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[Applause] A good morning welcome to Yellow door Urban host there I am Asia and I’m an Urban Gardener growing in a small space in my backyard so today we are in the garden a lot of people have said they missed the garden you know what I missed the garden too problem is I was

Sick and it was cold so I’m making some basil tea London Sunshine sent me an induction cook top so like I’m pretty excited about it um you know it’s cold outside it warmed up a little bit out here now it is what time 11:07 and at this point the temperature

Has risen I’m sure we’re in the 40s but even the 40s are cold to me actually we’re in the ‘ 50s anyway I made some tea um because like I brought it outside and it’s going to be pretty awesome cuz I can leave it on a low setting today

While I’m out here cuz I plan to get a lot done out here today but I’m going to take you all on a uh Garden Tour since you haven’t really seen the garden so I’m going to take you on a garden tour but I thought that it would be pretty

Cool to have this outside with me um and then the water can stay warm it’s outside I don’t have to keep going inside and taking my boots off and putting my boots back on um but also thinking about the holidays coming up um like I said it is movable so I can use

It inside too um and so like if I have something that I need to keep warm but I don’t have space on my stove during the holidays um I could use this so I’m thinking like I’m really going to enjoy using this um and it couldn’t have come

At a better time especially while it’s cold and so you know I could be outside have my water still warm remake my tea you know coffee if you use instant coffee you could do it um it does plug in and it does have specific pots and

Pans and things that it will work with I tried to use my glass kettle it did not work my glass tea kettle it didn’t work and then I believe I tried to use a ceramic pot also did not work so they do tell you though what will and will not

Work with it um so those are the things that will and will not work so there will be a link down below to this product if you are interested in it I do believe there’s a discount code if there is of course I’ll put that down

There too but I think it’s I think it’s pretty awesome like I’m pretty excited about about having it it’s also a really good option for holidays if you’re going to be hosting a holiday most stoves I know my stove only have four SS you get

Two s eyes it’s eyes isn’t it I’m pretty sure it’s eyes anyway let’s go get started on the garden tour it’s not a lot that’s changed but I figured you all might want to see it so if you are new here I am an Urban

Gardener and I grow in my backyard I am in Virginia Zone 7B you can see behind me I have chickens I have quail and I’m homesteading in a normal Urban setting I’m out in the sun now this hat might have to come off we might have to go in

The house and put a little wrap cuz I ain’t done no edges um not not this early so we’re going to go on a tour of the garden there are things that need to be harvested and that’ll probably be in another video that way I can get a

Saturday and a Wednesday video up for the first time in like I don’t know how long um in the fall because if you are new here again I don’t like the cold and so listen out here you know in this Garden in the cold I don’t do it I sat

And watch my phone this morning I watched it and I watched the temperature and I was like I’m not going outside till it’s at least 45 degrees so you probably also going to start getting videos if they outside with the sun I do apologize guys but I have to do it when

It is comfortable for me okay yeah we had to take the hat off I turned the coat off but now I’m feeling a little chilly so I left the coat on my body but I turned it off and I forgot to link it someone said where is the link to the

Coat so I will make sure I link the coat um uh my son got it for me it’s from Home Depot and it warms up so I still have it on but I turned it off I have a hoodie on I have tights on I got all

Kinds of stuff on cuz I don’t like the cold but I was getting way too warm with the head on anyway let’s talk a little bit about my fall Garden so my fall Garden I’m growing in pretty much all the beds except for one that is like

Pretty much shaded all day and I’m probably not going to grow much in it anyway I have 10 beds um in all some of them are raised some of them are INR some of them are no dig um but how I take care of it in the fall it’s very

Much a you know a small amount it’s not a lot of work in the fall I do steal water in the fall because someone had asked me like how often do I water in in the fall I may be water one to uh two times a week in the fall but I’m always

Going to do a finger test first um and I used to get mixed up with like Cold Soil and and for me that equaled moist soil but it wasn’t the case um it it was cold but it wasn’t moist so I do still water

In the fall I don’t water as much in the winter but if I come out here put my finger in the soil and it is dry um or or not moist I will say um then I will water it um I do fertilize in the fall I

Use fishy motion um fishy motion is very high in nitrogen the white chicken if you’re new here I have a white chicken she is a um Americana she she is my problem child um I feel like she’s about to jump up on the enclosure she got down but she normally

Jumps up on the enclosure and she uh jumps into the garden we had to get her out the other today but she got down thankfully when I came out this morning well you saw she was up on the top ready to jump down anyo I do fertilize I use fishy motion it’s very

High in nitrogen most of the Fall plants are leafy leafy greens um and so nitrogen is very good for leafy greens I do also fertilize my root vegetables but I do a diluted amount of fish emultion for them because they don’t need as much nitrogen um what am I growing in my

