The Lazy Garden Has Exploded! | FULL June Garden Tour 2024!

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Things are exploding
0:45 Sunflowers
1:11 No more center pathways
1:59 Zinnias
3:10 Goodbye Dahlias
4:14 Popcorn planting
7:35 Tarps and appearances
8:33 It’s strawberry runner season!
10:47 Expedition through the jungle
11:01 Asparagus
11:40 Kiwis and Jeffrey
12:03 Paw Paw Tree
14:09 Grapes
14:41 Garlic
16:08 Dahlias
16:49 Onion stock
17:16 Spinach and cucumber mess
18:28 No crop rotation and beans
19:50 Raspberries and Lucy visit
20:52 I’ve lied to you about weeds
22:50 Bermuda grass, aka Nimble weed
24:21 Don’t forget to water your alpacas
25:08 Too many figs
26:21 Use your smart phones, seriously
28:50 Imitation Weeds
30:34 Amarinth
31:30 No space to walk in the garden
33:15 Kiwi vines
33:34 Picking garlic
34:23 Tumeric
34:56 A message to my Chinese audience
35:46 Basil
36:38 Brassica patch
37:44 Buttercrunch lettuce
40:11 Artichoke
40:54 Tomatoes
43:53 Revisiting the scene of a crime
46:25 a word from our sponsor
47:45 Farm dinner

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I have been gone for most of the month teaching at various homesteading festivals and nobody took care of the garden while I was gone it’s not even technically summer yet but things are already very clearly popping let’s go take a look and see what’s going on right behind me we have a grape vine that I dug up out of the forest last year and planted here and as you can see it is going absolutely nuts I kind of didn’t really expect it to go this nuts this quickly speaking of things going absolutely nuts these dalas are genuinely out of control I cannot believe that this early in the season so much height so many blooms and speaking of uh things that are growing to ridiculous proportions would you just join me over here for one second I used to do this thing called aner scale which is mostly funny because I’m 5’2 and yeah if it hasn’t even gotten to summer equinox or whatever that day is the 21st of June yet and and they are already like 12 ft tall how tall are these going to be by the end of the season it’s like almost we have to tell the soil to slow its roll a little bit and speaking of that exact same thing genuinely in just you know a few days of being gone I apparently have no Center pathway anymore and here’s the funny thing I get a lot of comments at the beginning of the Season showing like putting down the mulch in the pathways and people are like that entire Garden is all mulch why don’t you grow some plants and the funny thing is this is the kind of stuff I’m talking about when I say we should plan our garden space for the middle of the season this isn’t even the middle of the season this is the beginning of the season I genuinely when I first started this Garden I thought that 2ft Pathways and 3ft rows were a great size but it’s a good thing I don’t need to get a wheelbarrow down this road right now because I don’t think I could we’re going to risk smelling like a pickle to come in here really quick and see a few things first and foremost these zenyas I am not a huge flower lover I like growing food that I can eat but I will say that I do really love having a few pops of color and zenyas are such a great bang for your buck because you only have to buy the seeds one time and then if you just grab a few of the flower heads needs to be a little bit drier than that but after the flower heads have dried out then the next season you’ve got all the seeds you need to go sprinkle those about and have more zenas again next year also if you just never actually clean up your garden they’ll seed themselves because frankly I don’t actually remember planting those or this Dill for that matter or any of these middle row strawberries I certainly didn’t plant this amaranth I did plant these passion fruit Vines but if you saw my spring preparation video you know that that was a bit of a mistake I’ll probably be dealing with that one for a few years and listen I’m not weeding right now it’s not a weed if you put it there I am about to commit absolute Garden blasphemy these dalas grew far faster than I expected them to grow this year and I had not yet trellis them before I went out of town and it’s really hard to Trellis them after the fact so even though they have already grown to this point and are already blooming I happen to need some space for my popcorn so we are going to dig them up mid Bloom transplant them and here’s why I’m going to get away with that we have a almost 9mon long growing season here and so hilariously though my dad is probably crying himself to sleep watching this right now I will probably end up getting a second Bloom out of these plants even though we’re starting over in the middle of the season Goodbye Yellow Brick Road meow meow meow meow meow meow meow oh see removing those little jerks revealed some tiny little baby garlics down in the soil future and here I have successfully removed all of my Delia weeds from this bed and it is now ready to plant my popcorn I have a few different varieties of popcorn and if you haven’t seen my making popcorn like it was 200 years ago video make sure you check that one out it’s very very silly and by the way I have a very fat black lip in that video and not because of Any nefarious reasons I was actually using my chainsaw and got hit in the face with a grape vine ironically so of course I dug that buddy up and it’s planted right