May Vegetable Gardening in Canada Live

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today Saturday May I think it’s the 18th my watch is really funny I don’t know if you can tell it’s always a day ahead but it skips the day at a really weird point in the day so I never really know if I’m on the right day or if I’m one day ahead or one day behind but anyways we are doing a backyard garden tour this morning for garden tour Saturday and it is freezing up outside we had summerlike temperatures for at least a couple of weeks and suddenly the temperatures dropped I came outside wearing a thin long sleeve shirt and I froze my bottom very quickly so I went in and put on a sweater I actually put away my winter clothing and took it back out because I am freezing I’ve had two cups of tea today and I am still freezing I thought about having another cup of tea anyways let’s see what the backyard vegetable garden is looking like in early may it is 10:00 in the morning and let’s check it out you’re seeing my apple tree right in front of you before we flip around this is my backyard vegetable garden and and if you’re new here I am in Canada on Vancouver Island and before we get too much into the vegetable garden I just want to say I participate in Grandma s’s Garden Tour Saturday collaboration every Saturday before I forget and she’s the host of garden tour Saturday and the other hosts are St hope Susie in New York on Long Island and fish Pia and cube in Southern United States and Barb Deli R life in Washington state so let’s get back to the Garden a lot I have done some changes to the garden and it’s probably grown a fair bit since you guys have last seen it you might remember I had a kale jungle here well let me tell you it was a difficult decision but I decided to what’s the word mow down without a lawnmower my kale I still have a lot of kale and you see I have all this kale blooming and this whole huge area where you see dirt was all kale there’s more kale over here and although I’ve been eating a ton of kale as well as my other lettuce and greens and onions and flowers and all kinds of things I have have lots of plants to plant for the summer and I was running out of space so unfortunately good morning G Diaz 2485 greetings I decided to mow down the kale and this is where it ended up as much as I love flowers and kale plants and I eat them all the time I had too much that was my lesson learned from the season I planted a kale forest and it was too much for one person and no I didn’t give it away this time because I’ve learned kale is not a popular plant not compared to my apples I give away my peaches those kinds of things people go crazy for free food but kale is not one of those plants so I will appreciate my kale and not push it on other people so back to the garden now we have free space in here and you guys didn’t even know I had pee plants growing in here because it was such a jungle but these are pea plants I planted really early do I have a lot of butterflies I have some butterflies I wouldn’t say a lot but they do come and go here and there there’s blue ones white ones and red ones that we typically get we don’t get orange very often but blue red and white are common here and these are my little baby pea plants I do have bigger ones but these ones were overcrowded in the kale and now they have room to grow and they can see the light once again they’re growing on these little trellises but my bigger PE pea plants let’s take a look at those I’ve got them in different places there’s one here growing very diagonally and it’s mixed in with a Coline that seems to have planted itself and some more pea plants at the back and there is one little lavender pea flower so exciting and let’s check out some more pea plants in the garden hello Ian Ranny I’m probably saying your name wrong but good morning good afternoon evening wherever you are and I just spotted a plant casualty let’s show you I did a lot of planting and I am wondering what happened here this was a squash planet and I have a feeling a bird or something got into it because check this out it’s broken somebody totally broke this out and uprooted it now I don’t have a dog anymore I had a golden retriever for 10 years and he passed away almost 4 months ago there are no dogs to blame for this there have been a lot of birds in my garden I’m not saying a bird did this this but I do think there’s a high chance the crows have been going banana in my garden I don’t know why and I don’t know if they did this but someone did and it definitely wasn’t me so there is a culprit out here do I sell the things you grow I have never sold any of my garden produce I give it away if you watch some of my older videos Last Summer I probably harvested about 500 apples from I’ll show you the trees this tree here this is a five variety apple tree and it’s Gone Bananas once again there are so many apples on here see a better picture of the apples they are Here There and Everywhere between the foliage but my own estimations is actually I’m going to have more apples this year than last year and I had about 500 but check this out this tree is another apple tree I have two of them this is tall and short and there are so many apples here this is bananas like look at this one here here and up here and more over here this tree had thousands of flowers and I hate to say this I think most of them were pollinated I’m going to say like 98% probably got pollinated which is good and bad I will be thinning this apple tree out there is no question about that I did it last season and I need to go even heavier all of this you see is going to be an apple this is absolutely bananas I cannot believe how many apples are on this tree they are just everywhere like this is absolutely