Garden I have cabbage karabi broccoli Swiss chard kale um onions and garlic that and carrots and turnips and I think the turnips that well the plants that I thought were rudaba they were actually turnips and I’ll show you that um my artichokes are still living well The Greenery of the

Arch chokes are still living I have pansies for a pop of color and my ridiculously annoying uh flower bed all of my bags are covered with leaves I don’t grow in the bags in the fall um and then I have a vgo garden bed that I refilled which I put the chicken

Bedding and the things that’s in the run into that Garden some unfinished compost into the GU um into that bed not the garden into the garden bed um and so that’ll break down and I’ll be able to use it in spring so I think that’s kind of everything as it relates to taking

Care of the G Garden um my Collard and kale I don’t think I said collards my collards and kale I harvest that as a cut and come again so I leave the plants all fall all winter they will grow slower but they will grow and I can

Harvest from them the whole fall in all of winter um I have leaks still in the garden they are from I don’t know how long ago I am going to start harvesting them and everyone keeps telling me about leak and potato soup so I’mma to make

Some of that I know y’all sick of me talking hope it was helpful let’s look at the Garden so one last thing that may interest you is as far as care I water with a uh sprinkler right now broke farmer I watch him all the time and he

Brought out his sprinkler early in fall and I was like you have a sprinkler and someone did ask about getting the leaves wet the fall plants the cold hearty plants they don’t they don’t it doesn’t bother them to have their leaves wet it’s the spring plant where wet leaves

Moist leaves in a humid area that’s where disease and um you know different things can grow and so in Fall the fall plants that doesn’t bother them um I’ve been watering them with a sprinkler for quite some time now and they’re all doing just fine so in the spring and the

Summer in my area where we’re very humid very hot I wouldn’t recommend it but in the fall it is no problem watering overhead where the leaves get wet let’s start right here the Swiss Chard is not very happy right now and if you remember like this one here and this one here and

One died I moved them late in the season and I mentioned that I didn’t know if they would you know survive but I’m still going to leave them because if the roots Aren’t Dead um when it warms back up you’ll start to see them grow again

If the roots Aren’t Dead and we have you the leaks here um like I said they’ve been in for a while but they’re looking pretty good um like I said I’m going to harvest these and start to uh use them I really want to try the leak and potato

Soup that everyone keeps telling me about but those are those are the leaks then behind the leaks we have all of these plants here are broccoli and this one is ready to go I can Harvest that now and I probably will I’ve been watching because you don’t want them to

Start opening like you see a little bit of yellow in this I’m going to harvest it because the thing with broccoli is what you’re eating are really flowers that have not opened up yet and so when it when they open this is where you would get your seeds from that you can

Save to plant again um but if you are wanting to eat it for broccoli you want to do it when the heads are still tight and so you can see I’m trying to get this as close as I can we have them you know they’re a little bit yellowy which

Means they’re about to start opening and that’s not what I want I want to eat this there are broccoli heads on all of the plants at this point all of the plants have broccoli heads I’m excited about that got one right there another one there so I planted a lot of broccoli

This year because I wanted to have a lot to harvest I’m hoping that before winter gets here that you know all of those are mature enough and I can go ahead and harvest them and preserve them I said I wanted to have a lot to harvest I meant

Preserve and those aren’t the only broccolis in the garden I will show you the rest of the broccolis but literally every plant in the garden even the Shaded ones have a head on them and I’m so excited beside the broccoli in that bed there’s cabbage I’m not a great

Cabbage grower but it does feel like it’s getting um a little stiff that one so that’s a plus this is a Collard plant there’s another cabbage back here looking a little yellow honestly so we’ll probably go ahead and fertilize see it’s not as dark green as it should

Be so it we’ll probably fertilize today um that head is doing nothing it’s also getting eaten there’s another cabbage over here which let me see if I can get to it and yeah it’s getting a little tight so that’s a plus and this is a Collard

Plant that I moved a while ago um and it’s taking time to get bigger and to grow but clearly it’s still alive there’s a little bit of purpling on it when you see purple on a plant that’s not a purple variety that is normally some type of nutrient deficiency or it’s

The cold and that plant I’m thinking it’s the C cold because everything else in the bed is looking fine except for that other cabbage um but that other cabbage is also close to both ends of the bed and so it dries out a little bit quicker um and so we’re going to go

Ahead and water today we’re going to fertilize today we’re going to do all of that but when you are seeing purple it could be cold or it could be a nutrient deficiency next bed I always talk about my kabi these are definitely ready to go