over there anyway back to the popcorn so one of the big issues with popping corn as opposed to regular corn that we eat like on the cob is if any of your neighbors plant regular corn on the cob corn it’s going to cross-pollinate with your popcorn and your popcorn will not pop properly that was a really hard sentence to say but I learned that lesson the hard way a couple years ago and so now we wait till early June to plant our popcorn and I’ve got like I said a bunch of different different varieties here I’m going to just scooch the mulch sawdust mushroom compost layer back a little bit and just poke these little guys down into the soil seeds only want to be buried about two times as deep as they are thick I think that so many early gardeners or young gardeners accidentally plant their seeds way too deep and then they don’t understand why their plants don’t germinate the way they’d like them to and that gets real weird when you’re thinking about planting like lettuce seeds or grass seeds because they’re tiny all they want is to basically just be touching soil they don’t need to be buried and there in lies the thing of planting in June here because we’re in the middle of a huge Heat Wave and it’s really hot and it’s hard to keep these seeds nice and moist but that is exactly why instead of using my thick big pathway wood chip mulch I’m using mushroom compost Mulch and as I’m finding any chunks of anything I’m just squishing them up in my hands you’ll also see some lathe turning refu as well and that just keeps this sawdust layer from forming a really thick like impermeable layer of of mulch but anyway yeah just getting a little those down super random planting cell actually let’s be honest usually when I do this I just mix a whole bunch of random seeds into my hand we’ve got Dakota black popping corn we’ve got red popping corn the real disappointment here is that all of these turn white when they pop but at least the husks are a cool color let’s get some of this blue popcorn can make a real popcorn ecopia I’ll be here all summer folks seriously though because I never leave my house and because we are in the middle of a heat wave I’m not expecting all of these to germinate so I’m going to plant a few more of them than I probably normally would that’s okay and we’ll see what happens any hooers it’s corn it’s going to pop this is the part of the video where Adam’s like please stop you know what you were getting into buddy because I grew up pretty poor I’ve always been really really self-conscious about random tarps or Garbage buildings around the yard and this is a prime example of me now shifting into a new season of life where I care more about my animals Comfort than I do about the neighbor’s opinion of me in the background of Adam shot that he was just complaining about um ruining his pasture views is Lucy’s beautiful new shade cloth that is perfectly shading her mosquito pit also known as her mud wallow because today I came around the corner and instead of using her normal shade that I’ve created she was laying in the direct sunlight getting toasted like a summer tomato and I was like listen I have a tarp I have some d-rings we can fix [Music] this the transition between late spring and early summer here means that hot weather is about to start and with the hot weather comes the end of the most prolific part of strawberry season which is always really sad to me because I love strawberries but that sadness is tempered by the fact that the end of strawberry season means the start of strawberry Runner season and if you’ve been watching this channel for a while you know that I’m I am obsessed with propagation I started with 25 strawberry plants there are strawberries everywhere you look now and yes that means we have less strawberries overall and it’s also really hard to pick the strawberries but the point of all of this was to make more strawberries so that this fall I can uproot the majority of these strawberries and Transplant them into the far expanded Orchard over there and then those strawberries will become ground cover and fruit producing Delights over there as well look at all these I mean it’s ridiculous oh yeah see we’ve still got some strawberries grown in here but if we look back in here we can see that the mother plant or just like the main Crown will finish Fring and then it’ll start putting off these things called Runners and each one of these Runners will start like this but when it makes contact with the soil it will start growing roots and then those those roots will get established that’ll be its nutrient and water source and then it will keep running out this way or whatever way we we actually direct the runner to go and I’m not that worried about these strawberries growing in the pathways cuz honestly they’ll keep running over these beds and on and on it goes here’s one that’s starting to to produce some roots and once it’s got a couple Roots you can actually even take it off here then you take off the majority of the foliage so that those roots don’t don’t have a lot of foliage to support and you can literally just take that and stick it down in this whe just like this and Tada more strawberries and also one for the mouth delicious you’d think we would have learned this lesson last year when we went to Alaska in August but with our soil getting better and better every year our garden gets a little bit more unten earlier and earlier in the season remember that