Gardening Made EASY! Tips from a Raised Bed Gardener (Garden Tour 5)

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[Music] what’s up you guys I’m Natasha this is shepherding Peppers farm and today we are doing another weekly Garden Tour so we are in May now things have really kicked off they’re going full steam ahead the garden is looking absolutely wonderful I need to do a good bit of harvesting today especially with lettuce and carrots and so we’re going to go around we’re going to look at what we have growing we’re going to harvest a lot of food and we’re just going to enjoy the beauty of the May Garden and I’m going to talk about some of my favorite things to grow and some little tips and tricks that help them to work out and all sorts of little details these garden tours can get a little longwinded because I’ll often start talking about the different varieties of plants that we’re growing what we use them for and what’s special about them and things of that nature walked into a spider we there’s a lot of arch chuses and we get a lot of spiders who make web so let’s go look at the Garden typically I like to bring you guys down to this edge of the garden right here to start the garden tours but I’m actually going to come all the way closest to the peral Garden to start right here in the front we have Tunas these are super bisma Triumph mix I believe I believe that’s how you say these are huge flowers that is easily the size of the palm of my hand what’s really great about these petunias is they are not only edible but they can be used as natural food coloring so I’m going to harvest these flower heads and take them inside and dehydrate them put them into glass jars to store and use as natural food coloring how pretty is that though with the green mixed in there and then I need Harvest some of these carrots that’s another reason I wanted to come down into this sput so we could Harvest some of these carrots check on the onions so these carrots right here these are really tall these are going to seed that’s what these flower heads are at the top so often times when I I am checking my carrots to see if they’re ready I will move some of the dirt at the base of the carrot and just feel the diameter and then another big tip that people like to use is the push the carrot down and then pull the carrot up method and it’s actually extraordinarily effective for getting your carrots out of the ground without breaking these Carrot Tops push down Pull up I’m going to jump right into this this morning I’m going to grab some gloves I’m going to grab my harvesting basket we’re going to harvest some of these carrots and then we’ll keep the store rolling [Music] right over on this side of the bed opposite from the carrots and the flowers that we have in here we do have some pero flowers that are planted in like purple cone flour and Super parad Doo EA we also have some Jupiter’s beard so lots of different things planted in here and after we pull these carrots probably able to see them a good bit better over in here we have a bunch of different onions that are planted in same thing with my onions certain varieties you’re going to have the bulk of the bulb underneath the dirt and with other varieties you’ll be able to see them really well and so that one has a few more weeks on it but we’re starting to get a solid diameter on these I’m actually getting really excited probably about that big right now so we’re getting close but we’re not quite there yet the bigger that they get though the more they’ll poke out and you’ll be able to to tell I wish I had labels for these but unfortunately all these onions are missing their labels this is cat n right here [Music] [Music] I’m really excited to come through and harvest all these onions in a few weeks right here we have bachelor’s buttons you can see my hands are filthy from digging in the dirt and more carrots in through here up in the front it’s kind of a big mess we have Pacific Beauty cingula [Music] [Music] [Music] followed by a few more carrots this is purple Emperor climbing Noam and we have some sweet peas in the back that are slowly working towards coming up this right here is Italian oregano smells fabulous every time I touch this all I can think about is pizza this is a perennial herb very easy to grow on the opposite side we have Greek oregano and this will really take off and start growing super well once it gets just a little bit more sunlight we have more of the Pacific Beauty pindula right here and it’s kind of crowding it a little bit with more of the sweet piece in the back over here these are purple dragon carrots these are some of my absolute favorite carrots to grow again these are trying to go to seed you can tell cuz they’re they’re starting to get really tall and Woody and they’re going to formulate seed heads which is great for saving seeds for next year but I am going to harvest what I can from here first that way because the truth is you really only need a handful of crops to go to seed to have enough to be sufficient for yourself and your family one carrot can produce a lot of seeds I’m talking like one carrot that flowers and ghosted seed can probably produce you about a thousand carrot seeds so you really don’t need many of them to go to flow and they’re very very easy to save seed from we’ll do a whole video on that in the future about how to save seeds from your carrots carrots are classified as a by anual meaning that they are not supposed to bloom in their first year I have one variety of carrot in this Garden that holds true to that rule the rest of my carrots have flowered within one season so I pretty much always expect that if they do not get harvested they’re going to go to flour which is both good and bad cuz then one you get seeds but two you don’t actually get the the carrot that you’re looking to harvest so so even if I have to harvest these while they’re small I’d rather get some carrot than no carrot [Music] all right over in through here we have tomatoes that are growing along this trellis this is actually a piece of fencing that we used whereas the flat panels that you’re seeing over on the other sides those are cattle panels that we use but we had extra fencing and we decided why not just throw it in the garden and use it as a flat panel so