nutty how many apples are growing here and I know that mother nature will naturally thin out fruit trees on Vancouver Island in June we get a lot of wind and a lot of the fruit will fall off but usually it’s not enough I usually I usually still have to go through my garden and thin it out some more because otherwise the apples will be too small I’m going to guess we’re going to harvest like 7 to 700 to 1,000 this year which is absolutely bananas cannot believe it but let’s get back to the veggie garden here so we have a culprit who has clearly killed build a squash plant I have a lot of squash and hopefully they didn’t hit them all because I planted a whole bunch of my squash from milk jugs and I really what was my dog’s name that passed his name was zipper he had a lot of nicknames his real name was zipper he was called zipperman he was my garden supervisor um little man I had lots of nicknames for him but his real name was zipper because he used to pull on people zippers as a puppy and he outgrew the behavior but that’s how he got his name as zipper man so check out my tomato plants these were started in my indoor food garden and I got a lot of comments and in real life and on YouTube about planting tomatoes in April outside on Vancouver Island I evicted my tomato plants very early because I needed space and I didn’t want them in my house anymore they were too big and taking up too much space and a lot of them died I put about 10 to 15 outside and I only got about five or six that survived but I don’t care I have more growing in milk jugs and the ones that survived are doing well so no complaints there’s one here I finally put the cages around them getting ready there’s a tiny one here now this one I actually did grow this in a milk jug whoa whoa whoo here and it’s small well out here I only planted it less than a week ago oopsy daisies and it is thriving outside oh the camera doesn’t want to focus now we’re playing that game again um so I I don’t think it’s going to have any trouble out here it is now after the May long weekend which is typical in the Pacific Northwest most of the time we plant tomatoes and hot weather crops after the May long weekend or I think it’s this weekend I’m I’m a little ahead of myself I think it’s this weekend we have I think it’s called Mayday here that might be a Canadian thing and it’s a holiday it’s a statutory holiday and we often plant our hot weather crops after the MayDay weekend so I’m just like a little bit ahead but I did start a month ahead and yeah my plants that survived are doing well I have some merry Golds thrown in that were grown in the house they are blooming this tomato plant has a flower I had no idea but I might pick it off actually check it out it is starting to flour it seems a bit early but it’s actually pretty healthy so I’m not sure if I should pluck it or keep it I mean May is early for a flow on a tomato plant and it could grow a lot more before it flowers so it might be the right thing to do to pluck it off but overall it’s pretty healthy but I haven’t showed you my healthiest one yet we have two more tomato plants to check out this isn’t the healthiest one but I thought I would check it out anyways or maybe three more I can’t remember it’s got a weird lean to it but it is growing okay kind of a strange character on this plant and back to here we’re going to shimmy over to some more tomato plants we’ve got all kinds of unique things happening in this Garden here’s another plant this isn’t healthiest one but this one is growing well so much new growth and it’s very bushy this one I’m not sure why it’s so bushy these are supposed to all be the same variety so we’ll see about that and here is my healthiest tomato plant it is on fire with growth out here so much new growth in the last week or two it is just just putting out growth like nobody’s business and check out the Cabbage this was my first time ever growing cabbage like balls of cabbage in the garden even though I’ve gardened for 10 years I never tried growing cabbage before and look at it it is growing bananas crazy town right here so exciting and my peas these peas are on fire with growth finally it’s so late for them this is a variegated pee so beautiful and look at the flower it is fuchsia colored I’ve never seen a pea flow like this so cool what is my favorite vegetable to eat that is a very good question I like so many but if we’re going with vegetables that I eat the most often I’m going to go with something very boring and say lettuce I eat a ton of lettuce I eat kale a fair of kale but in terms of like favorites I love cucumbers but only homegrown I’m going to tell you should I tell you I may or may not tell you a story about cucumbers that I ate that may have ended me in the hospital I’m not sure if that’s why I ended up in the hospital but it might have been the culprit of uh ending up there what’s my favorite vegetable so overall I would say lettuce but I love a lot of vegetables I’m when can consider myself a vegetable person but I do like vegetables so what else do we have we have so much going on in my plant with me video we planted 160 onion bulbs and I had already planted onions previously so check out the abundance of onions coming up now they’re absolutely everywhere I also interplanted them with my potatoes like check this out this is the Potato Patch like it is going B let’s give you a size comparison can you see oh you can’t really see how tall it is but it’s pretty tall like my knees are here I’m going to say it’s about 2 and 1/2 ft tall the plants already like they are just on fire with growth and I actually planted onions right in the midst of the potatoes like I’m trying to show you through the foliage here there are lots of onions planted amongst the