enormous asparagus thing I showed you in our Spring Garden Tour this was it back way back when and now she’s 10 ft tall if your asparagus ever gets this tall and you come bushwhacking back into the back of your all that to say that asparagus is a bit of an allergen for some people so if it’s touching your skin and you have sensitive skin it look out my sweet Nordic companion here probably maybe don’t touch as much of it but it’s too late anyway we’re we’re on a mission here we’re forging our way into the Darian Gap here these are my kiwis that I’m working on propagating young Jeffrey my male goat that loves having orgies in the most inopportune times no Jeffrey Jeffrey no no no Jeffrey absolutely not get out was chewing on the back of it and so I didn’t actually get it trellis that Oho some more garlic I didn’t get it trellis the way that I wanted to so it’s kind of blocking our way we’re on our way back to the paaw tree that you saw me plant a couple years ago from a little stick I stole from the forest and then in my spring garden tour video you saw me pollinating my Paw Paw tree with a little paintbrush something that you know just any normal human does in their spare time but guess what my sweet friends that little paint brush a has created exactly what I wanted to this little lone fruit is kind of pathetic compared to these this beest little cluster here I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am this is a three-year-old paaw Tree in full sun and in case you’ve never heard of a paaw before usually they grow in the shade and because they are a razal tree and they have to be pollinated not by honeybees but by crane flies and all kinds of other more strange pollinators they don’t tend to fruit as often as a lot of other fruit trees because they have to be pollinated by a different genetic Rome than their own Rosal species all this to say boy howdy it worked and in case you’ve never heard of a paaw before or had the delightful pleasure of actually tasting one these are the only tropical tasting fruit that grows areas that it snows the fruit of a paa tastes like a delicious and delightful mixture of bananas and mangoes and oh boy am I excited to have some growing in mine very own garden and behind all of this stuff you can see all the random grapes and other things and I had like 40,000 more other things I wanted to show you but Adam is complaining about all of the itchiness of the asparagus tree frons touching him so let’s get out of here come over here please oh some more garlic before we take a look at the garlic just a quick little Gander at these grapes I have grafted several more popular grocery store versions of grapes onto local grape root stock that I have propagated from local grape root stock from the forest and as you can see they’re starting to thrive and I’m very very excited about that oh cucum melons too ah have you ever seen the world’s tiniest cucumber slw watermelon they’re delicious okay back to the garlic okay so as you can see I have grown enough garlic for the country of Italy over here and that is first of all because I genuinely believe that if a recipe calls for one clove of garlic it really means one head of garlic and these garlics started as seeds back in Washington that I brought here and back in Washington my average garlic head was about this big and here in Tennessee my average garlic head is about the size of a soft ball but you see it all on my baby chick lid thingies from earlier when we were raising baby chicks in the uh giant water troughs reduce for use recycle I had them here we need the garlic to actually sit out in the sun and not get rained on for a little while because if we were to just pluck it right out of the ground and put it away kind of moist like this the garlic would go bad very very quickly so instead we allow it to bake under Hades Hot Sun at the entrance of the garden for a little while and then ultimately once this is all dried to an acceptable level I’ll come in here and clip it all off and put it in some wooden boxes and store it very far away from my baby potatoes and we’ll talk about why in another video then coming into the tunnel sorry Adam this is made for elves we’ve got my very favorite dalas that I carried in my wedding bouquet and have dug up and stolen from every property we’ve ever sold since then already In Bloom my dad and I have a competition every year to see who can get their Doos to bloom first and I won we have all of this cilantro that is going to seed which is technically now coriander two herbs in one plant what a delight and as you can see my sweet little watermelon just starting to grow and I’m so excited watermelon is my absolute favorite food you might actually hear that about a few different foods while we’re here in the garden but everyone’s my favorite except for the ones that aren’t hidden here in the background is an onion stock that I’m saving for seed and so I’m letting these seeds dry out out in the sun so that I can later on plant them where I want them hopefully the wind doesn’t blow too hard in between now and then I suppose I could take it in so I could dry it inside and the seeds might not blow away but that seems like a lot of work and this is in fact lazy gardening there are points in time in any lazy Gardener’s life that are not super HOA friendly and this is one of those times because I don’t want to have to ever come back and plant spinach again I’m just leaving