiciness in there. You are like your mama. So cute. That’s why I can’t get rid of the wild Oh, wait a minute. I’m reading it. Ann says, “That’s why I can’t get rid of the wild rose bush in my garden. It has beautiful tiny.” Oh, yeah. Then don’t. Why would you? No. Garden around it. Keep it. Absolutely. I wouldn’t get rid of things that are doing well. I might move them if I can possibly, but if they’re doing really well and they’re beneficial, keep it as my especially if it’s surviving without me, keep it. Especially if it’s producing fruit, keep it. Let me get on to the next picture here. Oh my goodness, there’s just too many things I have open at one time. So, I’m clicking around and getting lost in all the clicks. All right. So then the next one is tapping into nostalgia. Now that one I need to go to the actual article. Hold on and scroll down to that and see what they’re really talking about. I have a beautiful picture to share. But let’s see. Trends tend to repeat themselves. Some say fashion trends have a 20-year cycle and gardening is no stranger to that repetition. As nostalgia continues to influence design trends, aesthetics like cottage core will remain popular as well. Um, Sears says she expects gardeners to plant more traditional favorites like poppy, cornflour, and notorium. You can even buy a cottage garden mix to make it easier. Yay. Uh, cottage style gardens bring back nostalgic memories to the popular styles of past generations, especially of people’s grandparents and parents. Um, and then the 50s saw tons of brightly colored flowers, garden gnomes, and the 60s popular popularized informal gardens with natural aesthetics. So, tapping into nostalgia of the cottage style gardens and informal natural gardens with wild flowers are expected to make a comeback, I would say. Yeah, that that definitely happened. We even have a cottage gardener down here in Florida. She’s got it like a cottage style garden, but it’s with all um like what you said, she does it with kind of perennials and then pops a few annuals in there, but they’re for our warm climate. Now, there’s the nostalgia garden example that they give and then it’s got a nice really pretty wood wood archway in the background that probably be hard to see if you’re on a phone. Oh, hi Pas Mquati. Welcome in hun. So even uh on the vegetable side, nostalgia’s um come around again and again. Uh the victory garden and the victory garden format um was kind of had a resurgence, let’s say four or five years ago, right? And um I would almost imagine that it might make another resurgence because of the um push for food security. Yes, I agree. I agree. Yeah, I think right around the time I started watching Jess from Roots and Refuge is when I was trying to come back to the garden. I had tried a victory garden in my garden, which is very was the wrong time to try and do the victory plants uh 10 years ago. It’s probably actually now closer to 13. Uh but it was like right around the time when we moved in. after I was done working on the house. I wanted to get a garden started and I wanted to do a victory garden like my my grandparents did. And um yeah, that was my whole experience with tomatoes and doing them at the wrong time and them getting eaten and the hornworms eating them alive. That’s why when I saw Jess with that, it was either her or somebody else who had the flashlight you mentioned on your channel when we were talking. Yep. Hers was the first place I ever saw it. And I I found it after you you and I were messaging. I’m like, I need to find where I put that cuz Malachi grabs it and then he’s got it and then I put it up somewhere and then I forget where I put it because it’s out of sight. Uh I didn’t get a chance to go out with it tonight, but I’m going to maybe after the live or I’m going to tomorrow night and see what comes up. It is kind of working, but I thought it would be more like ultraviolet. And for those of you who don’t know what we’re talking about, you use an ultraviolet flashlight like Let me see if I can do it off because it’s really it’s got a flash setting, right? It’s like the blue light where you’re you know what is it? Boots cats and boots when you used to maybe go out to the bar or dancing and maybe that wasn’t a part of your life. I’m sorry that’s all I can relate to. Maybe roller skating and your laces would glow or anything white would glow on you. Well, it does the same thing to horn worms and certain bugs, so you can find them easier at night in the garden and pick them off your plants before they do too much damage. Um, the ones that at the time I knew not to try corn as my dad had already told me it doesn’t grow well here, although I think it’s one of our Florida crops, so I don’t know what they do to make it grow. Uh, tomatoes was big. It was uh peas. I don’t know if it was green beans, corn, um I can’t remember right now, Miss Sharon. Those were the main ones. Like it was green beans, tomatoes, corn, uh peas, carrots, like all the typical that you would go to the grocery store for to make meals. Like it’s none of the wild ones like that I have to grow, you know, like my yams from, you know, Africa and Asia. You definitely need a blue light. Yeah, Jan, they help us down here, right? Yes, the peppers I need. That’s exactly where I was going to go with mine. My jalapeno peppers cuz my jalapeno peppers are only getting this big, but I was going to show and I didn’t bring them in here. I just brought in my my Barbados. Here’s my I didn’t even do my showing. Here’s a vic here’s an a image of a victory garden of five also. Okay, I’ll bring it up. It’s not popping up. Come on. There you go. Oh, it’s really hard to see. Yeah. Is there any way to click on the picture to make the picture larger and then share that instead where it says it at the top again? There. Oh, okay. Let me see if I can make it bigger. No. Oh, it went away. Where did it go? I don’t know. I think we need Shaunie. No, you did fine. Please welcome to the stage, Miss Diva. in the dark. Hey, I was going to bring you up. Hey, I bring myself up. Is it? Oh, okay. Wait, there it is. Yes, that’s fine. There we go. There we go. It’s not giving me Okay. Wait, there’s the maximized. Yeah, it’s not it’s it’s tiny. Maybe you could read some of those off to us, Robin, since we’ve got it. This one’s kind of the most um circulated uh victory garden format. It’s a 25 by 50 plot and then they they tell you, you know, how much of each and what you should put in and then what succession to follow it. So like onions followed by lettuce, lettuce followed by spinach, beets followed by collards, collards followed by beets, um onions followed by parsley and mixed herbs. And then, you know, there’s also like broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, bush beans, parsnips. Um, wow. And it’s it’s