Join Brian as he shows you around the garden! It’s approaching the end of season here at Redleaf. The summer crops are going out with a bang, the cool crops are growing beautifully, and see what he does to prepare for the winter season. Also see what Brian is planning for the future of Redleaf!

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Oh my goodness. We got more cool crops over here. Oh my god. Wait, are those mulberries? All right, back in the coop. Love you. More squash. Hurrah. Hello everyone. It is Brian here at Red Leaf. It has been a minute since I’ve shown you what’s happening in the garden. Fall is in full swing here, but honestly, looking at the garden, you wouldn’t really be able to tell cuz everything is still so pristine, so lush, and thriving. Most of the garden is going to keep pushing along until we get our first frost, which has been forecasted for next Monday. I’m honestly so excited because I’m tired. I’m so tired. Our garden season is so long. We get things started here in January. We start seeds for the cool crops to go out in early spring and it runs all the way until mid November. That is such a long season. That’s like basically 11 months of growing. So, I get that one month, that one month window where I just get to rest and hibernate. And I can’t wait cuz like I said, I’m so tired. I’m so tired. But it feels really nice that the garden can provide for so long here. If you aren’t aware, we are in central Tennessee, zone 7b. So, our climate really is just amazing for growing such an abundance of crop as you’ve seen throughout the years. But, I wanted to walk around the garden and show y’all what is going on. First, let me show you the plant that has tired me out the most this season, every season, because of how much abundance it produces. Like, it might be a little bit too much. At this point in the season, I don’t even know what to do with all of these tomatoes. But, as you can see, they are still going so strong. And it has been getting cooler. Like, we’re getting into like the low 50s at night, low 40s even. We haven’t experienced a frost yet. So, as long as we don’t get those frosty temperatures, all of these warmer crops like tomatoes, squash, eggplants, peppers, even are going to continue producing. They might slow down quite a bit, but they’re going to keep going. As you can see, we still have such an abundance of tomatoes growing in. Lots are still ripening. They’re still getting that really nice warm midfall sun. Oh my gosh. And we still have some real big ones coming in, too. Oh my gosh. What am I even going to do with all these maiders? I’m matered out, y’all. And it’s no guarantee that all of these are going to make it to the end of the season. Like if we get that first frost, I’m just going to harvest everything that we do have. If I end up with a bunch of green tomatoes, we’ll get some fried green tomatoes. But really, Sunday is going to be the true final harvest of the summer. So, I think the tomatoes will officially be done by then. Oh, hey, Bruno. Hi, Bob. I know you’re loving the cool weather. Having such a big darkhaired dog, the summer can be a bit rough for him, but he’s loving the cooler weather. He wants to be outside all the time now. Oh, he’s usually such a homebody. Right. Right. What has been nice is I’ve been like intermingling the cool crops along with the warmer crops. So, I do have a nice new round of carrots coming in here. I actually need to get in here and thin them out eventually. Usually, when I plant my carrots, I do it pretty chaotically. I don’t really think too much about it. I just like prepare a little space, the soil, and then I just sprinkle the seeds, not necessarily placing or spacing them any certain way. But as they grow, I actually did a pretty good job laying them out pretty chaotically. But if you have a cluster of carrots like these here, if you have carrots that are too close together here, you literally thin them out by just plucking them. You want a nice like 2 to 3 in in between each carrot. Yeah. And it’s quite satisfying. Unfortunately, once you do pluck them, they can’t really be replanted. They won’t do too hot. But the chickens will appreciate these extra little greens in here. I forget what variety of carrots these are. Again, it was done pretty chaotically. didn’t give it too much thought. Carrots are one of those easy crops that don’t really take much thought. You just sprinkle them and watch them grow. But thinning is so essential. I really If you want a successful crop of carrot, you got to make sure you thin them out and give them the proper spacing. Otherwise, they start when they once they develop, they start to like split and try to wrap around each other. And once they split, they can get pretty bitter and welcome pests that like to chew them up. So, thin out your carrots. I’m going to toss these to the chickens. Our chickens are doing really wonderful. Speckle. I don’t know if you’ve been