my spinach that went to seed right here in place so it can replant itself but it does look a little crappy in the meantime and of course whatever was munching on some of this or you know affecting some of that is also somewhat affecting my cucumbers here but I don’t really care about that because it’s not going to affect it enough that it’s actually going to be a problem we’re just going to help the cucumber grow up this little trellis here by just doing a little bit of this by the way cucumbers and everything in the cucumb family so squashes pumpkins zucchinis they don’t like to be transplanted so they don’t like to be started as starts and then moved into the soil they far prefer to be planted by seeds and in all honesty they have such a short growth cycle that planting them as seeds as opposed to planting them from Plants will actually not lose you very much time because by the time they’ve recovered from their transplant shock you’ll pretty much be caught up with wherever a seed would have been anyway one of my favorite things about lazy gardening is that there’s no need for crop rotation so though many gardeners will tell you never plant the same crop in the same place season after season I’m like I’m only going to plant the same crop in the same place season after season because I’m never going to come and put seeds down I’m going to let it go to seed and then it’s going to Reed itself case in point these beans yeah we do have a little bit of disease on these leaves here and could that be caused by you know something in the soil from the beans dying here last year absolutely however the soil here is so dang healthy that at this point in the season with this little bit of disease the doubling power of the plant or its ability to create enough solar panels that this disease leaf doesn’t really matter at this point in the season is super high so as you can see as we go up the plant we have tons and tons of fairly healthy foliage I mean you can see here we’ve got a few little munchies from some sort of pest but again because the soil is so healthy the plant is going to be super healthy and it’ll be able to heal itself no matter what happens of course if my donkey howdy gets in here that might cause a little bit more of an issue but barring any Garden terrorists coming in I think will be a [Music] okay man I feel like it’s been so hot while I was gone that I may have like mostly missed raspberry season I can see all these raspberries on the ground but such his life oh my god do you hear Lucy snoring it’s like 4:30 you little dum dum Lucy hi buddy I brought you a treat you can back right off Grenda you have plenty of treats Lucy is the crankiest little grandma that ever did live I love love how like just absolutely worthless and wonderful she is and I will say that that cabbage stock was almost as good ASMR wise as the leftover watermelon rinds that shall be coming soon stay tuned okay you can go back to bed now thanks for thanks for hanging out with us bye buddy over here you can see that I’ve been lying to you this entire time no no weeding no watering just easy lazy gardening there are weeds all over my garden but here’s the thing in a place like this weeds are actually totally fine these weeds are sending down Roots which is breaking up the super compacted soil in my Pathways here their roots are making way for microorganisms to keep crawling around down there and when they die in place they will then provide organic matter for those microbes and the delightful Mycelia we have everywhere to eat as well but I do have a little bit of discernment when it comes to which weeds are okay where all of these weeds here are totally fine actually the reason that they’re even here is because somewhere in my cardboard laying Endeavors this spring this spot somehow missed getting its cardboard and you can actually see that there’s a delightful assortment of both weeds and um well intended things as well this amaranth planted it itself you know the wind blew one time and the seeds spread everywhere but as you can see the amaranth is doing its job it’s being exactly what it is a fantastic pest attractant which then keeps the rest of the plants in my garden protected and in a pathway like this it’s like totally fine to be here until I get sick of it and then I can just slowly just break it off and leave it in place because left to its own devices this amaranth just like many other things in the Garden we’ll get to be 15 ft tall if we don’t you know watch it too closely and as you can see behind me here we have the strawberries doing exactly what I want the strawberries to do competing with the weeds choking out some of their sunlight and spreading ever further into the gardens so that I have more crowns to pick and Transplant come fall when it’s time to plant strawberries but if you look in here you’ll see one weed we absolutely cannot tolerate this right here is Bermuda grass and the problem with Bermuda grass is that every time we break its roots it will send two new Roots out and spread like wildfire this Bermuda grass has been my arch nemesis as I’ve Garden in Tennessee but here’s the thing even Bermuda grass which tends to be pretty successful here in Tennessee’s climate will be less successful when it has less opportunities to actually get access access to light so what I’ll do if I find any is just follow its little rot deep down into the soil as far as I can go without disturbing