I’m probably going to have to to um cut off a good amount of the outside cuz I imagine it’s it’s going to start to get Woody they’re huge but we’re going to harvest those when we do Harvest that’s one nice corabi there here is the other Cori I mean they’re huge look they’re

Really big so we’re going to harvest those we are behind the corabi you have this is a Collard plant that I moved and so we’re just going to give it some Time same thing here that’s a Swiss chart that I moved and then we have a line of

Cabbage and this cabbage looks like it’s big but it’s not heading up I’m going to have to do some research on cabbage cuz I have never been good at growing cabbage and then you have more collar plants back here which we’re going to go ahead and harvest cuz those leaves are

Pretty big and while I may not eat it the same day that I harvest it collards and and kale are so easy to preserve same thing with cabbage honestly because you can cook cabbage and freeze it um so yeah all the things in the fall Garden are easy to preserve quick to preserve

In my opinion and so we have more broccoli that’s a broccoli head there broccoli head in there broccoli head in there so 100% excited about the broccoli broccoli to me has been very easy to grow so much much easier than cabbage I have grown maybe two cabbages my whole

Entire time gardening and they weren’t amazing and behind those broccoli you have that pretty kale that everyone’s asking me the variety of and I’m going to have to be honest I really don’t know the variety like I If you if you’re not new here you know that I started my fall

Garden from starts this year uh because I did miserably starting seeds not that I don’t know how it was that I did not take care of them as I should and they all end up dying um so if I can find the tag somewhere because there’s some more

Over in in another bed if I can find the tag then I’ll absolutely tell you what these this variety is um and if I end up stopping by the local feed and seed store that I got it from I’ll ask them if they know what the purple variety was

That they were selling this year cuz I honestly I don’t know and so so over in this next bed you have some more cabbage see I can’t grow it it don’t stop me from um don’t stop me from planting it um and then you have more kabi that’s

Starting to bulb up over here and this is a very shaded bed but it’s growing just growing slower and then there’s some Swiss chard in here as well I love to eat Swiss chart and like Ramen and when I say Ramen I mean o and noodles that I fix

Up but yeah I put some meat in some oodles and noodles and some greens and some different seasoning and it is delicious and so that’s how I eat my Swiss chart most of the time in a good ramen it’s delicious on the other side of that bed we have more broccoli and

There is a head in there y’all see it yay and there’s another one there woohoo one in there and one in there like super excited I don’t even know how many plants that is but I’m super excited just to know that eventually this year I’m going to have all of this

Broccoli to preserve and to eat fresh depending on the day right in front of that broccoli that I just showed you there are more collared plants growing a little bit slower but they look good um there’s a little bit of yellowing on it but like I said I need to fertilize out

Here I have not done that in quite some time and then we’re right back here to some more Swiss chard and more uh kabi over here you got the compost pile y’all yall I don’t know why I cannot give myself the motivation these bags need to

Be put in here I need to dig down in the middle put this stuff down in there um cleaned out the quail tote a little uh well maybe a week or so ago so we got some of the quail bedding in there there’s grass over there in those bags

That need to go in here but for some reason I cannot find my motivation for that compost pile I don’t know why I need to though because spring will be here before I know it and I’ll be at somebody’s store buying compost for no

Reason at all and like I said all of the bags are covered with leaves like literally all of the bags are covered with leaves in the fall I will come back I will uh amend them just like I amend the beds and that’s how we’ll start to grow in the bags again

Um I said for fall I think I meant for spring when spring comes around then we’ll go ahead and amend these bags with like um a granulated fertilizer that’s you know like slow release well probably maybe bone meal and blood Mill it depends I didn’t use a lot of additives

This spring like I didn’t use a lot of additives I didn’t use a lot of different fertilizers I kept it basic and my Spring Garden was pretty awesome um I I didn’t want to keep spending all that money um and and honestly because I’m not going to get my soil tested I

Was adding things not even knowing if it needed it so I kind of kept it basic to a um to a allpurpose granulated fertilizer that released over time fishy mtion I use fish emultion I did use bone meal in some places like root vegetables potatoes things like that the things I

Know they need but I’m really just trying to not you know use so much stuff not even knowing if that’s what my garden needs and so this is the bed well that’s the vgo garden bed I told you I wasn’t using cuz I’m amending it essentially this is the other bed that’s

Like pretty much shaded all day so I don’t see the the point of um trying to grow something in it the chicken like I said got out the other day she scratched everything up I do need to cover it cuz I want the soil to stay covered I need

To put it back U but I just haven’t gotten around to it and so one thing you need to know for a fall Garden is your sun is not the same as the spring and the summer the sun is way higher in the sky in the summer than it is in the fall

And in the winter so when you’re deciding to plant um you know kind of pay attention to where the sun is because that bed in the summer gets a good amount of sun like I can grow things in that bed in the summer I can’t

