This happens when you have a good garden plan

This is what happens when you have a good garden plan.
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Good morning everybody and welcome back to Sandy Bottom Homestead it is a chilly day in coastal North Carolina it’s 45° last night we got to I’d say about 37 but it rained all night which we didn’t expect or I didn’t expect cuz I’ve been sleeping on the weather

Forecast but I want to show you a couple things that I’ve got going on in the garden and we’re going to be clearing out some space and you know I’m testing a few things just to kind of see if what we all have read and heard is true real

Quick before we get started if you want one of those custom seed starting charts just email us at Sandy Bottom Homestead gmail.com let us know and we will get you going it is not free cuz we do them by hand but it is an affordable price

And it is a good start to get you going in your garden the garden’s doing well it’s um you know I don’t think the winter is going to get too too bad but it’s still early yet we’ve got another solid I’d say about a month before things really kind of start to turn

Around but it just it hasn’t been terrible yet so we want to clear out because my goal is to get this bed empty and I need to get the greenhouse emptied out a little bit so we can get our carlex cabbages in in about a week

Or two and we’re just going to keep harvesting away at this I’ve got uh my bee Mentor who’s helping me with my beehives he’s going to be having surgery soon so I’m going to set him up with some groceries and hopefully it’ll just help him get through a little bit and

We’ll just kind of hopefully it’ll help him but um they really enjoy the organic produce and so I’m happy to give it to them but we’ve got a couple things going on in two of our beds that I want to show you this is the broccoli bed which

Was an epic fail to just epic proportions and what I did with this bed and what was my rudaba bed is I came out here and you can see we got got fresh chicken doodo on there so I put this on here just to kind of let it sit until we

Go to plant now we’ve all read and heard that you can’t put fresh chicken crap on a garden bed and you need to age it so the goal is to put it out here early let it age let it get the weather Let the Rain hit it work it into the soil and

Just break it down we get it when we clean out our chicken Co and uh I thought I wasn’t going to have enough and I had way more than I needed so I put it on that bed and then I emptied out my rudaba bed it wasn’t doing great

I had a little bit of a fertilizer mishap learning how to use this new injection system that I’ve got so we got too much nitrogen so the roots didn’t get plump they got long so we just kind of axed it we’re going to be putting new rud Vegas in the garden

Somewhere probably in about a month is maybe month and a half somewhere like 45 days we should start getting some rud bigas back in the ground depending on the weather so this bed is totally empty it’s just got the doodo on it and it’s just going to rest and do its thing but

The broccoli bed is a different story broccoli bed’s got some plants left in it and they are starting ahead now I’m not really worried about them I don’t even plan to harvest these broccoli at all so what I decided to do was go ahead and put the what it’s

Called Hot Chicken crap on here so we put the hot manure on here and it’s just going to I want to see if it’s going to burn the plants that’s what I want to see I want to see how the plants react to it I don’t want to eat it because

It’s got dooo on it but that being said I want to just see how the garden reacts to it how these specific plants react to it burns it fine and if it doesn’t fine I won’t think I would ever just put fresh chicken crap on a bed and just eat

It but I want to see how long long it takes for that aging process to really kick in and make a difference now what we are going to do is even though I just laid it on top we’re going to come back in and we’re going to put a nice thin

Layer of either compost or soil or something on top of it when we top off our other beds and then that’ll put it underground but for right now I want the sun to hit it to age it to release it and the W wind and rain and all that

Stuff so we’ll see how that goes at this point it’s like a week old so it’s still Hot Chicken crap so this time of year it’s all about the greens so we’ve got these miniature Tom Thumb heads of lettuce here and we’ve just been chipping away at them piece by piece and

Um they’re perfect size now so they don’t really get very big so we’re just going to again just keep clearing out this bed over and over and in the spring I typically when I grow my Romain lettuce I do I don’t do cut and come again again

I just do a complete Harvest so I’ll grow the head cut it grow the head cut it but this time of year I don’t really have to do that so we’re doing the cut and come again and right before we put this bed to to sleep for probably about

A month before we do our uh potatoes I’ll come in and I’ll harvest the entire head of Romain but for right now especially cuz I’m trying to harvest enough to feed two families I mean these six plants this is one plant so it’ll give me enough to feed six different or

Two different families lucky for me he really likes Bach choice so since I planted so much we’re going to go ahead and give him a nice size Bach Choy I mean you can’t go wrong with that can you two things one a lot of people think

You need a whole lot of space and in order to get a lot of food and I do talk about this a fair amount I know a lot of you are new to the channel and I’m going to continue to talk about it because I feel like it’s very important so so far

I’ve harvested two miniature heads of lettuce and I’ve harvested off of two Roma plants and got two heads of Bach Choy and I want to show you how much food has produced out of this so let’s get this try not to mess up this prize

Bo choy and we’re going to do more don’t worry but this is what we’ve gotten out of it so far we’ve got almost half a basket and then if you throw that on top and then you throw this one on top I mean that’s crazy you just simply

Don’t need a lot of space when it comes to fall and Spring plantings like cool seasoned crops you just don’t need a lot of space to create a lot of food it’s crazy I mean I should but the way I plant kind of limits me but what I

Should do one winter is just grow out a two beds and just run it that way and see and the greenhouse and run it that way and see what we can get out of but I don’t plant that way so I kind of don’t really want to but you know if you take

Away from everything if you take everything that I harvest day and imagine putting it in one bed it’s going to be about one beds worth of space that I take up so it’s just it doesn’t take a lot of space to grow a lot of food now I did go ahead and eliminate