the roots of my other plants and see if I can pull it up and there we see right there the last place that it diverged in the woods to make more of Satan’s favorite grass here’s a fig here’s a fig here’s a fig thank you $12 raised garden bed made out of scraps you really served me well this year oh I should probably also mention that the reason I put the raised beds here is because actually of the extreme pressure that the Bermuda grass has been putting in from the outside but good news all of that is about to become an orchard and so we’re going to cover all that stuff up with cardboard and that Bermuda grass will in about 3 to 5 Years be byebye Hy what what’s going on over here oh well okay so you know I told you that the shears broke while I was shearing the alpacas the other day so I didn’t get to finish shearing them so I made them a little sprinkler to help them stay cool in the hot weather this week I just feel so bad because it’s so hot and they aren’t the reason that the shears broke so here we are the crappy thing is though that because they’re going to be so wet and then also so muddy is that I will ultimately have a lot more work in ahead of me with regard to washing the fiber we may not water our Gardens but we do water our alpacas only when necessary though I wanted to show you from quintz those little fig babies over there in that raised bed came and here they are this is exactly from where I chopped them all this was a hardy fig that has done phenomenally well this is actually a 2 years ago propagation project that has has done so well here that I was like oh we got to we got to get some more of these and actually funny story one of the side effects of all of my propagation projects is that it has ultimately resulted in a whole lot of a lot of things and the figs were no exception so last year was the first year that I had enough fig bushes that I got a like genuinely measurable fig Harvest and one day Adam was like oh do you want to go out to eat or something and I was like I genuinely cannot because I have eaten myself genuinely sick from figs like I was sick for like three days because I ate so many figs the scarcity mindset is real my friends oh look at this oh my gosh there’s a little little baby frog who’s Pro oh protecting my baby figs look at him he’s so cute he’s like absolutely not o o oh oh okay bye buddy hope you’re find your dad normally I don’t want you to ever see me using a phone on this channel because I want to encourage you to get outside and to get your hands dirty and not look at screens and this is a completely unsponsored promotion by the way of something that I pay the $30 for every single year especially when we’re getting started it is very easy to forget what we planted where and as it starts to come up be like oh my gosh what is this is this a weed or is it good there is an app on your phone that you can get called picture this there’s also one for mushrooms this app will help you to identify plants that you may have misremembered where you planted it’ll help you tell what are weeds and what aren’t weeds but the coolest feature of this app especially for beginner gardeners is that it has a little thing that tells us oh this plant looks sick let’s check for Solutions so having Garden for 12 years I can tell you right off the bat that these yellowing leaves show an obvious lack of nitrogen and that to toally makes sense because this was not even meant to be planted here it must have just like accidentally landed here somewhere and it’s planted directly into the mulch that is on top of the soil and the mulch obviously has no nitrogen in it the n in the NPK formula we hear about all the time when we’re talking about plant fertilizers we could just leave it be or if we wanted to actually fix its extreme lack of nitrogen problem we could do a couple things we could water it with some homemade fertilizer we could add some Redmond mineral soil Builder Plus nitrogen or we could add some compost around it and just rake back the wood chips around it and just put that compost right in place here then replace the wood chips on top of it and as lazy gardeners it’s really helpful to have things like the picture this app which can help us to get better at quickly identifying which plants we have what might be wrong with them and how we can fix it and the more practice we have looking at things and just identifying what’s wrong with them the quicker and better we’ll be able to find Solutions and lazier and lazier and lazier we can become June what are you doing you little goober huh I would like some pets on the [Music] belly whenever you’re ready one of my absolute favorite lazy gardening tips is that if we’re struggling with a very specific kind a very prolific weed in a certain area of our garden we want to look for a more desirable plant that actually looks like the weed that is growing in our garden so this is a pretty perfect example these little pnik grass species are the bane of my existence as a lazy Gardener mercifully I’ve been able to get them mostly under control by doing really hot compost by doing thick layers of cardboard and Mulch and then reapplying very hot composted compost every year but as I was thinking about what this grass actually looks like I was reminded of when I used to live in Thailand and when I lived in Thailand one of the main herbs that we used to flavor our food was lemongrass which by the by looks very very similar to