that’s what we did right here we have holy basil that was planted in recently and we have a bunch of Amish paste Tom Tomatoes they growing and looking really nice I think they’re Amish paste let’s double check Romas they’re Romas these are Romas and then right here this is Sweet Basil followed by lettuce leaf basil this stuff you can see it has much more curly Leaf to it we’re just going to keep going straight at this point through the Beds which is a bit unusual for me but that’s the way we’re going to take it today this is another roma tomato right here you can see at this point I do need to come through and attach these tomatoes to the trellis they’re kind of falling down which is I prefer them to be attached it’s easier for me if you start to attach them while they’re smaller rather than once they’ve kind of curved themselves into a funky shape this right here is spicy Globe basil this is a really neat comp packed little basil what you often find with different varieties of plants is that they grow slightly different so when you’re looking at basil and if you want a taller bushier basil something that’s going to really fluff out and take up a lot of space something like a sweet basil or geneves basil even purple opal basil can get decently tall those are great variety holy basil is another one that can get between 2 to 3et tall 2 to 3T wide it can really Bush out and take up a good bit of space whereas something like a spicy Globe basil is much more compact it only gets between a foot to 2 feet tall and it stays really nicely mounded so so they’re excellent for containers especially smaller containers plus it has a really distinctive spicy basil smell it’s really good we enjoy that one that’s it’s really good but then again I love just about all basil I’m not going to take issue with any of it they definitely do have distinct cooking purposes though I don’t love purple opal basil in my pesto as much as say a sweet basil or geneves basil in my pesto so fun fact now over here we have onions I may come through and harvest the onions that are growing in between the tomatoes at this point possibly even the ones in the back we’ll probably add that to our harvesting list just to to get it done because that’ll free up a good bit of space in here and I think it would be nice to have some fresh onions to cook with over the the following week that is grass that’s growing really tall so over here this I’m going to pick up and Transplant although I typically would not so at the end of this bed we have a nice little bushel of peppers but right here this is a Swartz and beer and Berry this grew all on its own because SZ and beer and berries we had them right here this last summer so SZ and beer and berries are Berry in the nightshade family you only want to eat the fruit when it is completely black it doesn’t taste something like a blueberry wasn’t really breed to be a super sweet Berry but it’s excellent in jams and pies it really shines that way um but it will drop seed all on its own it will you have all these berries that need to be harvested and you have to be kind of delicate with them and you harvest them because they smoosh really easily and they’re full of seeds so I don’t want this growing right in between all my Peppers because these plants can get absolutely massive 3 to four feet wide several feet tall and this will overcrowd all of my Peppers that I have over here so I’m actually going to pick up this I’m going to transplant it back towards this section where it can grow and become a huge monster and you’ll actually see there are a few more that are starting to come up all on their own right here and there they’re tiny but they’re starting to come through these are my favorite spicy peppers these are Sugar Rush Peach Peppers we have a little bushel of them I think there’s about seven plants right here and then if we work our way over here we have red hoan Aros you can tell by the bigger plants which ones were overwintered and which ones weren’t and up next we have sanos sanos are eaten on Pizza all throughout the summer in my house they fabulous followed by pablano Peppers these are all looking really really nice we have a few Fresno peppers in through here followed by our big gyms then we have our Megatron jalapenos followed by our Craigs Grande jalapenos and orange spice jalapenos I haven’t planted much in this corner right here because this is an ant hill and I need to come through and deal with that before I plant more on this side growing on the trellis right here we have pink Fang Tomatoes these are really starting to come in I’m so excited about the Tomato Harvest this year pink Fang tomatoes are actually a larger variety of Aroma and Amish paste they’re a sauce tomato and they’re quite big so I’m really excited about those I didn’t get a ton of them last year when we grew them for the first time and the kids didn’t love them fresh but they worked well in sauce they were pretty meaty so I believe in giving things multiple chances and growing them so I’m really excited to have them in the garden again and just see how they do now when you Garden in the same space for a long time often you get volunteers both in the garden beds and outside of the garden beds and in a moment we are going to come through and harvest all of this parsley right here that is growing not in my garden beds and then we also have some volunteer chamomile that is growing on the ground so apparently this particular spot right here is my little growing outside of the garden bed’s herbal garden it might be silly but I’m absolutely tickled by the fact that there is three different herbs growing over here in this one little corner I don’t know I think that’s really neat I’m very amused by this I love the garden [Music] [Music] this bed is a zoo that’s the only way I can describe it we have purple tmos that are growing and then this right here is cilantro that has gone to seed we are obviously letting it go to seed and we’re going to use it as a spice and F seeds for next season and then behind this massive amount of cilantro we do have tomatoes these are Amish paste tomatoes that are growing on this trellis they’ll be fine cuz the cilantro is going to bloom rather quickly and then we can take it out and it’ll free up a lot of sunlight and space