following the saga of the new chicks that we’ve been trying to hatch that we have hatched. Speckle wasn’t the most successful hatcher of chicks, unfortunately. But since putting her back and reintroducing her to the other chickens, here you go. I’ve actually gone in and removed the housing that was in here, the other coupe that she was brooding in. A really nice way to break the brood if you’re not going to be able to hatch chicks with the broody chickens is to either remove the area if possible that hey Olive that they’re brooding in or just separate them from the area that they’re brooding in. That separation really helps break that brood. Isn’t that right, Olive? You got four kids right now. How you doing Olly? I cannot believe that of we hatched four chicks and I’m pretty sure three of the chicks are roosters as well. So, after doing all that, I’m pretty devastated cuz I was really hoping for hens cuz my ladies are old and I really need new laying hens. They’ll be six next year and that’s about when they start slowing down egg production, egg production and phasing out of laying eggs altogether. But to get three more roosters, that’s just my luck, huh? The rooster jeans are strong, huh, Olive? Oh, yeah. You love them. I know you act all tough, but once a baby, always a baby. But unfortunately, because we have all of our rooster already and such a small number of hens, we’re not going to be able to keep the other roosters. I think it’s like 7 to 10 hens per rooster, and we have seven hens. So, we only really need one rooster to help um I guess protect them and just be part of that that pecking order. So, I’m going to have to give the other chicks away. If you’ve been following the series along on TikTok um or YouTube shorts and want a baby hen or a baby rooster, hit me up cuz they will need new homes eventually. All right, back in the ce. Love you. Oh, one thing I do want to show you. The only thing that’s really Excuse me, Bruno. The one tree in the garden that’s really giving fall. Oh, is this beautiful sassifras? Look at this gorgeous color. Oh, look at the gorgeous color on these leaves. Such a gorgeous tree. And sassifras has so many uses as well. Isn’t this where root beer comes from? Don’t they make root beer at a sassifras root? I don’t know if you know where root beer comes from and it’s the sassifras. Confirm in the comments. Also, if you like chew on the leaves of sassifrass, I don’t know if you’ve ever done that, it gets really Bruno, I know you’re not eating the compost right now. Ah, get out the compost. Nasty. Let’s go back to the garden. Come on. This is really interesting. I see it as a a good sign, a good omen that our bearded iris right here, this is the second time it’s bloomed this season. We got a fall bloom of this gorgeous bearded iris. Slay sis, major sleigh, thanks for giving us a show this time of year. Over here, we still have two squashes growing in the garden. Or our butternut sasquatch squash is still going very strong. We have this squash here that I think is actually close to being ready. I don’t know. She’s actually kind of soft. That doesn’t feel good. She’s developing that white coating. More squash. Hurrah. And there’s another one over here. This one’s coming along real nice. This one’s getting some real nice color on her. A real nice shape on her. Besides, she’s nice and warm. She hasn’t been creating that coat yet. So, girl, you got a week. Hope you’re ripe enough. And we got some more of the Waldoms coming in over here. These summer crops aren’t going out without a fight. You got seven days, y’all. Fingers crossed they make it. Oh my goodness. Same with the sweet potatoes. Look at this crazy mess over here. They are still going so strong. I’ve been waiting for them to flower, which is kind of my indicator for like determining that they’re ready to be harvested, but they haven’t flowered yet. So, they’re just growing. They just keep on growing. I’m very curious to see what’s going to happen. I don’t know if you can like get in here and and and see, but like they’re mounding themselves. Like you can see this big lump in here. Like there’s sweet potatoes lurking. That sweet potato harvest going to be crazy. Oh my god. And there’s so many in here. What will I do with all these sweet potato? We’re going to be eating real good this winter, that’s for sure. Unfortunately, this squash is just out. It’s just completely done for. Everything was harvested. She’s kind of on her last limb, which is fine. And I’m just going to let her do her thing until the bitter end. But we have another round of cool crops here. We have kabi. I’ve never grown kabi. Never had kabi. I hear it’s tasty. Hopefully that’s true. We’re getting some really cute bulbs. Look at that. That’s one cute little kabi. And we got quite a few. There’s another one over yonder. And right here, too. We’re going to be some good kabi this winter. And we have some dill here that’s receded, which I absolutely