Cold Weather Plants Still Producing | Garden Tour

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Garden Tour
01:45 – In Ground Beds
11:55 – What’s Next for the Rose Garden
12:49 – King Henry Violas
13:11 – Thanks for Watching

So, I wanted to do this quick video right here. 
So, we are in Georgia zone 8A, the Atlanta area, and the temperatures have been steadily dropping, 
but I want to take you around some parts of the garden, let you see what’s going on. Right here, 
we’re in our herb garden. The colundula has really been doing good. This is our medicinal colundula. 
This is what we use in um our salves and teas. For it to be 2829, they’ve been doing well. Um, I see 
a lot of flower buds still forming. I’m going to come in and start harvesting what I can. I always 
grow colundula here in Georgia in the spring and the fall because here when it gets like hot and 
humid, they don’t do as well. Now, if you all remember, and I’m going to try to link that video, 
we just planted up this space right here. And when you’re in the fall and the winter, because we’re 
losing, we don’t have as many hours of daylight, things are going to grow, but it’s going to grow 
at a real slow pace. So, I don’t expect these to like have um like all of a sudden a grow growth 
spurt because the temperatures are dropping. But right here, we planted the rest of the collards. 
There is some cilantro that I started from seed. Um, I want to say this is flocks up here. And 
then, no, it’s not flocks, y’all. It’s dianths. And right here is a type of salvia right 
here that I cut back and planted. But again, make sure you hit the subscribe button because um 
when it starts to get around March, then this bed right here is going to start growing. But right 
now it’s in the ground and is growing and it’s growing at a slow pace. So these are our cowards 
that are growing. This was the first year that we actually grew them. The cowards are a cross 
between kale and collards. Um and we hit that first frost a few weeks ago, y’all. And I came out 
here and I harvested some and they were so good. Um I’m definitely going to continue to grow these 
right here. As you can tell, this took a little bit of wind, a little cold damage right here and 
right here. But these are good. I I must say that they’re very good. I don’t know if I’m going to 
dedicate like a whole patch or a whole bed to them, but these are so good. Um, over here, I’m 
going to try to put the picture up. I harvested some of the deal and we are making fermented uh 
deal dill pickles uh with the cucumbers. Now, I did have to buy the cucumbers, but I did use 
my own dill, my own bay leaves, and my own garlic um in order to ferment them, but they’re still 
continuing to grow even with that 29° weather. Um let me just step back cuz y’all know I’m going 
to show you the good, the bad, and the ugly. So this is the fern leaf lavender that we started 
from seed. It does not like low temperatures. We got other varieties of lavender that is growing 
in the garden and is doing well and is actually getting new growth. But now I know because this is 
my first time growing this variety now that I know it does not like it doesn’t tolerate like cold 
cold weather. I think we got down to uh upper 20s a few weeks ago and this is what it looked like. 
Now I’m trying to debate, do I want to cut it back and see if it’ll come back? Remember I said this 
is a lavender. Like a lot of lavenders I grow for culinary purposes and to be able to put in our tea 
blends, but this is not one of those. This one is very pungent. It’s like a different You could tell 
it’s lavender, but it’s a different smell. And I think that it’s it will overpower our tea blends. 
So, I use this mainly for um companion planting and to confuse the pest because it does have that 
strong pungent smell like you don’t even want to come over here and mess with it. So, I want to 
show y’all the front row right here. What’s going on? We’ve been having some pest pressure. And I’ll 
be honest, y’all, I have not been able to get out here and come and see what’s going on. But we got 
our cabbages uh over here taking a little bit of pest pressure. Um this is the Bon Bon colundula 
again on this side that’s taking a little cold hit. And then if you look right down here, I’m 
going to try to get here. We still got our kabi growing. Um, one of the videos back I was growing 
the uh white kabi in another bed and we had uh some pest that literally burrowed a hole and took 
it out. So, this is the purple kabi right here. It’s putting on growth, but remember your fall 
and winter gardening because we don’t have as many uh we’re losing daylight hours. the temperatures 
are dropping, so everything is not going to grow as fast as in the spring and the summer. And then 
I’m seeing some pest issues with our pansies right here. I’m actually going to start some more from 
seed um and get those going over the next few weeks so that when spring comes, we can switch out 
a lot of things. And then we also have our oregano that is here. I cut this back really hard. I cut 
it back hard and it is starting to come back. So y’all remember we’re going into winter, but I just 
wanted to show you some of the inground beds that we did. I cut back this flocks very hard. I cut 
it back. I planted some dusty millers and I cut some of the dianths back hard, but you can see 
that it’s coming back as well. Um, I cut some of the This is the the Cat Mint, but it’s a a brand 
by Proven Winners. Cat’s Pajamas. That’s what it is. Cat’s Pajamas. I cut this back, but I’m going 
to cut it back again. And you see like these stems right here. I’m going to cut this back. I’m going 
to cut all of this back so that it can mound right here. And then we had a little bit of yarao to 
come back right here. But again, make sure you hit the subscribe button. Stay tuned as to what we’re 