so I’m not overly worried about the crowding at the moment the whole bed has tons of tatos in it and different melons you can see that the Tomos get quite tall so they have all this growing space underneath the plant tatos are one of the few varieties that I will stake up I need to stake this one right here to give it some more support and I’ll probably trim this Branch off right here so that way this can grow more upright Tomos can be pruned pruned the same way you can prune your cucumbers or your tomatoes so I am going to stake this and remove that Branch that’s kind of sprawling out that way my melons can grow underneath my tatos Telos although it would be great if they grew all through the summer here they don’t I have a pretty brief window where the Tomos will grow and I can Harvest their fruits before the bugs are going to get to them the caterpillars are going to find them and they’re going to eat them it makes me sad because I love Tomos but I’m also mentally prepared for like I’ll I’ll probably pout a little bit when I start losing my Tomos I’ll be bummed out but logically I know it’s going to happen that’s the way it works but I I garden organically so I’m going to harvest as much as I can off of the Tomos and all throughout that time the melons that I planted underneath these right here are top Mark cantelopes they’re going to continue to grow and sprawl out under the beds and once these particular Tomos start being eaten to smithin by worms I’m going to cut them off of the base and I’m going to compost them the chickens are going to get some free caterpillar snacks and some really good greens and I going to have an opening for all of these melons that have been growing underneath the shade of the tatos to really grow and take off that’s my version of companion planting I know most people think of companion planting like I need to plant a thousand marold with my tomatoes so that way I don’t get as many horn worms on my tomatoes I would not I don’t need that many marold and I struggle with the idea of planting a whole bunch of crops and a place where I could be growing something else in a way that’s more beneficial for me so over the years I’ve found these little systems that work for me in my garden and one of those is doing things like growing the Tomos which really shine at the beginning part of the year and growing the melons at the base because of the fact that we have a long growing season by the time the tomatos have to come out because of the bug damage the melons will be ready to take off it’ll be super hot and humid so it works really well it’s very complimentary whereas earlier I planted a whole bed with bush beans and potatoes because they’re supposed to be excellent companion plants and the potatoes exploded and totally are overtaking my bush beans so I probably won’t use that method again in the future but you live and you learn right so I have had some melon loss you can see right here they said Amish melon this does not have an Amish melon growing here obviously the bugs ate it and that’s okay I’m prepared for that that’s why there were four melons planted in this 4ft section they need a little bit more space than that so now that this has been ruined I know that these ones are going to be okay hopefully this one is an Amish melon I try to plant them similarly here and here and then here and here these are dragon egg melons that is not a scientific name it’s a hybrid melon that I’ve had growing in the garden I haven’t had a ton of cross pollination in my garden especially with things like brasas and squash and stuff like that the two things that I have found actually cross pollinate by happy accident and it’s only happened twice have been been with a melon and have been with a tomato and the tomato is a ox heart tomato which is a heart-shaped huge tomato that accidentally got crossed with a black beauty and it’s this black beauty colored Ox heart tomato it’s fabulous and then right here I had a canary melon that accidentally cross-pollinated with a um a Vine Peach and It produced this huge cluster of what I call dragon eggs cuz there’s a bunch of different melons all clustered together and they that’s just what they look like I don’t know that’s what went through my head at the time I think I had watched Harry Potter with the girls and I don’t that’s just what happened so that’s what I’ve been calling them hybrids take several years to stabilize so even though I saved seeds from what had been cross-pollinated in the previous season I might still not end up with exactly the same plant that I got in the previous year it takes several years for them to stabilize way so I’m just going to keep planting them and see how it looks and enjoy what happens because it’s my girl and I can do that oh more melons okay so right here we have Prescott fond Blanc melons which are amazing they look like little pumpkins I love them and then we have a few kajari melons that are over there in the back this is more of the cilantro you can see it’s almost looks like this big beautiful pile of filler right here really lovely and then we have some borage over in the back back that’s growing these are cucamelons and then we have German chamomile that is growing nice little blanket down here on the opposite side there is a little teeny tiny Roman chamomile which is a perennial chamomile followed by more cucum melons that aren’t quite tall enough to reach the top of the trellis I’m going to harvest a good bit of this parsley because I’d like to free up some space for this [Music] [Music] now if we keep going there’s a lot of carrots in this bed that we need to harvest this is a really cool perennial flower this is called the Zulu Warrior it looks a lot like a purple Dalia I’ll put an image in here for you this is an African native and it’s just really neat I’m really excited to see these grow and Bloom then we have some spider wart all tucked in down at the base over here lots of carrots that we’re going to come through and harvest which will be fun right here we have two really beautiful heads of Little Gym lettuce that we’re going to harvest and take in the house [Music] this is a russle Lupine we have some blanket flower that’s opening up in through here and these are orange fudge rud beas love these These are super