love. Please grow. Oh, grow grow more dill for me. Dill is one of my favorite things to grow. My one of my favorite herbs. I love that she just volunteers herself. Here we have our next wave of broccoli, which are also looking really lush, really gorgeous, really full, nice and green. It’s been funny seeing like the pests that I usually deal with like uh cabbage moth and those dreaded harlequin beetles. The harlequin beetles I’ve been like really on top of. Like there’s been no spray or oil or natural remedy that I have found that handles the harlequin beetle. So, I really have to get out here and hand pluck every single one off. And I’ve been really on top of doing that because which with such a short window in the fall season, we ain’t got time for any setbacks. So, I’m making sure to get out here and just pluck pluck pluck away. But now that it’s getting cooler, they have definitely phased out. The Harley Quinn beetles are certainly done for the season. And now I’m not even worried about the cabbage moth because at this size, at this stage, this broccoli is going to do really well in the frosty weather. But the cabbage moths or caterpillars, winter’s coming, and I’m really excited for it. One thing I do want to mention, a lot of the cool crops and things like that do say that they are frost hearty. I believe that is only true when the plant is actually at a mature size. I wouldn’t really say it’s true for saplings or tender seedlings. They will die. I wouldn’t say that’s true frost hardiness when they are at this this stage. I think they’ll do very well in a frost. So, we’re getting that first frost next Monday. Very excited to see how they do with that cuz I’m not going to cover none of this. I ain’t got time for that. So, I’m curious to see what what happens. And I hear that broccoli, cabbage, brassacas, the cruciferous vegetables, they actually get really yummy, real sweet in that frosty weather. I’m ready for some sweet, crunchy broccoli. Let’s go broccoli. Good luck, babe. Good luck. I did plant another This is an interesting time of year. You’re going to hear like varied responses like this is not a good time of year to be planting or it is a good time of year to be planting. I think I’m on the bandwagon of it is a good time of year to plant because it’s cooler naturally when it’s cooler weather like I planted this uh amomnia. I planted Oh, this is old hissup. I planted some more hissup around the edges here like this hissup right here. Given they are perennials and they are native so that definitely adds to the um the trust I have in planting them this time of year. But because it’s cooler, it is more moist, it is raining more as well, it’s going to help these plants settle in and establish much easier, much more quickly than in the hot summer months. I do not recommend planting anything in the brutal heat of summer. Early spring, fall is honestly a really wonderful time to plant things. There’s fall bulbs, of course, that overwinter and come out in the uh spring. Garlic is a wonderful thing to plant. Stay tuned for that cuz we will have to do a garlic fall planting. I am going to plant garlic this year. I didn’t do it last year and I actually really missed having the garlic harvest this year. I noticeably felt like something was missing from the garden this season without harvesting my garlic. So stay tuned for that. We’re definitely going to do that. But yeah, planting these perennials, I think key word is perennials, native perennials. Fall is a really wonderful time to plant them. Trees as well, actually. And here in Tennessee, we don’t get that harsh of a winter, so they will overwinter really well. And by spring, you’re already going to have all these wonderful perennials in place, and they’ll be back bigger and better for the spring season. So do your research on what’s native to you. And fall is a wonderful time to plant. Get out there and dig a hole, fam. Oh, you know what really surprised me? My eggplant. We still have so many. Look at how many fruits we got going on right now. Oh my goodness. You know how much eggplant porn I’m about to be busting out in this kitchen. Look at look at all so much fruit. I don’t know what took y’all so damn long, but I mean I’m not mad. They’re They’re here. They’re slaying. Oh my god. So Oh my god. There’s even one down here. We got fruit on fruit on fruit. So much eggplant farm. Another really fun recipe I like to make is called tortang talong or tortang talong. I think something like that. But it’s actually a Filipino dish. Some of the smaller ones might be perfect for it. Oh my goodness. We got more cool crops over here. We have another round of cauliflower which sorry Marold. Sorry girl. But as you can see they are thriving. They are so big. So luscious. It has been raining. It has been nice and cool which is literally ideal brassica conditions. They love rainy, wet, cool weather. That’s when they thrive. You notice growth spurts like crazy. They