very specific. And this is, you know, intended to feed a family of five in a 25 by 50 plot. Really, really nice. And I just saw Jana said that her and her here, let me take this down. Her and I think it was her green. What did Wait a minute. I can’t. I’m hitting the wrong button. There we go. The kids and I harvested our sweet potatoes last week. Sweet potato French fries tomorrow. Yummy. Sorry, Marine. I heard Marissa and I was trying to hear Robin. I couldn’t. That’s why I wasn’t muting you to be mean. I’m not like that. Oh, okay. Sorry about that. Yeah. Okay. Oh, usually they’re not that loud, but I think they’re Well, they’re they’re canning. time. Oh, her friend is over and they’re counting in the kitchen. Awesome. I have not had sweet potatoes in years. Not a veggie you find here. I’m surprised. I’m surprised they don’t grow up there. Maybe it’s the soil that’s there, huh? In such a warm climate, that’s kind of surprising. Well, we were like going through. Let’s see what banner we hold on. Let me find it. Tapping into nostalgia we did. And then Robin just showed us that was great for the victory garden. I didn’t realize there was so many vegetables because it was over like 13 years ago when I tried some of them. Um, okay. Here’s the next one. Prioritizing echofriendly gardening methods would be big. Uh, I think that was kind of big and we’ve like some of our channels have talked about that. Uh, hold on, let me find the picture for that one. But oh, this is the one I said. You guys are going to know this is a stock picture when you see it cuz we’re talking about spring gardening. Wait till you see it. Do those look like spring crops. She’s got all those looks like cooler. Oh yes, those carrots very much so. Here that wouldn’t survive for spring. It even says on the picture itself even says it that it’s a fall fall crop autumn harvest royaltyree image and it was in their article. Um so I guess it is from spring. It’s just you’re harvesting in autumn. Okay, I’ll I’ll give them that. Yeah, it counts down here. That that would not be our harvest but you know Florida’s way different. But the um prioritizing echofriendly uh I do believe you’re seeing a lot more people lean towards getting away from plastics and things like that, organic, you know, gardening, eliminating the use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, uh which can have negative impacts on the environment, especially waterways and lakes and rivers and on humans health. uh you know cuz people too are eating more or organically and then just even living more sustainably environmental friendly um you know choices like Div and I have talked about even in our clothes trying to get away from polyesters and plastics in our clothes uh that it’s even better for your body to remove those and then switching over from you know like plastic dinner, anything like storage wear to stainless steel and glass. We’ve talked about that, too. Oh, thank you, Shnie. Look at you in the side chat even dropping this stuff. Love you. I would I would like to see more Americans stop using um styrofoam and paper plates for their everyday meals. It’s just so bad. I hate that when they said I just actually got something and I was really upset about it that they packed it in styrofoam. I was like not happy about it. No, I when I visit this was many years ago I visited my family down in um Jacksonville, Florida and also when we were in Mississippi. Now granted when it’s a big crowd of people I understand, you know, you got to do the paper plates, you know, you got we’re feeding 30 40 people, right? But this was I’m in in my cousin’s home and they’ve got dishes in the cabinet. They’re all there. But they um you know any meal that they’re having it was styrofoam plates. And coming from um a very very um recycling community here on the island and and like cuz we do we do bottle returns. So you get 10 cents for every single bottle you return. And they were throwing the water bottles all into the fire and the styrofoam into the and it was like at my cousin’s one it was like burn it afterwards. That’s so gross. Okay, that down where I am that doesn’t happen as much I would say in the south because we are just so more water oriented. Like we’re so close to water but you will see it like solo cups are real big in the south. Like that’s a thing. Like the solo cup is a thing. Um, and solo plates. But with my parents, what you would do, you wouldn’t throw those away. No, no, no, no. They go in the dishwasher and you use them again. You recycle the solo plate. Like, no. No. They’re They’re the more expensive disposables. We’ll just put those in the dishwasher. Yeah. Yeah. I think they shouldn’t even be allowed to make styrofoam anymore. Yeah. Styrofoam plates. They shouldn’t even be allowed. No. Anyway, sorry for that little that little side rabbit trail. Totally welcomed. I don’t buy that stuff. I’d rather wash. The other eco thing that’s um popular is to recycle in the garden, right? Um yes, you know, recycling various things to plant in, repurposing, um upycling. Yes. Um, that was actually going to be a new segment because Diva has her show and tell and I was like, well, I can’t call mine show and tell, but I kind of do a little show and tell here and there, but mine is more like I eat stuff. I show you what I bought for the I show and eat. I show and eat. And I do have stuff here. I have something here that I was going to eat. Um, we’re going to show things I bought for the garden. So, I was like, “Well, it’s going to be like a bought, recycle, reuse segment, like I think we’ll do and then the eating will be something else.” But, um, yeah, I’ve noticed that too, Robin. And I I keep driving by this mattress um base or an old mattress actually. It’s got springs and that’s all that’s left is it’s just a wall of springs. And I keep looking at that, I’m thinking, why hasn’t a gardener taken that? Like I can’t take it in my car that I have, but because it’s like a queen or a full and I’m like, why is that still there every time I drive by it and it’s behind like this? I don’t know if it was like a garbage receptacle. I don’t know what was there before, but it’s just standing there and it’s still there. Yeah. I’m like, “Somebody take that for vining plants, please.” Exactly. It would be brilliant. I might I should put a sign on it. My I’m I’m up at the Wisconsin place and my brother my brother was up here with with his wife and some of her family and he went to the you know the the the garbage place and tossed out the garbage and a guy was putting a bed frame and so he texted me right away do you want this? Do you want this? I’m like, absolutely. You know, so saved it from the garbage and it’ll, you know, it’ll be a feature up here, right? Yes. Recycling in the garden. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t I don’t use star either. When I’ve Yeah. Go ahead. I have um we’ve picked up uh like a head headboard and a footboard um and then uh sanded it down and then basically ba made it into um two benches, Marissa and I. And so when I do see, you know, somebody’s throwing those out, it’s like you just have to have the seat. All your legs are done. And so you just have to, you know, and so now you’ve got, you know, restain it so that it can be out in the elements. And now you’ve got yourself a beautiful repurposed bench. So we’ve done we’ve made two two benches with backs and then just a um just a regular uh like a picnic bench type thing. just just a square like just a rectangle um that we have out in the front front for and it’s just great when you’re in the middle of gardening go I think I’d like to sit so I I have I think at least one maybe two more bed frames in my studio that I need to get to and they’ve been there for a few years anyway I know I have those projects all over um above crown pool ladder that’s my that’s kind of cool I remember those that’s fantastic that’s a great reuse I like that. Yeah. Yep. And you’re reusing the ice cream containers for your hydroponic tomatoes is a really cool idea, too, Janet. I like that. I’ve seen people do that with food grade. It’s food grade plastic. Yep. Food grade plastic. I’ve seen that with the frosting um containers from bakeries. I’m surprised you don’t have any ceramic though. Some people are going back to ceramic like the natural ceramics. T-Bore, you got rid of the ceramic coatings, huh? Hm. Yeah. I know some of them, the older ceramics, Yeah. they can have heavy metals in them, so you have to be careful. Yeah. I I don’t buy any with the ceramic coatings. Yeah. Myself. But yeah, there’s so many things that you can do as just as as practical things or even for decor. But, you know, everybody thinks, well, I got to have all of these fancy little, you know, things. And it’s like, nope. I I buy um my five gallon buckets. They’re used um I think they’re used for they’re used at the dairy plant and so so again they’re food grade and they’ve only had like some of them smell like orange or smell like lemon like so it’s a a flavoring of some sort and I get the buckets like for 250 each and you know and you go I can drill holes and now I can I can just grow in that bucket rather than spending you know $10 at the the orange or the blue store, Right. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. And reusing that. Um here’s the picture for the next one. The gardening and I know Shaunie and I have talked about this and Diva’s hit on it too is gardening to improve mental health. And Shaunie’s done stuff about you know the the gardening in your brain. And I’ve done things like that too. But, you know, I can’t ever remember like she does how she could just be like, “And I have a live on.” I don’t know. I’ve been doing this for I don’t know, seems like six years now, I think, and I don’t remember what my lives are about. Just go check them out. Once they’re out, it frees up space up here. So, I I don’t remember it anymore so I can go on to my next thing. Yeah. Shnie goes and and and Shaunie what she does is she um when it’s not her live when she’s on ours she’ll she’ll go and find that video and she finds it pretty fast and then puts it up which is awesome. That’s true. She’ll do that too. I get frost Yeah. I bet it smells really good too when you get the frosting buckets for free. Oh, it’ll eventually come off from the heating cycles. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. If you’re putting it in your dishwasher, but I’m watching people who are using like handformed clay and and things like that like and the I don’t know. No, I’m too much. I took pottery. I can’t just No. No. To ceramics. That just seems wrong. No, it’s from the earth. Just seems wrong. It’s a It’s the um not there yet because they had lead in them. Yes, it’s the old one. Yes, the glazes could have some interesting things in them. I will give him that. Hey, Cece. Welcome. I definitely say the the the garden is an absolute benefit for my personal mental health. Whenever I’m struggling or having a a bad time, I just need to go out and sit in my happy place and you know, I get a lift. Yes. How about you, Diva? Nope. No. No. Tired of it. Just like too much work. Too much for me to see what I need to to do. Um, you know, probably a a good way for my mental health is when I go out and um let the chickens out, you know, and spend time with them. That would that’s something that would improve my mental health. I I would say it probably does improve um my mental health, but in my like what I’m experiencing at the moment, it’s not something that that I go um yeah, you know, if my garden was all intact, you know, few little weeds here and there, that’s fine. But what’s you know, what’s going on in my gardens right now is like what’s going on in my head. So, no. Gotcha. Oh, there you go. Right there. should just put it up. Protect your brain health. There you go. They do talk about putting your hands in the soil and and Shnie has talked about that too that it’s actually scientific that there are bacteria that comes from the soil that go and help our serotonin in our brain. Um, and working with plants is proven to help with stress management, depression, and anxiety. Uh, gardening helps you get the physical benefits of moving around and using your body while soaking up. And I know D and I have mentioned this. You get the sun too, uh, vital nutrients from the soil and the sun. Um, and especially as you get older, you need that vitamin D from the sun. So don’t don’t dip yourself in anything to get rid of that because that goes right into your bloodstream and that’s a whole another life. Um, find a way to protect yourself, but careful with all that slathering on of stuff. Um, growing your own flowers and produce also provides beautiful blooms to brighten up your space and fresh, delicious food to fuel yourself and your loved ones. I like that. And I think we saw a movement towards that that people wanted to handle some of their stress with foods in the garden and with their garden, spending time in the garden. Oh, Jake came in. Hey, J3GS. There’s the healing garden. Thank you, Shaunie. I heard Diva say you put it up. A that’s sweet. Thank you, Jigs. But um let me go on to the next one and then we can chitchat after and then I wanted to last one. So go ahead, Diva. No, I I I think I should have brought it up with the last one, but no, I can address it when when we’re finished. Okay. Um Okay. Yeah, we’re almost This is the last one. The last one is native plants in place of yards. And it I think they mean like in place of grass because your yard’s still going to be there. It’s basically replacing and they