Grow in that in the fall and and that’s fine so over here we have mint which I’m probably going to cover with a little more leaves because this stuff is probably going to die out soon when it gets too cold but everything over here in this section is perennial it will

Come back um but I I still want to cut it down so like right here this is huge this is a this is a blueberry bush so I won’t be doing anything with that right now I’ll do it in the spring um but I want to cut all of this stuff down and

Then get some leaves over it like I’ve done the bags until spring comes then over here you have the garlic that has sprouted and is coming up and so the last time I mentioned the garlic I was saying like it already came up and people was like is that a bad thing so

It’s not a bad thing I didn’t have great success last year because I think I planted them too early and I personally didn’t want them to start sprouting until it warmed up again because um I’m thinking and when I say I didn’t have good good success I didn’t have ESS in a

Way that I would have been able to store them but I absolutely made uh garlic powder and I’m still using that but I would like some for fresh eating um and so mine had started to separate when when I went to harvest them and so that was something I wouldn’t be able to

Store so no it is not a bad thing if your garlic has already started sprouting this is me trying to test in my area in which I think I really need to plant them I’m going to say like end of November early December and that’s

What I’m going to try next year but it is not a bad thing if your garlic already started sprouting and so in the middle bed if you remember we transplanted some lettuce it doesn’t look good it looks very stunted but we’re still going to leave it also when

The chicken got out she dug that area up and I was like come on girl so um it’s okay we have other lettuce over here and that’s where that lettuce came from because this lettuce was being shaded by these plants and so I was just trying to

Move them um it was a little late but we’re still going to leave it and see what happens cuz just like I said with the Swiss chard um if the roots Aren’t Dead they will start to grow again as long as the whole plant roots and all

Don’t die and so right beside the lettuce is another collar that I had moved kind of late and you can see that it’s purpling I honestly think it’s mostly because of the cold that my my my my immature plants like this one as well is one that I move I think that’s why

It’s purpling um and so here I think I was telling y’all they were rudaba those are turnips those are purple top turnips and that’s one we could Harvest and eat so those are the few turnips that we had uh we have carrots right here um and

I started these from seeds in the bed pretty excited that that worked out for me and this whole row is carrots uh it’s a little cold like I said it’s kind of cold so we are leaving those as well cuz carrots can stay alive over the cold

Period um and they can stay in the ground too once the ground freezes it’ll be hard for you to get them out um but carrots that have had a frost are sweeter that’s that’s what they say carrots is not my thing so I I can’t say

It from experience but I can say that that’s what all of the research says so right beside the carrots are some collards that I had planted out late or moved late which is fine um and then we have a turnup look at that needs to be harvested that’s a turnup right there

Hope you can see it it’s a white turnup and it definitely needs to be harvested and these um I did not get them uh thinned out early enough so they all became very laggy I don’t know how many turnips I actually get but but that’s fine like I said for me gardening

Is like a fun thing to do I’m excited when I grow something I’m excited to see The Greenery in turnips you can eat the greens off of them so even if you don’t get the bulb turnip greens are they’re edible and right beside the turnips are more collards that I had

Moved so I learned that you know I probably want to get my radishes in in a little bit earlier because I don’t eat them raw anyway so if they are like super spicy I wouldn’t know because I roast them in the oven and so that takes

Out the anise taste anyway so um yeah I’m probably going to plant my radishes earlier so I can get them out of the bed earlier and anything that I want to replace them with because radishes are very quick growing uh vegetables anything I want to replace them with I

Can get them in a little bit earlier too and then we have another bed here this is a cabbage collar and someone was like I never heard of it me either got it from my local feed that’s another cab uh cabbage Collard then you have collards

Down here and some kale as well so that’s all doing good again everything is looking wild because it needs to be it needs to be harvested the larger leaves definitely lead to be harvested I found that larger leaves of some plants don’t do super well when you get a hard

Freeze and we’ve been down into the 20s already um in December that’s normally a January or February thing for us um and so I I’ve learned that I’ve noticed that so I like I said I was sick and so everything that’s out here is just it

Was just out here but it did just fine it is the strawberry bed which you know we went ahead and thinn these out I’ll probably get some leaves and put them over it I’m not going to cut them down or anything I’m just going to throw some

Leaves over top of it and then here you have another bed this is that broccoli that we moved um very stunted and then you have collards and kale and collards and kale so that is the garden tour you can see the orchard behind me which ain’t looking like much because it’s

Fall everything is kind of dying out all of the herbs are still you know living and Alive over there um but it’s that time of year that stuff is dying out so I hope you enjoyed this video if you did don’t forget to like share subscribe don’t forget to visit me over on

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