grow so fast. Hopefully they they develop a nice head in time. I know damn well. This was a sacrificial cauliflower. This was one that I let get chewed up by my Harley Quinn beetles. By them Harley Quinn. I swore I just saw one. I think she saw me coming. She’s like, “Oh, it’s time to go.” Cuz they know I don’t play that. She ain’t going to make it to to harvest, unfortunately. I planted her at the same time as these, actually. And this one got beat up by Harley Quinn Beetle. And you can see how much it stunts their growth to be chewed on by Harley Quinn compared to the other ones. Big difference. We also have our gorgeous chard, which is like I planted this in the spring and she endured the summertime and now she is thriving in this cool weather. There’s so much chart I really even know what to do with it all. Especially with like leaves this big. Look at that leaf. That’s huge. I really like making um tacos or burritos with chard. Like using it as like the tortilla. It’s so good. So so good. Slay chard. Also makes a nice snack for the chickens. They love their greens. Oh my goodness, my cabbages. Look at them. So, we have our cabbages, but we also had a lot of our bush bean that receded. I just kind of let the bush bean go cuz once that frost hits, all of this is going to die back, but it’s going to become sustenance for the soil, which is going to be so good. I feel like there’s like this little misconception about legumes fixing nitrogen within the soil. I feel like I believe I saw in order for all of those nutrients to be brought back into the soil, I think the bean actually has to like die off to like release those nutrients. It doesn’t just like release it as it’s growing. I think it has to die off. Don’t quote me on that. I think there’s something along those lines with beans. So, to see all these beans here growing, knowing that they’re going to die off with the frost, it’s going to give a really nice boost to the soil here, which is great cuz I’m growing these cabbages, which take a lot of nutrients from the soil. They are heavy feeders. I think it’s going to be a nice cycle of nutrients in this bed. All of these cabbages are doing so good. These are all varieties um I got at a a local garden center that mature within 50 to 60 days. That’s how long our fall season is. So, I wanted to make sure that they had a good enough of a window to actually mature within time. So, let’s go cabbages. Let’s go cabbages. I’m ready for some new heads. And they’ve been doing really well. Oddly enough, I feel like the Harley Quinn beetles, those little pesks that I keep dealing with, they haven’t really been on my cabbages nearly as much as I’ve seen them on my coniflower. I think they prefer the coniflower. Wish I had a honey bee. Did it land on me? But yeah, very excited to see how these do cabbages. Slay cabbage. Oh my gosh. Here we have more giant beds of sweet potato. These are actually starting to yellow off significantly more than the ones in the other bed. So, these are pretty these are giving me a pretty good sign that they’re they’re about done. They’re they’re about as tired as I am and want to be wanting to be harvested. They’re ready to go. I think I’m going to harvest these real soon cuz they they got to go. Oh my god, I’m so curious to see how this did because these beds are new. I’ve never planted in a bed this deep before. Nor have I used pure compost as the soil medium. So, this was all quite new and experimental. Very curious to see how the sweet ters did in this. We shall see. Stay tuned for that. Stay tuned for that. Oh my goodness. You know what’s giving us a really beautiful show this time of year? My pineapple sage. Oh my goodness. Look at the gorgeous color on her. I I truly didn’t anticipate them getting this big. This is a big This is the biggest I’ve ever seen them. But sages usually do get quite large. But she is absolutely stunning, giving us a beautiful fall show with these neon yellow, really bright yellow leaves and the red flowers. And I just love how pineapple sage smells. Take a whiff. Take a whiff. Smells so good. You too. Oh my god, it smells so good. Love the pineapple sage. But I’m happy I planted this for some like really nice fall interest cuz unlike our Rudekia here, she’s looking quite crusty. Quite crusty, quite dusty this time of year. I mean, it it it does add its own unique interest with these like brown brown bubbles hanging in the air. I feel like when winter hits and everything’s more gray and brown. This will be nice. This will look real nice. I planted some more blocks just to fill in some gaps. Another perennial. Very curious to see how this uh comes back next year. I feel like this will fill in this little corner so beautifully. Here’s a gorgeous salvia that’s also taken over. Really gorgeous color. She’s been going all season. This is a really reliable plant in terms of like she will perform all season long. She will give it to you. Love this