going to plant here because I know come spring, I’m going to put some taller plants in the back. I 
did have three cone flowers in two separate beds, and it looks like this is the only one that 
you can see right here that made it. Okay. The very lettuce that I didn’t think would survive 
below freezing, they did. These are the ones that we have in our grow kit, y’all, and they are 
doing well. Um, more lettuce right here. And then this is the broccoli rob. And this is the 
spinach mustards. I’ll tell you about this one right here. I came out one night, probably about 
two weeks ago, and it was slugs all over it. So, I had to put down um I actually put like food 
grade diet tomatous earth, but I will tell you that it has rained since then and I have not came 
out to reapply. Um the broccoli rob right here, if I get closer, it’s starting to do what it 
want to do, but I got to I got to watch those temperatures because the broccoli rob you have 
to for me here in the Atlanta area, you have got to get the timing exactly right. If it’s too 
cold, it won’t make it. And if it’s too hot, it will bolt and go to seed. But I see just 
a little bit starting to form. And I actually learned about broccoli rob while staying in 
Naples, Italy. I tasted it one time. I was like, it’s okay. But I tasted it again and it kind of 
reminds me um they also cook the leafy greens, too. It kind of reminds me of collards um with 
just a little twist. So, um, I’m just going to keep an eye on this. I cannot tell y’all how many 
times I’ve been harvesting lettuce from all over the garden. This was another bed that I thought 
that once we hit below 32, it wouldn’t make it, but these have been doing good. And what’s so 
amazing, y’all, is the fact that I just come and just harvest a little of this, a little of this, a 
little arugula, and I mix it all together and chop it, and it is so amazing. So, I want to show y’all 
some of the inground beds really quickly. This is our garlic chives. This is what we um harvest the 
flowers. And then we’re saving seeds. I’m actually in a probably about a week I’m going to start um 
shaking the bag again, harvesting the seeds, and then testing the germination. This was our aspera 
brock right here. And then we had our red spinach. And then this is our purple broccoli right here. 
Now, I want y’all to go ahead. I want you to hit the subscribe button because I want to um make 
sure and make sure you hit the notifications because I’m going to do a video about some of the 
uh different plants, different things you can grow and depending on your growing zone and your first 
fall frost and your last spring frost that you can still grow over the winter season. Now, I must 
show y’all this bed over here because this is the bed where we used for Thanksgiving the collards. 
We harvested all of our collards from this bed. And I’m going to turn around right here. We 
harvested some collards from this bed. So, we kind of did a mix because these are two uh 
different varieties, but um they’re starting to grow back from where we harvested them. 
And then the lettuce still is growing strong. So the spinach looks very sparse because this is 
where I come a lot of mornings harvest my spinach and use to make omelets. So I harvest the outside 
leaves and I let the inside continue to grow. But we’ve been harvesting a lot of spinach. And 
probably spring, I’m going to kick it up a notch and maybe put more in another bed because I really 
have been enjoying um this spinach right here and just being able to use it. Okay, so this bed right 
here is more of the Bon Bon colundula that I need to come in and just kind of clean up a little bit. 
Um, we got snapd dragons right here. And we have a lot of turnup and turnup greens that we need to 
harvest. And if you all remember, um, I think I had peas right here, but we had a few more aspar 
left, so I just placed them right here. And then these are the baby beets right here. And then our 
zatar and our pansies. And again, I just like to do flowers, vegetables, herbs. So, I didn’t want 
to keep this video too long, but I just wanted to show you what the garden is looking at looking 
like now that we’re starting to get down in the like 20s in the morning times. Um, and I think the 
highs are like 50, 53, but when you look on the weather app, it always says it feels like it’s 45 
or it feels like it’s 36. And that is true because I’m like without it being any sun that can kind 
of warm up uh a little bit. It does feel that way and it actually feels a little bit colder. Now, 
what I want y’all to do again, hit the subscribe button because over the winter, even if I got 
to come in and even if I got to put a coat on, I want to start um paying more attention to the rose 
garden. And I’m going to take you all along that. I got to do some weed eating. Um Chris and I were 
talking. I don’t know if I want to put wood chips down or like the pebble rock or lay bricks as 
the um pathways. So y’all make sure y’all put it in the comments because when it rains often times 
the wood chips can get washed away um and then we have to keep reapplying it. So, I was telling him 
the other day, I wonder if we can get someone in here to like either lay brick or pavers or maybe 
even pebbles. So, if you have any suggestions, put that in the comment because that’s something 
that I’m going to be working on next season. And really quick, the King Henry violas that we 
started from seed, y’all. So, they’re starting to bloom. You got to be careful because we got some, 
y’all know I don’t like to call them weeds, but we got some plants that are in here that I don’t like 
that look very similar, but these are not supposed to be here. So, I just try to come in every now 
and then and pull those up. But, we actually started these from seed. Always. Thank you all so 
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