do they go on to say replacing clean cut lawns or sections of the yard with native plants. And you can just uh search like we talked about on my live about your um university extension. You can search there your native plants that you can put into your landscaping and you can look up native plant landscaping for your area or your state. Um or native plant gardening and backyard biodiversity. Sometimes you can even get a certificate if you do really well from your extension service um your local extensions. They’ll come and they’ll verify your yard as a native um landscape or a native yard or even a butterfly. um pollinating yard. Like they have all these little like encouraging ways to get people to grow something other than a than just grass, which I thought was nice. And I thought we saw, in my opinion, we saw that happen um this year. I think they were right about that, too. What about you guys? Did you see a lot of that in your area or did you feel that gardening like you wanted to pull in some more natives? You know, I I don’t have many natives in my yard. Um I have one, two, three, four. I have five that I know of in plants or plant types in my yard. I would I would like to have more. As a matter of fact, today um with the seed library group, I was in a meeting and uh there’s a a couple that have converted their whole yard into natives up here and very into it. Um and the seed library gives out uh native seeds um native plant seeds as well. But you know, one of the things about growing natives from seed is it it takes a little more patience. They are a little harder to get established, but once they’re established, you know, they’re they’re pretty tough. Yeah. Yeah. They hang on. A lot of them have to be um cold stratified. So you have to, you know, put them in the refrigerator or sprinkle them out in the winter time or when you sew them for your zone. Are you talking about as far as for the northern zones? Because Yeah. For right for native for the native plants up here. Probably even in Moren, you probably have some natives too that need to be cold stratified. right in your zone. Possibly. Possibly. Definitely for Shaunie and I. Definitely. Yeah. For those watching for the first time and meeting Rob Robin Gardens, she’s in Chicago land and that’s what she’s referring to up into that area. Um when you’re looking at your neative native plants, you need to cold stratify them. I know if we grow stone fruit down here, if we hope to, uh, you stratify those. And that’s the same thing, I believe, with our garlic, we have to stratify it. Uh, lavender would require it, but I’ve never seen it grow here, except for at the big box stores, and then you bring it home and it’s like, why’d you buy me? Because I’m just gonna die in like two weeks. No matter what you try to keep me alive. Yeah. Oh, Shnie. native dam. I’m just a a fresh shirt. My camera. Oh, cheaply plant place. What? What do you mean cheaply? You mean like plastic like the you see sometimes in older neighborhoods they just put out plastic picks? No, that would kill you. Seizing. H. Oh, okay. Clover in the grass. Native dandelions. Hey, there you go. Dandelions are native and there and you can use them. Absolutely. Teas and everything. Medicine. I absolutely have more um natives then because I have dandelions and clover and violet. Yes, personal. We’ll personally grow there. Shaunie, we we love our pelane ear. Yep. Yep. We see it every time we turn over our soil. Well, that concludes just that. I think they were pretty much right on the money. They they got a lot of the right for this year. So, that was from Good Housekeeping and that was the trends for spring. I’m I’m interested to see what they’ll do for autumn to see where uh they think a like we’re heading for, you know, our fall plants and winter crops. But I then going to pull that down and diva, what were you going to mention about the I think I think it was right. I think you know talking about that um the victory garden and just you know seeing the the differences in people over these last um few years where they are growing more and I was just uh I had been I think I was talking about it last week with you ladies backstage was um you know there is a a really you know there is a need out there for people who maybe don’t want to garden. They work full-time and so you could, you know, do different levels of garden consulting. So even if you go, I’m just going to set you up, you know, you have a price for um a garden bed that’s going to have some of those things that they could have um just like a kitchen garden with some herbs and some fresh lettuce, cut and come again, some spinach, whatever they want. And then set it up for them. um either set it up or even just bring them the items because that’s you know they go there is a billion-dollar industry that the orange you know the orange box store the blue box store and the big big box store and uh that they all get and it’s like why not start yourself a small business where you’re actually helping people you know bring food to their own homes make helping them make small victory gardens um and that yes they have to water their Like there is a there is a I took that lady. No, no, you’re not caring for it. You’re just No, you’re not caring for it. Yeah. Although you can offer that if they’re close by as an add-on. Um the way she makes a lot of money, that lady who teaches that course is she ended up designing a lot of her stuff and it’s got like a 300% markup. Um like her archways and things that she sells along with. But it’s a great idea because like you said, there’s and just like what you were going to do with the salsa, the small salsa gardens, like now that you’ve made your salsa out of what you’ve grown, you’ll be able to start timing it to where you can make smaller gardens for people to take home with their starts. Yeah. And have a salsa garden. Yes, they are. Victory Gardens are back, baby. Hey, welcome in both life in the garden. So tonight, uh, the edible that I have, some of you have already seen before, but I saw it and some people haven’t seen it. This fruit here, [Music] this little fruit here or no, nope, not dragon fruit. But hey, that’s a good name for it because it’s really weird. Thank you, Miss Stea. Uh, any other guesses from the side chat? Because some of you have seen me, I think, pull this bow tie probably knows what this is. This is called a Rambutton. And it’s like a luchi. Rambo. Uhhuh. You bite it, pop it open, and then you’ve got it’s almost the texture of a skinless grape. Um, wow. Lees have like a rose. So even when you’re when you’re going to when you go to bite it, it’s not weird to have all that prickly in your mouth. It’s soft. It’s not hard. You can still do it with a knife, but I didn’t have my knife out. I had my mouth. I always