This um lettuce I started cutting around it and you can see how it’s gotten burned a little bit and just I think it’s a combination of the cold and the extreme wetness we’ve gotten so I just eliminated this but this is important because when you’re growing food and in

The cold like this and it stays wet you got to trim your plants and sometimes you just got to know when to hold them and when to fold fold them and so this one that’s been folded now I think it’s time to finish up our radishes from this

Pot go ahead and pull the rest cuz we’re about to go into the greenhouse and see what’s going I haven’t been in the greenhouse in like a week so we’ll see what’s going on in here but as of right now this Harvest from this one pot is

Complete we got about 40 radishes out of this pot and that was just one sewing I didn’t even do a succession sew or anything like that so you can see we’re in good shape and where would I be if I didn’t give you an update on my brussels

Sprouts oh boy we’re getting close think I’m going to give him another feeding and then we’re going to go from there but this plant’s days are officially numbered at this point I’m super excited so I never realized this about myself but apparently I’m the captain of perseverance I’ve been trying to grow

Brussel sprouts for 4 years now and um this this is the closest I’ve gotten so we’re just going to keep going at it but it’s looking good so far and at the rate the sun is getting higher in the sky we should start to see more and more growth

At this point the trick is just going to be keeping everything from being saturated all the time and that’s just going to have to be when the sun warms up and depending on how much rains we get and stuff like that that’s out of my

Control but we can do the best we can and we can create air flow in there if needed by trimming Greenhouse is nice and toasty in here it’s you can see we’ve got a lot of moisture so I do need to vent it and it’s not been warm

Enough for this to vent so I have two options can leave the door open which is good but it’s not going to get really warm today and I want it to get a little bit warmer in here so what I’m going to do instead is I’m going to open this

Louver vent I installed this year just to help get some more air flow in and move that stuff out of here so we want to move as much fresh air in and moisture out as we can and that’s really going to help because we don’t want to

Have mold issues or anything like that occurring in the greenhouse and with the heat coming in it’s going to cause things to grow faster which is what we want because we’re wanting to cycle out some of our plants now so we’re kind of working on

That as as bit by bit and as like I said in previous videos inside this unheated Greenhouse in winter time around January 15th is when things really start to turn around and start to really grow fast in here and we’re just we’re coming up on that really quick so

We’re going to open this and that will just let fresh air I can already feel the fresh air rushing in and then we’re going to empty out all of the bok choy here so this whole row I might leave the small ones that we replanted and but the big ones are going

To be gone and we’re going to create more space and more air flow in here and the one good thing about growing in the greenhouse because it doesn’t get rain stuff doesn’t get as where is the stem doesn’t get as dirty so I don’t have to spend as much time

Washing cuz washing is a whole another deal but you can see that’s a boach Choy nice and clean m m telling you guys what if you don’t have somewhere outside to wash your produce you’re really missing out this makes a huge difference I did a video while

Back and I’ll link it through now I’m not going to lie I didn’t think it through totally but um I kind of walked you through how I built it after the fact but it’s super easy anybody can do it and if you’ve never built anything just don’t be scared just build

It you know um this has cut down on the amount of mess in my house exponentially especially in the spring and fall you know the summer when you’re picking tomatoes and stuff noce that produce is pretty clean and we don’t really have to wash it but right

Now I makes all the difference in the world I mean you see how I have to dress this is my old attire from when I worked on ships and Commercial fish and stuff and I still wear but it really helps with this and I just like to dump all of my

Loose greens into the bin I’ll show you here in a second once I get these Bok toys clean I mean look at that an’t that pretty that’s just amazing here’s the deal the reason behind this whole video is to kind of show what a well executed plan can do um

You know we planted this stuff probably 3 months ago roughly and we knew it was going to be a slower grow season grow cycle but just knowing that and knowing how it’s going to turn up in the future as far as what’s going to be planted in the next month 2 months 3

Months this is executing just right we’re pulling out plenty of vegetables we’re giving them to people we I mean you know we could sell a few but I’m not really worried about that I’d rather give it to people that I know that really do enjoy it and you know want it

But this is the beginning of the end for a fall Garden but when you look at what’s going on out in the garden it’s just it’s just a continuous cycle and that’s the thing about gardening it is a cycle so my goal is to have it cycling

Out having the old produce coming out with the new produce coming in and harvesting some of the old stuff before so we eliminate that dirt period in which there’s not a lot coming in and I realize that some people in some areas cannot grow in the winter time or it’s

Very very difficult but you know what where there’s a will there’s a way you can figure it out for instance one of the listeners on the backyard gardens podcast all you people in zone three and four zone two and he was growing food all winter all winter he built a greenhouse he

Insulated it he had air flow and heat and all that stuff I mean he wanted it he made it happen and damn it he grew some food and that’s I mean that’s an eye opener so you know there is a way to do it it just depends on one how much

Time you have how much you want it and how much you’re willing to invest in it and the investment part doesn’t have to be crazy you just got to be creative and that’s the thing this is all about creativity I know it doesn’t seem like it is but you just come up with

Different ways to do it and you make it just like this table I’m working on I came up with this I just was like you know what I want a table I want a wash Bend I want a little potting station and I want a drying rack and that’s what I

Made boom you know so that being said today this whole area is full let me show you so you can see that all of this is full of produce and we had timed this out just right so make sure you get your timing right and then plan it out well

Is nothing better than a good old plan good thing it’s a new year because everybody’s all about making a plan and making a resolution so here you go make it happen Captain goodbye [Applause] hi