really beautiful fuchsia magenta color. Absolutely stunning. I know I say I’m tired. I am. Trust me, I am. But that doesn’t really stop me from still like making sure there’s nice interest happening within the garden throughout the season because like me personally like I still wanted to see it especially when there’s so much happening. I don’t like seeing like pockets of negative space knowing that something was there and it didn’t necessarily make it or it’s been harvested. So I got some like I believe these are native mums. I had a a cat mint that was growing here and just completely died off. But I feel like this is a native or a species variety of mums. And it’s so unique because like you know when you think of mums you think of the really tight compact flowers that are really bunched together and create that like bubble effect that bulbous effect of flowers. Like this is so different. You actually see like the the internal flower head where the pollen is. There’s something so beautiful about how big these blooms are. So pretty. Hopefully it comes back in that container. I think it would perform really well there. I’m very curious what’s what’s going to happen with the greenhouse cuz this is my first like true winter going into winter with the greenhouse already built, already in place. I have quite a few tropical things growing in here. Things that won’t necessarily do well through the winter. So, I’m probably going to have to find a means of uh keeping it warm in here cuz I don’t want all this to die back because they didn’t acclimate to the cooler weather. Let’s see what happens. Um I definitely I especially don’t mind everything here, but I especially don’t want my olive tree to die back. Look at all of this beautiful growth it’s given. I don’t want to lose that. I want it to just like keep maturing, keep growing cuz like within one season, this did grow significantly. It gave us a lot, but I don’t want to have to start over with her. So, I probably will keep the greenhouse warm. Why not? Especially like I had a lot of these tropical fruing plants like this dwarf banana. That’s a shampoo ginger here in the corner. Some pineapple here. Some tropical passion fruit. I don’t want all of this to die off. I just answered my own question. Yeah, I’m going to heat it. I’m going to have to heat it. some pineapple, guava, and these are a citrus. This is uh lime, I believe. Here we actually have this one started producing fruit. I mean, I don’t know if she’s going to grow through the winter, but that was interesting to see. Let’s see what happens to this greenhouse. I have to find a place for this winch. I saw it. I felt like I had to have it, but it’s big and very heavy. I need to find a proper place for that. But look at her. Isn’t she gorgeous? She’s a moment. It’s like over here, we have this other perennial bed that you you can you can feel the the end of season. Oh my god. Wait, are those mulberries? My mulberry is so weird because, you know, I think of her as a tree, something that shouldn’t die back the way that she dies back every winter. Like, she dies back completely. The whole top stocks die and it starts growing again from the base. But that’s not my ideal way of growing this tree. I would expect the trunk to stay alive and it grow new branches. I didn’t I didn’t think it would have enough time to produce mulberries, but look, we got some mulberries coming in. We got some mulberries. They’re definitely not ready yet, but girl, you got like a week. Top chop. I don’t know what if y’all do anything in particular to protect your mulberries from dying every winter. They’re supposed to be hardy enough to endure this winter. Again, she’s not even that severe. Get it together, girl. Get it together, cuz I want mulberries. I remember I went down to Georgia for one of my book signing events, and we hosted it at this farm, this a little urban farm in a residential complex, and oh my goodness, they had a mulberry tree that was like, I kid you not, the size of that pine tree. It was enormous and there were so many berries. My god, this, bless her heart, this woman just literally goes up to a tree and she goes on one of the branches and like so many berries fall. I was like, “Wait, no.” Cuz like it’ll stain your so bad. I was like, “Wait, I wasn’t ready for that.” And I was wearing a cute outfit. Didn’t even have my signing yet. I was like, “I can’t be stained for this signing. Hold up.” But yeah, girl, get it together. We’re starting to see the browns coming in from the the wild sea oats. She’s really beautiful. I love the little brown wisps that start coming from the seed heads. Although, she does reproduce like crazy. She was not I did not plant her there. She just she just showed up there. I actually planted her way in that corner and now she’s made her way up up over yonder under this elderberry. But they’re all native. It’s all coexisting beautifully in this space. I know the native wildlife really