have my mouth. You always have your mouth. That’s great. You know, don’t always have my little pocket knife, but my mouth is always handy. When you say things and realize, don’t leave home without it. One thing, if you find these in the store and you pick them, make sure the outside is not all going like brown. You want them to still kind of have the red fleshy kind of outside look. If they’re turning brown, they’re getting bad on the inside. Um, I would say that these don’t have as much flavor, but it could be because they were shipped here. They’re not homegrown as luchi. Luchi grows here. I’m trying to find out where. Oh, it says it. Guatemala. These were at the I agree. Storm Storm, right? It does. Storm says it looks like it grows in the ocean. It does. It really does. It’s pretty fleshy though. Oh, there’s the seed flesh ratio. Just hold it there for a second so we can focus on this. She forgot her knife. And Shnie Shnie had her mouth. She had her mouth with her as well. That was good. Good thing she had her mouth. I’m dying. The Logans are um smaller Shaunie than the Liuchi or the Rambutan. Logan has also when you eat a Logan, it’s thin and the shell is more like crumbly. Like it can just crumble kind of like a dried leaf compared to something like this. This is thicker. I’ll show you the skin. And usually I think these were imported originally. I thought they were imported originally from India because a lot of the families who are from We can take me off. You can bring everybody. How did you do that? bring everybody back up. Um the families from India were very familiar with this fruit uh that are local like our local families who have moved from India knew about ramp. So Janet is I am a no to that fruit and Miss Sharon is says looks like something that I would not put into my mouth and Shnie wants to know what you’re going to do with the skin. And Miss Sharon again, she doubles doubled down on her comment saying, “Nope.” Probably can go right into a hole in my backyard, Shaunie. It’s just like, you know, any kind of other fruit waste. Okay. The other thing I I prefer luchi, too, because they don’t the seeds don’t peel. Like sometimes the inner seed on the rambutan will leave like that inside and I don’t like that. But I just thought it would be a neat one for people who hadn’t seen it. It’s still got a lot of flesh to it. It’s so unusual. It’s not something I usually I bought that for you guys so you guys could see it. Um the mango steeen was bought for me when I did that one. Mango steeen’s delicious. This is the show and eat portion of of the live. Show and eat. I think I taste it, but I definitely would use a knife to go through the Oh, I I just I was like, you know what? Let me just get through this. I don’t know. I just wasn’t thinking knife. I was thinking I have a mouth. Let me use my mouth. Um, and I rinsed them before. The other thing for what I bought, but I didn’t really buy because I’m in that Vine program now on Amazon. You guys have to see this weird pitchfork. I’m so glad I got a pitchfork. But wait till you see it. It’s the strangest thing. You guys tell me if you ever got one that has tines that look like this. Wow. Yeah, it doesn’t have a handle yet. I haven’t put it together, but these are the tines. The most uh I’m not sure if I’m going to trust this job on the welding. It should be okay, but it looks a little janky would be my word. Janky welding. Let me put you up. Here’s the janky. Let me make Let me make you be blow me up. That is some janky. Here is Oh, wow. Isn’t that funky? But I got it because I was thinking very nice decoration. Yeah. For lead fridge for my bulbed plants. Like it won’t hurt them as much as maybe my regular uh fork. How How does it um go into the handle? Um um it’s one of those ones that looks like it’s going to pop in. I haven’t put it together yet cuz I have to show all this stuff in my pictures, Robin. Oh, no. It’s got screws. It’s got screws and nuts. Nuts and screws. So, it comes with a little Okay. Yeah. Nuts and bolts. Nuts and bolts. And a little tool. And then it’s got the handle’s kind of nice though. The handle has like got a little control leverage there. We’ll see how it works. I’ll probably do a short on it. They don’t require me to do anything like that, but it does it’ll end up going together here. Sorry, David. It’ll look like that. Well, the tines are very interesting because they’re crossed, right? And then, you know, forked. That’s cool. Yes. So, it’s kind of like for lifting, maybe for picking things up. Like, if you’re trying to not totally take it out or harm it, I would think this would be like a more delicate uh fork to use. Like, I mean, for a delicate situation, that would be the fork to use. Uh the other thing I got um which I don’t have in here, I got a broad fork, but it’s nothing like the meadow creature from David the Good. It’s, you know, like it’s cheaper cousin. What? Wait, what? What did I miss? I shared a snippet of my discovery on my post page. It was kind of funny. It actually said a prayer for me. Oh, I’m missing side chat comments over here. What? So, so your broad fork, is it one of those ones that’s short or is it, you know, why the broad fork? All right, hold on. Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll go get the the top of it at least so I can show you it. Yeah, I don’t know why I didn’t break it in here. You know, those those uh broadks are very interesting and the little the little mini ones I think are particularly interesting because you could get them in between things to, you know, Oh, no. This is wider. I’ll bring it. You’ll see it. It’s not as big as like what I’ve seen David the Good use before, but I’m still happy about it. I almost removed myself. [Laughter] So, did you do anything fun today, Moren? Nope. Nope. I didn’t do anything fun. I uh I made made bread and I had I have one uh one of the students that comes like I’m a I’m a contractor to the conservatory that goes through the the college. So, I have one student that comes and then because we we’ve been doing or this past week I took out um about six or eight bags of tomatoes out of the freezer and boiled them all up and then I made a batch of tikka masala again. And then also I came I found a a different ketchup recipe, but I um I’ve made the ketchup and it is so good. It tastes like um it reminds me of of diner ketchup like from when we were kids. Oh. And um very very little um ingredients and and then um so that’s being that’s going to be um uh canned tonight too. Like they’re doing u my daughter’s friend Sydney is over here and she made this. She’s she was going to make bone broth, but she ended up turning it into a beef stock. And so they’re canning that up for her and then they’re going to can up the the ketchup. Um Great. So it’s Yeah. So and then