this grass so I went online and I found myself some lemongrass seeds and what do we have here but some very healthy prolifically growing lemon grass that as you can see looks very similar to this less desirable grass species and I planted this lemongrass right where I pulled a whole bunch of this grass up and not surprisingly right here where these weeds were previously thriving the lemongrass is now thriving with no human intervention whatsoever although I did actually put this little thing around it so that anyone else who might be visiting my garden doesn’t accidentally pull it because it truly does look almost exactly like this and I would be real mad if someone pulled up my lemongrass after all this amaranth we’ve showed before is a fantastic trap plant as you can see by all of its munched on leaves it attracts a lot of the pests that might otherwise be munching on some of the stuff that we want to munch on and it also is a really nice pop of purple color it’s actually great for making natural dyes if you’re into that sort of thing and when it goes to seed this is actually also a grain you can actually cook this up like a cereal grain you can dry it and use it as flour I spent many many hours creating some purple flour to make a tortilla once from this and I was so excited because I had finally found my own source of flour that was fun one time and I sh be doing it again here yes well I’m sorry that I’m so good at gardening I seriously think Adam we just need to teach you how to become a gardener so we can tell you what’s okay to step on it’s okay those are fine because those are all strawberry Runners we’ll just literally grab them by the handful we don’t have to be super precious about this cuz as you can see we’re not going to run out anytime soon but seriously you can be so much rougher with plants than people seem to think they can tolerate quite a bit of abuse obviously that’s more true for certain plants than others I mean literally it’s far more efficient for me to just come in here and just genuinely rip these out of my Pathways and then stick these other ones that I’ve pulled out in some soil somewhere then for me to just baby these all summer and like you know tiptoe around them and worry about stepping on them and all that I will say though that if you have super hard compacted soil just ripping things out of the ground like I am right now is probably not going to yield quite the same results part of the reason I’m able to be able to get so much of the root system of these plants is literally because I could just plunge my hand down deep into this soil with very little effort and look at all of that good mycelium as I’m grabbing all these I’m trying to get as many of the roots pointing down as possible so you you know we’ve got the green tops up here and The Roots pointing down so I can just stick these in a bucket of water and you know let those roots continue to grow for a little bit until I figure out where I’m going to put them next you know you can make almost anything into a pickle I certainly can that’s a joke about getting myself into a pickle on the other side of my that whole chaos that we just looked at is my kiwi vines that I am so excited this is a different variety of kiwis that I’ve ever had here before for I have one right here and one right here I got these kiwi and a bunch of other fruit trees and other future propagation experiments from my friends at rre nursery and they are a fantastic source for super weird wonderful things that a lot of other places don’t have one thing I really wish I’d done before I went out of town was pick all my garlic because it is a tad late to pick this but it’s okay we’re just going to walk through the garden and pull whatever we can and there might be a few bad bulbs but I think it should be pretty good so we’re just going to now keep moving on down the line you can tell this soil needs a little reworking oops see that one’s no good we’ll toss that one over to the compost oops oops oh I hit my beehive oh well oh oh this is really fun this right here is my turmeric which when I planted it I did not realize it was going to be a perennial or a plant that comes back every year but that’s so silly to think about because it is planted with bulbs just like the dalas are or anything else what I was worried about though is that you know because it gets pretty cold here it can snow I mean we went to like -3° for a couple days this winter I was sure that it would just kill that stuff in the ground but it’s come back bigger and B every year here we’ve got my Chinese long beans and I am super excited about those though there are not very many Chinese people and not very many options for good Chinese food here in Tennessee mercifully the climate is very similar so I’ve been able to grow a lot of the things that I grew up eating in Asia here in my own garden and this is no exception these things will get to be really long beautiful delicious and delightful beans and little not fact about me I actually speak pretty fluent Chinese I can read and write pretty well and so if there are any Chinese speaking Watchers here here’s a little secret for you that the rest of the audience won’t catch back to the video I’m just going to point out something kind of funny really quick so earlier in this season I got it in my head that I wanted to do basil micro greens so I actually planted basil as if it was a cover crop throughout three entire