potatoes here now that is a fullon garden experiment I have never interplanted onions and potatoes they’re both root crops so how this will go is anybody’s best guess but hopefully they’ll both do well and they seem to be doing well and something I’m trying out more so this season and than other seasons is kind of a square foot gardening approach to the Garden where I plant a whole bunch of different species really close together on purpose and there are multiple reasons for that one is water retention and mulching I feel like if one plant say the potato plant Shades the onion plant a little bit underneath that the water retention will be better and the weed suppression will be better I don’t know if that’s going to work out but I’m trying it all over the garden with squashes and all kinds of things so checking out over here whoa this camera um these are more onions and garlics I also 70 cloves of garlic in this garden and check out thisy it is so beautiful it is purple my favorite color I’m actually going to do for for anyone who’s been around my channel for a little while I love doing an edible flowers taste test I have lots of edible flowers in the garden and while I was thinking of doing one today I think I’m going to hold off because I have several flowers now that I’ve never eaten that are just starting to bloom so if you come back to this channel probably in a few days maybe a week there will be another edible flowers taste test and this will probably be one of the specimens that I do a taste test on I’m so excited to try it many vegetable flowers are edible there’s other ornamental flowers that are edible but vegetable flowers in particular from all of my research most of them are edible which is super exciting and let’s turn around this way there are more cabbages here at the back we have a squash plant that has not been eaten by anyone that is very nice another cabbage [Music] lots of kosia flowers by my Chicago hardy fig tree it just has a couple figs on it this tree is about four years old and where are the figs they seem to have disappeared now can’t even see them maybe they’re hiding in the foliage but there were two on here there’s one and I’m not sure where the other one has gone but it’s here somewhere and I have to show you my Coline flowers check this out looming right beside the Fig Tree these were transplanted last season and I did some research on Coline flowers and I was quite interested to know if they are actually edible now when I research flowers to find out if they are edible so I can taste test them I look at multiple sources of information I do not trust a single Source because you you know you’re experimenting with your health essentially and what I learned about colines and the reason I will never taste test them is because multiple sources give me different information some of them are saying they are and some of them saying they’re very toxic so I will not taste test the colines but it is interesting to see that different sources actually find them edible versus inedible we’ve got some kosmas growing with garlic here lots of garlic I’ve got lots of sunflower volunteers this season from my sunflowers I didn’t plant them but they’re everywhere my baby little Merry Golds are blooming and there are squashes Here There and Everywhere and it looks like most of them haven’t been eaten these were all grown in in milk jugs as well as my corn plants these are all corns sweet corn that I sort of planted between the onions and the potatoes and if we come into the garden you can see my kale Forest is blooming I have mint and raspberries in the middle of my garden this is all either spearmint or peppermint very strong and flavorful and minty and these are raspberries and they are putting on lots of growth you can see chives right behind them blooming and down here these are my turn-ups they are growing really close together and I need to do some more research on turnips this is my first time ever growing them and I’m not actually sure if they’re supposed to be thinned or the proper technique for growing them I haven’t researched it if anybody knows anything about growing tups leave me your tips below whether it is thinning them not thinning them when Harvest them I’m interested to learn more about turn-ups because I have never actually grown them my garden is huge I guess a matter of perspective it is on the larger side but it’s not huge in my opinion it actually feels a little small but it’s all perspective it could be huge to some people and small to others so yeah these are my radishes and lots of kale in this Forest here and carrots I have to show these for Miss Grandma Sandy my carrots from last season which I should probably pull out soon but I had a surprise planned for Grandma Sandy actually if she shows up I have to research it first but I was curious to know if carrot flowers were edible and if they are I’m doing a taste test just for her she is obsessed with carrot Flowers in her garden so I got to research it first but most likely I’m guessing they’re edible and I will probably do a taste test later in the season let’s check out my greens some of my lettuces here we have my beautiful looking Lett uses I have been eating off of these and when I cut them I don’t take the whole head I just take selected leaves I take some scissors out and I just Harvest individual leaves and then the lettuce grows back kind of a nice thing we’ve got going on we have some giant mustard greens looking beautiful there’s lots of them here look at the color it is so so pretty on these giant mustard [Music] greens the bigger one is really easy to see and my honey berries are putting on lots of growth don’t know if the flowers got pollinated I can’t tell if there’s actually oh there are