and then I’m here. So it was just, you know, a typical busy Friday where it’s it’s like it I don’t I don’t stop. So um I did do a huge picking of tomatoes. So, it’s like, sure, we took all of them out of the out of the um the fridge freezer, and I took some out of the deep freeze. And then what was in the deep freeze was eight more bags of tomatoes. So, those went into the white the white fridge. And now in my living room is another three boxes of uh ripening tomatoes. Oh, wow. And so, we have still more tomatoes out at the farm. So, it’s a Yeah. Yeah. And I brought in five big um five big Georgia candy roasters. I didn’t I the my wagon was almost completely full of tomatoes that it was like I can only take what is that is what desperately needs to come now. Um so there is probably another five cush out there and it’s like I can’t take you. There’s I like there’s just no way I can get it all into the my thing. So, so yeah, there’s more tiny. Are they huge kushas? Yeah, like similar similar to what I’ve been bringing in the you know that between 9 and 13 pounds. Wow. So, they’re still babies like toddlers. Toddler uh just Yeah. Like just like little babies. Yeah. So, you know, we’re we’re Oh, so one thing I did do because because I had done um Morris had done the salsa while I was gone and she had done some grape juice. She and so it was still sitting on the counter. the tikka masala was in the in and so then I I um went and start started reorganizing my larder because you go we’re going to be bringing in probably another um I don’t know 50 60 jars in the next couple of weeks and so it’s like I need to go through through and reorganize and see what oh what do we have what don’t we have and um so and so here is another interesting thing um Sure. You know, actually, I’ll talk about it on my live tomorrow. It’s fine. Just about canning and stuff. What do you got there, Miss Carol? This is the broad fork. So, it’s in between. It’s it’s that it’s exactly that big. That’s the broad fork. That’s big. That’s a big one. And as I was coming in, I’m so glad I had myself muted because you would have heard some four-letter words because the thing dropped right on my toe. Oh, no. It wasn’t the whole thing. Thank God. heavy. Like these are the parts. I haven’t taken it apart until I can take pictures. I don’t take it apart. Is it It’s a It’s a two handler one. The handle actually Yes, it’s a two- handler. And this handle came out of the plastic and went bam. Right. Oh, at least it wasn’t the chines. Yes. Thank God. Oh my gosh. No. I would be like, I gotta go if it was a fine. Yeah. Ouch. I have to go to the hospital now. I would like one of those one of those porks. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it there. I was like, “Yes, I’ll take that. Hurry up and take that because stuff goes so fast. It’s really good.” Um, I saw this, David. And then that’s why I was showing these while you were chatting because I saw his There’s our our huge bowl today, David. And I threw out some of these because I think uh my little guy is going up and going and putting it back in the bowl like taking a little nibble and cuz I I found and he’s done that before when I’ve had a bowl of fruit. It’s like I just find an apple and it’s got a full mouth like of teeth in there and I’m like, “Oh, who could have done that?” Definitely not my husband. Yeah, Hannah knows better. Malachi, badass sting, welcome in 93. He said he’s going to work on that sports car while he’s listening. Don’t rub it in. What? I don’t know if I said wagon. Wagan, right? Wagan. Wag. I think that’s how you say it. Wagan. Wagan. But is it Wagan? Wagan. Wagon. I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah. And uh Janet wants to know, Dave, did you eat your Yes. How did you string beans? Yes. How’ you Oh, he did say he replied. We did. I ended up having a couple yard long beans and I found a second bean shortly after the first one. So, everybody got to eat that day. How nice. I was actually trying to pull uh pull video off of my security camera because I actually did get outside today, which I haven’t been able to much because we keep getting rain. And by the time Baron’s home, it’s like either we’re getting rain or it’s just disgusting because we’ve gotten rain that I just don’t want to be out there with the bugs and the grossness. Um, but I moved things around cuz he was going to mow the lawn and I’m like, “Let me see what I’ve got.” Uh, my security camera needs some help because there’s some gaps in there. Like you’ll see me going over this way and then there’s no nothing. And then you’ll see me arrive somewhere else like from somewhere. It’s like very glitchy. And then I just stop being out there all together and my husband comes out to mow the lawn. And I’m like, where is the huge all the things I was doing? security cam. So, yeah, I need a second security cam out there because one is just not reliable. Oh, yes. Question questioning how I say wagon gardener in Minnesota. Is it like rut root rut? Yeah, I don’t know how I know. We’re gonna have to say have one of those. She says root. One of those. Oh, yeah. She says she says rut instead of root. Like ru t. Yeah, r. I love it. We do a rut count in Shaunie Gross. I question how you say a lot of things. We should do bow tie. You know the words usually. You’re on top of that. You should do like that for Diva and Shaunie and I and Robin and you could join the panel and just show the word and we just kind of all say it, but we hear each other. How do you say this word in your native tongue? Yes. How do you pronounce this word? Yes. Thank you, Miss Sharon. But yeah, that was um it’s been interesting with the I have to say joining the Vine program like those were some of the great stuff so far that I did get. I’ve gotten a few things for the kids um for a friend. I’m probably going to reach out and do that for friends. There’s a lot of It’s funny. I’m sure you know badass would not want the parts, but there’s parts for cars a lot. Like if somebody needs a small part for a car, you might wanna Oh, you do. Okay. You’re gonna have to tell me what part because Yes, ma’am. No, I’m putting my hand up for a question. Go ahead. No, I don’t need a part. I need a Yes. Oh. Um, what is what is it that you’re speaking about? Oh, the Vine Pop it up. It’s a inviteonly program to Amazon where they contact you and ask you if you’d like to be a part of this program. Let me see if I can pull it up. Uh, can I get rid of this one? Stop the screen. Yes. Okay. Let me bring it up. I have it open because I still have to get one more thing and I only have like 22 minutes. Here it is. Okay. So, they contact you and and you basically are getting all this stuff for free on Amazon Vine and it’s ridiculous like the difference in all the stuff like they have a