garden beds and now that it’s coming up and I haven’t been actually harvesting the micro greens it’s going to turn out that I’m going to have a boatload of Basil so I guess we’ll be making a lot of pesto oh here’s one of my absolute favorite cooking tips I love to make pesto and then freeze it in silicone ice cube trays and then break up the ice cubes after they’re frozen put them in a Ziploc bag and put them in the freezer and then every time I go to make something that would be spruced up by a nice bit of pesto I’ll pull out an ice cube or two toss it in the dish and then there you go Taste Of Summer in the middle of winter and delish Delight all those things let’s take a look at the Brassica patch as you can see there has been a slight amount of pest damage in here but honestly not enough to actually worry about and one of my favorite ways to just kind of deal with a the extreme proximity issue we have here because I planted things so close together and B that pest damage itself is to just grab the most damaged leaves and put them into the chicken bucket as I’m walking past I’ll also probably get the majority of the larvae and the bugs that are in there munching anyway and in doing that I’m able to save so much of this stuff from the damage that comes from not wanting to you know put those little white coverlets on and off or vacuum bugs off my plants like some weird YouTuber tells you to do and those kinds of things lazy is always best plus it’s not like I’m going to let my chickens come in here and it’s always good to get a little extra free food for those little jerks though they don’t deserve it I probably massively overdid it on the lettuce this year because I had this amazing buttercrunch salad when I was visiting my friend or in Wisconsin last year and I was like I am going to plant so much butter crunch lettuce next year and here we are it is just as delicious as I had hoped and it has absolutely encouraged me to eat more lettuce than I normally would and as I’m picking this take note that I’m actually leaving the roots of the salad in the ground and that is Lally just giving me another chance to have another crop it probably won’t be as good because I’m breaking the cardinal rule of if you want your plant to return in full Vigor you don’t ever want to pick more than onethird of the plant at a time but if I were out here carefully selecting each little piece of lettuce and making sure that I’m leaving plenty behind it would take me 6 hours to pick my salad and we’re lazy gardeners not full-time gardeners I want to come in get my dinner and get out as we are making this transition from early spring into summer it’s going to start getting real hot here in Tennessee and as as that happens this bed of lettuce will have to go bye-by because once it starts getting really hot this lettuce will start getting really really wilty and then it will want to bolt which means it’ll want to put up seeds but even before that happens especially as we’re doing my favorite method of pick and pick again here there’s something really interesting that happens at the base of the plant so check out this plant right here as opposed to this plant so you know what I noticed on this one we’ve got a lot of really close growing foliage and then on this one it’s already started to really spread out then also on this one there is a very little bit of white stuff right there at the base of where I plucked the leaves but on this one there is a ton of this milky white stuff coming out this little white stuff appears on a ton of vegetables like lettuce and cucumbers and this is an indication of bitterness so this lettuce plant is done because if it’s got that much white milkiness then the lettuce that’s going to come off of it is going to taste really really bitter so we’ll pull that one and toss it in our chicken Bucket over here and they can enjoy the bitterness who cares if they don’t like it you get what I give you little jerks oh my gosh as I was picking my lettuce I realized that I finally got one of my artichoke seeds to actually germinate without having to do anything and this is very exciting AR chokes are my absolute favorite vegetable I actually full disclosure don’t really like a lot of vegetables but I grow them and eat them because they’re supposed to be good for you or whatever but you know what’s even better beef man this is the most perfect little beautiful head of lettuce that’s what we like perfect oh my land I guess we’ll make a salad tonight a garlic and lettuce salad we’re just going to quickly walk past this tomato plant and as we do let me just remind everyone here that tomato cages really suck I really don’t recommend using them for tomatoes I really like using them for cucumbers and other things but I haven’t gotten my little trellis system set up yet which is why the dalas are also so out of control and so while I was walking past this I just plunked this little guy down and since I’m here I figured I would do a tiny amount of trimming and while I’m trimming here’s my favorite tomato tip well actually there’s two tips my real favorite tomato tip is that if you have any friends who Garden ask them to grow your tomatoes for you and offer to grow something far easier and less high maintenance and more fun to grow and then you just plant you know a couple sungold tomato plants and snack on those little baby Tomatoes all season long then when it’s time to can you just go over to