appreciates it. Same with that panicum. I believe it’s uh northern wind wispy illustrious grass, but she’s definitely starting to fade away. There’s actually three plants there, and I had to chop one of them back significantly because it was just too much. She was taking up too much room. I wanted to plant more, but I couldn’t because she was taking up too much room. So, I had to chop her back. I might actually get rid of that for next season, but time will tell. Look at how lush and gorgeous the comfry is doing. She needs to be harvested and put into the compost for a new nice little boost to the compost. This is a really gorgeous plant that kind of surprised me because I totally forgot that I planted this last season, but she just sprung up and I was like, “Wait, who is that?” Then she started blooming and I was like, “Oh my god, it’s my toad lily. Look at Look at my gorgeous little toad lily. Look at how beautiful these flowers are. Look at that. Oh my god, they’re so unique, so pretty, so special. They ideally like a lot more shade than this is getting. You can see how much sun it’s getting. It burns the leaves, but I mean it the plant still does well enough to give us those gorgeous blooms. So, we love to see it. Absolutely love it. How are we going to get to the front of the garden again? I am very excited for the winter season for things to finally take a break, for things to settle down because winter time is certainly going to be the time of reflection. It’s one of my favorite times because I can really stop and think and and process everything that happened in the garden this season. Really think about what what I’m going to do differently for the next one. I definitely know I’m going to do garlic because I I missed having garlic in the garden. So, I will definitely be planting that before winter hits. I’m going to have to sit down and really process what I am definitely going to do differently. I think squash something is going to have to shift there. I mean, we grew so many wonderful squash, so many wonderful pumpkins, but in terms of like how much space they consume in a garden and and the kind of upkeep that they require throughout the season, there’s definitely something there in terms of managing them or planting them in a space that makes more sense for how big they get. But honestly, like I only got so much space, so it might just have to be something I endure. I don’t know. We’ll see. Cuz one thing’s for certain, I will never stop growing squash. Honestly, next season I’m probably going to grow even less tomatoes because look at this. Again, this is like at this point it just becomes like a a monster. Just completely taken over. And we really don’t be eating tomatoes like that. I thought eight funny. We went from 16 to eight. And I was like, “Yeah, that’s going to be more than enough.” And eight was still an overwhelming number. I might have to cut down to like four. In my mind, that doesn’t feel like nearly enough, but in practice, in reality, that might be the perfect number. I don’t know. Tomato lovers, I’m sorry, but I will probably have to cut down on tomatoes. And maybe that naturally will make room for that squash that I’m looking for. It’s like Tetris. I feel like it’s like a puzzle every season trying to figure out what’s going to go where, what’s going to grow well together, what’s going to take up the right amount of space, or how do I make this space work so that everything fits and grows as they’re meant to, as prolifically, and as efficiently as they possibly can. So much to think about. Ah, right. My brain just kind of like shut. I just by this point in the season, I have stopped weeding. I have stopped pruning. I have stopped cutting things back. I’m just letting her do her thing. It is cooler, so things aren’t growing nearly as aggressively as they were in the hotter months. I kind of just let whatever is going to happen in these beds happen. In terms of like preparing the garden for the winter to overwinter, I literally I don’t do nothing. I let everything just die back, get nice and hard and brittle and brown. Primarily because, you guessed it, I’m tired and I don’t want to do all that work. But the more holistic side of it, the the the one that makes me so that validates my my lack of desire to want to do that is that everything when it dies back and you get all those like brown stems, all those branches, all that uh the leaf mold and things like that, all of that makes wonderful places for wildlife to hibernate throughout the winter. They literally sleep within the branches, under the leaves. So, why would I remove that? Why would I take that those cozy spaces away from wildlife to hibernate through the winter? And then they come back in the spring and the cycle starts all over again. So, we love to see it. But I think with that, that’s going to wrap up my end of season tour with you all. I really hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned cuz