variety of things that you can pick from, but it’s only what they it’s like you don’t get to search all of Amazon. They make recommendations for you. They took my recommendations away for the day because it’ll restart um tomorrow available for all. They’ll have something. But this is where they stock all their items. And you just never know what you’re going to see in here. Like if somebody has a colostomy, uh, let me know because there’s a lot of colostomy stuff on here for some reason. Uh, like medical stuff I’ve found on here. A lot of medical parts for cars, like replacements for computers. So, some of it is you have to have that item in order to fix it. But then you saw I had the broad fork and there’s clothing and there’s jewelry and um when you first start you can only pick up to three items and that’s where I am. I’m in beginning level or up to $100 you spend in that 24hour period. So hey um I grew up in Bokeh and I loved shopping when I was young. So, me getting to spend like $100 every day, I’m like, “Yeah, I’ll do it. Sure.” And all I have to do is write a review, an honest review about the product. And they prefer that you take pictures or video and Yeah. Thank you, Shaunie. You put it all up there. I didn’t even have to say all that. Yes, exactly. Oh, that’s awesome, Carol. Yeah. So, I felt very blessed considering all these bills were coming in and I was like, “Oh, I’m gonna have no spending money with all these new bills and Yeah. And exactly. And things for pets.” Uh, it’s weird because they do send me things like because they know I buy my vitamins on there, but they’ll send me vitamins and I’m like, “Eh, who is that made by? Where’s that made?” Just because it’s a vitamin, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to try that and put that in my body. like no. Yes. Photos or video or text? No. Yeah. They prefer video or photos is what I understood. Barry, you got the kitty cats. Are those kitty cat ears or are you pointy? Oh, but my mom says it’s the same way Shaunie does. Oh, your mom says it the same way Shnie does if we’re still on the pronunciation. So if you do a video for for let’s say that broad fork on the will it be able to be shown on that uh as a review? I don’t think they’ll do it like that. It’s usually a clip. I don’t think they would show maybe a short if I did a short on the product and they show Yeah, maybe. And then that would be I don’t know if they would show though anything that would have my like icon or anything cuz you just Yeah, totally gave me that idea. I would have my channel up on Amazon. Wow. Clicked on products where it’s, you know, it’s definitely a customer review video. Yeah, I have that right now too. I had um and if I’m getting it then probably Diva and Shaunie will get it. You might get it. It usually goes in groups. Uh, it’s for a hummingbird feeder. Did you guys get that one? The asking if you want to review a hummingbird or collaborate, but I’m like, well, what’s this collaboration are you offering? Like, are you paying me or is it just the product? It’s just the product. Um, but it’s a beautiful bird. Beautiful, beautiful bird. Go ahead. Those little videos are good because um people people are pretty dog on honest, you know. Yes. Where sometimes others are pretty flowery. Yeah. Because I was buying a a mid-century modern uh chair, a three-legged chair, and um you know, I really wanted to know more about it since I couldn’t touch it and feel it ahead of time. And those little videos really were helpful. [Music] Yeah, I I do the same thing as looking for the reviews when I’m on Amazon and look for the like honest ones. I’m always looking for first the negative ones. If I see that it’s got a lower number, I’ll usually go right to those negative ones. And then if they look somewhat legit, what I’ll do is I try to see it in order, like the reviews in order. And if I notice that it has a negative review, and then all of a sudden it’s got five star review right behind it, I’ll let you know they’re bumping up their score. So I’ll usually move on away from that item. Cool. I’m glad we could inspire you. Bow tie. Yeah, you’re going to do that eating challenge. That’s so crazy. And we have words. Hey, you can’t steal my pronounced words. No, no, no, no, no. That’s here. No, ma’am. No, no, no, sir. I just saw that. No, no. That’s fine. Go ahead. That’s fine. Yeah. You got to also get their slang, too. what they say when their mouths are burning up. We might not be able to put it on your channel. What’s a What’s the Scoville on a Dorset Naga? Oh, wait. Question. Can you say is that one of those crazy in the millions kind of Scoville? [Music] Exactly. Shnie, I don’t know if I can. Wouldn’t that be funny? Why don’t you head on over and see my full review in video on my channel on YouTube? No, they’d probably cut me out right out of that program. They’d be like, “You’re dead. You’re dead. I don’t want to like put this, you know, goodie box that at risk.” Holy deals. I think 800 to 1,600. Oh my. What’s a jalapeno? So, it’s 1,6 1,600, isn’t it? Or no, 800,000 to Yeah. 1,600. What’s a regular like a regular jalapeno? Is that Oh, heck no. I wouldn’t touch a Scoville or the other Naga. No. Wow. No. I I like to taste things like as they are. Yeah. No. Oh, no. Bow tie. Yikes. Of course, you’re working up to that, right? Cuz you know, going from jalapeno to that Scoville, you could puke. I have seen people do it. I’ve seen people be like, I’m going to try this and I’m going to eat it with this person and then all of a sudden they just You better breathe. You better have a gallon of milk ready. Yeah. A gallon of milk and a waste cup. Good. Just in case. I imagine you’re practicing maybe like eating things just below it. Yes. Yeah. Their slang. Exactly. But their slang involves words that rhyme with aunt. So be careful over there. And it’s just part of language. The colorful language that we’re not as Americans, we don’t say. Oh, good. You’re training every single day. I can’t imagine what that that’s what you should be videoing video that bow tie you training for it because that would be cute for it like a short right for weapons. That’s what it it it exists for weapons Shaunie I think. Why does that hot of a pepper exist for weapons? For bears. It’s what they put in bear spray. I like I know exactly. I like spicy but not burning. Me either, Ann. I like spicy but not burning. Yeah, cuz morning super hot. I’m the same way because there’s a point where it’s just so hot. Yeah. That you’ve burnt out all your taste buds and you’re no longer tasting taste. Yeah. The the hottest thing I ever had was at a Japanese restaurant and our friend goes, “Oh, you like hot stuff, Robin. You’ll like this.” Uh oh. Oh my god. Not in any kind of Asian restaurant would I ever I would I would be like, “I like hot stuff, but what are you putting in?” And that was way before I knew the milk trick to cool it down. So I’m like eating rice and just anything to quiet the Yeah. Just to quiet the pain. It really becomes pain. Your nostrils hurt, your tongue hurts, your lips are burning, you know, it’s not a great experience. No. Pasma, you could get some maybe of that hot pepper and put it in lotion and rub it on your feet and it’ll warm you right up. But yeah, that doesn’t sound like fun that you’re getting 54° and 47 already. I remember last year you you cold you got cold before any of us did. That was for sure. Well, I won’t ever get as cold as you except for straight up into winter here. I might have a day like that. That’s more like I our winter anyway. 