your friends and be like okay I’m ready to get my six boxes of tomatoes to can now and that’s worked really really well for me for the last few seasons and I will say too that the trade is very much in their favor so I’ve made it worth their while but the Other Tomato tip that I love is that when you are actually trim trimming your Tomatoes these little pieces that you might just pluck right off actually can be made into their very own new tomato plants let me show you how so I’m gonna pull off all the bottom leaves here and make sure that there’s no little uh you can see where there’s some flowers coming up those flowers are going to take a ton of energy from the plant so we don’t want to let that happen so we’re going to pinch that right off like that and now we’re going to take this entire stem here we need a nice long piece because we want this to make Roots we are going to kind of round it oops well we’re going to take this long stem and we are going to go put it in some soil and this will turn into a hole new tomato plant if we’re just planting this in the ground we want to just plant this as deep as we possibly can but since I’m planting it in this container I’m going to try to round it around in the container so that there is as much surface area of that stem actually touching soil and once I’ve gotten it stuck in there a little bit I’m going to grab some Mulch and once those roots get established in there this to tomato plant will grow very fast because it will have a really really wellestablished root system with very little plant exposed up here at the top so if you do want to grow your very own tomato plants and you didn’t get any seeds started and you want to save about 40 bucks on tomato plants you can call up your local Gardener friend and be like hey can I come over while you’re trimming your tomato plants next week and bada bing bada boom you’ve got a great head start on your very own tomato season I wanted to come back to to the scene of a crime if you watched our start a lazy Garden from scratch a no weed no water garden I promised you in that video that we were not going to touch this Garden again until it was time to come back and harvest and I can see that there has been a few casualties not of a lack of watering actually but hilariously because Jeffrey our least favorite male goat who likes to have orgies in the most inopportune times also happened to find a little entrance into the Garden area and came through and absolutely eviscerated a lot of the plants that I had planted in my first lazy Garden so it’s not that it didn’t succeed because of laziness it didn’t super succeed because of that little jerk Jeffrey however I would like to say that we’ve got some Tomatoes happening we’ve got a pepper that I clearly planted way too close to the Tomato oh it’s because you know this is falling over the celery probably could be doing better this lettuce is about to bolt but no problem because I don’t like the way this lettuce tastes even when it’s good as you can see our melium has started to totally eat all of the wood chips who put in here and speaking of eating things that little jerk Jeffrey came in and ate the heads off of all the broccoli we had planted some of the broccoli is starting to recover a little bit although it is quite pathetic more pathetic broccoli here some celery that’s fairing a little bit better but not that much better than the other celery some more slightly munched on Broccoli it probably has gotten some cabbage worms or whatever we’ll just pick that yucky Leaf off and leave the rest of the solar panels to do their thing but most importantly we’ve got healthy looking tomatoes on all of these plants that full disclosure I did not trellis and just pulled them up off of the actual ground so it kind of is impressive that they haven’t been more damaged but you know I was busy I was out of town sometimes we need to be able to be lazy and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t so the moral of this story is I can teach you how to make a lazy Garden where your soil is super healthy so you have Pest and disease resistant plants to where you very rarely if ever have to weed or water your garden but if you’ve got a Jeffrey in your life I don’t really know what to tell you about that except if you want to start doing some lazy gardening of your own check out my Squarespace website I have got a stepbystep how-to article there along with 12 years of collected gardening homesteading and woodworking because that just fits right in their knowledge and all of the hard-earned lessons I’ve collected along the way are right there on my Squarespace blog so that you can avoid some of the 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squarespace.com anof alltrades for a 10% discount think it’s about time we cook up some veggies from the garden so we’ll light a fire and do that and because let’s be honest vegetables on their own are disgusting we’re going to add some Chantels and some beef that we grew right here on the farm and cook it all up in some homegrown butter hello June June’s very excited about this Prospect as well in our last video we talked about mushroom forging and finding medicinal plants and also even just collecting things from the forest to make our very own homemade fertilizer if you would like to check that video you can click over here and I will see you there thank you so much for being here see you soon cheers [Music]