there’s still quite a few things that are going to happen. We have our sweet potato harvest. We have our garlic planting. We have the true final harvest of the season. Still so much to look forward to, but more than anything, I can’t wait for it all to be done so I can rest my spirit and hibernate and recharge the way the garden and nature does through the winter season so that when spring comes, we are ready for more abundance than ever before. Something that I’m really hoping, not sure if it’s going to happen this season, something I dream of, something that I’m envisioning is I actually want to expand the vegetable garden. I think that’s going to help solve a lot of my spacing issues, especially when it comes to the squash. We have quite a bit of room at the far end of the property over there. And there’s plenty of room to expand and maybe build a proper market garden so that we can start producing for our local community. I also have this vision of doing farm to to table dining. But really, I mean, we grow so much abundance here already, but I feel like in order to produce for that kind of scale, for a local community, for a restaurant, or for like a dining experience, we need even more. But like I said, that’s kind of just a a dream, an idea floating around in my mind. Let’s see what actually ends up happening. But if that does end up happening, can you imagine how much fun it would be to build a whole new garden? Can you imagine coming along on that journey? Cuz like when you guys started watching or like when you chimed into everything that was happening with Red Leaf, at least when we started sharing content, most of this was already built. We didn’t really start the garden from the beginning in terms of like when we were making content. So, to be able to take y’all on the journey of like starting a whole new garden, a whole new vegetable garden from scratch. Oh my god, I’m getting excited just thinking about it. I might not be hibernating this winter at all, but we shall see. All righty, y’all. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you enjoyed the tour, if you have any questions about overwintering, about cool crops, about anything else that you saw in the video, please drop them in the comments below. If you haven’t subscribed to our channel just yet, please do that. It really helps out the health of our channel so that we can keep sharing all of the abundance with you. Thank you so much for tuning in. Bye everyone.

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  1. Do you cut back your garden at the end of the season or let it die. I’m such a fan and I only wish I live by you because I would definitely take up the chicks 🐣. I have a small balcony where I grew 🍅, peppers 🌶️, lettuces, basil, thyme . A small farm in my 6 by 9 east facing balcony. I did your soup..yummmmm yummy 😋 thx for sharing ❤

  2. Thank you for letting us into your garden this year ❤ here's hoping many more years of abundance fall upon you, and us

    Edit: and if you're looking for things to do with your squash harvest, I have seen people use it for bread and for pasta! Might be an idea, you can freeze the bread and dry the pasta.

  3. Idk when you filmed this but I’m also in 7b here in Maryland & I ain’t wearing no shorts outside. 😂 It’s officially cold.

  4. Look up Italian pickled egg plant. I can mine. We would eat it on the side, Grandpa said it gives you an appetite!!! Had a friend that was crazy for apple pie. I made a green tomato pie, he loved it. I didn't tell him it wasn't apple until he ate it. He picked them for me, I don't know what he thought I was doing with them. LOL

  5. Omg. I'm in central TN too. I live in Clarksville. This is the first year that I've seriously decided to grow and actually pay attention to my garden. It was fun. Also, I'm getting chickens too!!! So exciting to be following someone from my neck of the woods.

  6. So happy to see your eggplants doing so well!! And yes to tortang talong – one of the best egg x eggplant dishes ever!

  7. Omg! Tortang talong is one of the best Filipino dishes ever. It really is a staple for me, as someone who grew up as a picky eater. I hope you'll enjoy tortang talong as much as we Filipinos do. 💛💛

  8. Those chard leaves are perfect for making dolma…a mix of rice/ground beef/hopped onion/chopped tomato/chopped dill/salt)pepper/a pinch of crushed red pepper stuffed into chard leaves are delicious! And the beautiful red stems laid at the bottom of the pot will soak up all the mix of lemon juice & tomato sauce poured over the stuffed leaves that will become your new favorite Kurdish dish. Let me know if you want more details 🫶

  9. I think I might be older than you (I’m 37) but I want to be you when I grow up lol I got your book in the mail the other day and I’ve had so much fun showing my son all the pictures (he just turned 1). He loves pointing at all the veggies ❤

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