54 to 47. We might dip down below 40 a bit now, but not much. Pass up in New Hampshire, state of New Hampshire. They get cold quick and they don’t have much of a spring either anymore. It’s really bizarre cuz you guys are all hot. Shaunie is hot. Like, but the east coast up there, there’s certain areas that are, but they stay pretty cool. She had some hot days, but nothing like what you guys are having. I’ve always eaten a quart teaspoon hot sauce in my cheese scramble eggs. I’m now up to two tablespoons. Wow. Let’s see. Capsain does not damage the nerves. Yeah. Uh it’s totally a neural experience. I don’t know. Everything has a contradiction. Contraindication. That’s what I meant to say. Is isn’t Coke CocaCola also something you can take to kind of neutralize the pepper if I don’t it’s over the top? I’m not sure. Pepper eating people. Yeah, I would I would say probably not just thinking of the fizziness. Oh my gosh. Yeah, maybe flat. I know. My mom used to give us flat coke. Like if we had an upset stomach, you drank flat coke to help like coat it and make it better. No, you did. Just a joke. I dare you thing. Oh, it amplifies the heat. Oh, no. That’s bad. Yeah, I’ll stick with Kay. Your brother thought it was a good prank. That’s not nice. But then again, that’s a brother. That’s a brother. I have the bell pepper. Yeah, I I’ll cut a jalapeno maybe. I know whatever they put in my green hot sauce that I like. Hey, Aid, welcome in. Okay, you guys have Okay, so Kentucky was in the low 80s today. Now it’s 61. That sounds like a nice day, though. It’s been this way for weeks. That sounds nice. Now Coke is a joke. I dare you thing. Okay, so cola amplifies the I never knew that. Okay. Milk or sugar? Now sugar, not sugar. Okay. Only whole full fat milk will work. Okay. I remember. Um I can’t I can’t drink whole fat. Yeah, I can’t. I’ll be fat. Whole milk. Nobody will want to be around me if I drink whole milk. My stomach will be I don’t know why want that hot spicy and I know I don’t either. Exactly. Well, some people love that. Yeah. My my brother loves it really hot. He loves Indian hot food. And when he knows that we’re going to go to a place where he knows that he gets it where it’s really really hot, he will actually pre-sweet just thinking about that we’re going to that restaurant. Wow. He’ll all like he’ll just start seeing we we haven’t even left the house and he’s like look at I’m already sweating looking forward to that. You know how hot it’s going to be. His body just goes crazy. That’s like your mouth watering except for his body. His whole body waters. His whole body waters. He’s He’s going to try to kill us. Let’s put out the fire. Start sweating now. Start sweating now. Oh my goodness. It’s a good thing he has his mouth with him to eat that. That’s right. Take your mouth with you. Take your mouth. No. No. No. No. Oh, she won’t want We don’t want our diva to do that. We don’t want it to affect any of her vocal cords or anything that hot. No. No. No. What? Oh, you have one of those popping veins. I have one of those, too. Sometimes it pops out. Wow. Everybody, I’d like to thank you. We’re gonna actually end early tonight because my husband is manager on duty this weekend. So, I don’t have his help tomorrow in the morning, in the afternoon. It’s just me and the kiddos. So, I thank you for coming in. Did you guys want to announce anything going on over on your channels before I give it a good night? Um, I want to thank I want to thank Miss Stephven D Marine Washington, my co-host, and Robin for coming in uh and helping us in the beginning. Thank you, Robin Gardens. Always a pleasure, both of you. And also our Shaunie Grows and our and our chat. You guys are awesome. the members. Thank you so much my members. I will have something else planned for you. All the membership people almost had changed except for a core group of you. I wanted to actually name you and my list disappeared. I had my list up and it’s gone. So, I’m just going to say a nice thank you and I will uh get that up soon. Maybe I’ll even have it in my posts. So, thank you so much. Thank you for supporting my channel and we will see you hopefully over on Diva in the Dirts tomorrow night 10:00 Eastern, 7 o’clock Pacific. I always want to say specific instead of Pacific. Yeah, the I’m um I will I will know midm morning um or midafternoon. Well, actually no, tomorrow I am on the urban gardener um live stream. So, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, I will be a guest on his show. Not sure. I am planning on doing my live tomorrow night, but I have my daughter who is um she’s driving in for one day to come and pick up the last of her belongings. And um I’m just going to say that she’s she’s doing me a favor. She told me last night, “I’m doing you a favor by coming all this way to take that stuff out so that you can put your plants back in your studio.” She’s doing me a favor. Oh, it should be fun. Oh, oh, I’m doing you a favor by not putting your stuff out on the lawn. Yeah. So, it depends on how a match then tomorrow night on your channel. Will you just film that where you’re locking her in a headline? I like, “Yeah, thanks for doing me a favor by coming and getting your stuff out of my house. I appreciate that. Big favor for me.” So, I will know. Uh, it just depends on when she’s leaving because she does have to catch fairy and um, but I think I can go ahead and just do the live anyway. I think I should be able to be fine, but I’ll know once she hits. We’ll do her a favor by letting her move it out herself and you sit down and watch her everybody. Hopefully, we’ll see diva there tomorrow night, but tomorrow you can catch her over at But if not, you’ll see me tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. on Urban Gardener. Yeah, sorry. Thank you. 11 a.m. And please head over to Robin Gardens and Shnie Grows and check out the videos that they have up right now. They’ve got great stuff. Thank you so much, everybody. Bye. [Music] Hey, [Music] Hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey. [Music]