berries on the honeyberry bushes I wonder if they’re ripe can you guys see this check it out these are are my H cap or honey berries and there are a couple of them in there they’re looking either ripe or almost ripe I’ll show you the tag for these berries this is what they are how many honey berries you need a male and a female I have at least three bushes in this garden and let’s do a taste test I don’t know that they’re right yet but hold on this is what they look like this is a honey berry if you’ve never seen it different than a blueberry these grow long instead of round and we’re going to do a little taste test not sure if this is fully ripe I have eaten them one or two seasons before but let’s take a [Music] taste it is Juicy and soft but I do feel like it could ripen some more but that being said I’m going to go ahead and eat all the blue ones or some of them because I have a lot of birds this season more than I’ve ever had in this garden and I am worried the birds might eat them I haven’t seen them trying to eat them but you never know so we’re going to eat a few more and now that I check it out there are more on here although these ones are tiny so I don’t know maybe I’ll pick this bigger one here see if that one tastes any different it’s slightly tart I remember them being sweeter in previous Seasons but they’re still good could be slightly in need of a tiny bit more ripening but not bad one more just for fun let’s have another little snack yeah maybe that is the ripeness that they are I don’t really remember I only had them a couple times in previous Seasons but overall very good good blueberry alternative let’s turn around again that’s another honey berry bush there and another one over over here oh there’s more over here so I will have more to harvest if the birds don’t eat them I just filled my water water bottle well and let’s check out some more stuff going on we have strawberries in here and it looks like these guys probably got pollinated and there are more onions growing in here I’ve been cutting off these ones the greens and eating them in my salads very delicious and this is my ultimate favorite lettuce right here so beautiful and colorful it looks like a painter painted it so pretty and we have tribe I have finally started eating my tribe monster plants there are so many of them here and we have lettuce more cabbage more garlic and I almost forgot to show you one of my favorite plants right now we’ve looked at the Tomato but I miss showing you one of its companion plants check this out we have a variegated nerum absolutely gorgeous I am so excited last year I really wanted to plant nerum but I made that decision too late in the season and every local store was sold out of nerum seeds every box store was sold out and I didn’t feel like ordering them online again so when I came to December and I made my seed orders I went crazy with mersum seeds and I’m going to have so many this season so exciting and now we’re going to take a little walk and check out my little Memorial Garden that I made for my dog who passed away check this out I am shocked by this these are beans and I didn’t water this container for a very very long time I just sort of forgot it and neglected it and even forgot I planted in it and there are fresh bean sprouts so that is super exciting sunflowers seated themselves in this grow bag some lettuce in a container here and it looks like there’s a bird I think it’s in this tree joining in on the tour oh right at the top he’s chirping chirp chirp chirp there you are little birdie Singing in the Rain what a glorious feeling to be singing in the rain it just started raining and in previous years I used to really dislike the rain living in the Pacific Northwest my whole life it can be depressing at the times when you have so much rain but I love the rain now because with all the wild flow wild fires and droughts we’ve had in the last few years it is so needed and the garden is so dry and the plants check out my cherry tree it’s been raining on and off since yesterday and the growth this tree has put out I feel like in the last I’m not even going to say 24 hours but it has like exploded with growth all this fresh green is so beautiful and it is loaded with cherries it has never had this many cherries on it before it’s like everywhere there are cherries on this tree I mean there is a chance the birds will eat many of them but there are everywhere so hopefully there are lots of cherries but that’s never a guarantee and this is my little Memorial Garden for Mr supervisor who passed this was a stepping Stone from the neighbor and his old ball and these are cabbages planted I planted a bunch of plants that he would have loved if he was alive he used to eat my strawberries Maul my kale and broccoli plants he would eat beef steak tomatoes and cherry tomatoes he loved the vegetable garden and the kale so this is was for him in his memory there are strawberry plants they are flowering some of them where are we flowers are here kale is starting to go to flower the ferns he loved ferns on his strolls and some palm trees and I call it the circle of life Garden because of all the circular rocks here and because his Ashes about 40% of his ashes are in this little garden so that is why I call it the circle of life Garden right here and I do have another Garden surprise but we’re going to save that for a future whether it’s a live stream or an edited video I’m not sure it’s one of my big Garden surprises that I’ve been keeping but for now as much as I love the rain I’m going to warm up in the house have another cup of tea maybe and that’s all for today’s Garden Tour thank you for joining me wherever you are in the world and I hope you have a lovely day evening or night bye-bye