pretty harvesting these and taking them inside and putting them on the counter then we have double peie poppies all through in here I really hope these Bloom I’m just hoping and wishing and praying that they will actually Bloom poppies actually like colder weather it is not so cold here anymore it is the beginning of May I guess it’s more like the middle of the may now and we are reaching the 80s at this point during the day with humidity it’s it’s warm I’m really hoping that they bloom because lemon poppy seed muffins are my absolute favorite and I just feel like it would be so neat to have poppies that we saved from the garden to be able to cook with in that way I would I haven’t done that before so I’m really excited about the possibility so Cress your fingers with me guys over in the front that’s R weed I can go away these are stocks this is an anytime stock mix flow from Baker Creek these are just beautiful I really love the stock flowers those are excellent these are an annual though over here we have some gloriosa daisies that have not fully come in yet oh I guess I spoke too soon there’s one right there it’s really pretty this is cingula Pacific Beauty cingula we’re going to harvest all of these flowers and I take them inside put them in the dehydrator to hydrate them and then soak them in oil and I like to use olive oil when I’m soaking my flowers that I’m using for medicinal purposes and I will use that after that oil has been infused into making balms and lotions for the skins or or soap no okay do you see this bug that’s a cucumber Beetle cucumber beetles do not just eat cucumbers cucumber beetles eat your flour petals they eat your beans they will eat anything that they can get their little buggy mouths on they’re just awful little puss so if you see those those are not a friend that is is not a yellow cousin of the ladybug that is a cucumber Beetle and it is there to ruin your happiness so we get rid of those back to the cingula I like to use these in soap making and making lotions and bombs for the skin because cingula is known to be very beneficial for skin conditions so that is a really great purpose for these plus the more that you cut the heads off of these the more flowers you get in return it’s kind of a nice cycle [Music] lots of rud beas in through here as well as pretty sure these are Seaside daisies and then we have different Yaro that’s been planted in really excited to harvest all of these carrots and see how those are doing this is the opposite side of the ttio trellis this is Swiss chard right here that is going to seed I’m going to come through and I’m actually going to Lop this off at the B what is that okay right here this is a green stink bug they will ruin your plants as well we’re going to Lop this off at the base right down here and then I’m probably going to put this into the perennial garden but if you continue to Lop these off your Swiss chard will give you another season of producing for you you just have to not let it go to flower so these are the Rio Grande Verde toos the traditional Big Green version that you guys guys are probably familiar with that’s what these are growing in through here now over in this bed we have a lot of squash that is growing so this is gray zucchini you can see there’s a little zucchini growing right there and there’s another one over there this is round zucchini oh another cucumber Beetle lovely you can see those little round zucchinis how cool are those and then there’s another little head Little Gym lettuce tucked in here we’re going to harvest that I am going to pull the lettuce that’s bolting you can see it right there and I’m going to throw that over to my sheep and my goats they will appreciate that and it’ll get it out of the garden which will be great there’s a little bit of black beauty zucchini in through here see this is bolted we have our cocozelle which is striped zucchini look at that how cool is that with the cocozelle I think that’s so neat this is definitely trying to bolt over here so that has to come out then we have yellow summer squash in through here it already has its nice yellow tint to it little gy lettuce that is bolted needs to come out for sure then we have lots of our passion flour growing over here where I would prefer that it not be growing so this is going to actually be removed I will let the passion flow have this trellis and part of that trellis but I it’s not going to get anywhere growing over here so we’re going to remove that these are my black beauty Tomatoes I’ve talked to you guys about this I love these tomatoes so very much they’re wonderful and then we have holy basil growing at the bottom this is probably my favorite small ever over the past many years of my gardening I have primarily grown purple opal basil genev basil Sweet Basil lettuce leaf basil spicy little basil those have kind of been my five go-to Basils it’s what I started out with they were just wonderful and so I just kind of kept with that well this year I got this variety pack of basil and it had a few different varieties that I had never tried before a Mrs Burns lime basil lemon basil and holy basil oh my goodness you guys if you have not grown holy basil I love the way this smells out of all the air fresheners now I don’t but I’m not a big fan of air fresheners but out of all the air fresheners that there are why is there no holy basil handle or perfume or spray oh my gosh it is so good please please please please please grow holy basil and smell it and then tell me what you think I love it so much it smells so good wow I just love it I can’t help but wonder the neighbors think when they see me out here just smelling plants in the garden that aren’t flowers I think it’s normal if you you see somebody stopping to smell Rose but when you just see some random girl out out in the garden huffing basil what does that make people think of exactly past the amazing holy basil we have some toothache plant down here toothache plant is fantastic use these as natural cough drops in my house and then we have pink Ox hearts these need some attention attaching to the trellis that are growing right there on the opposite side we have have more pink Ox hearts these are carrot flowers that are in full bloom how pretty are those I love these These are really beautiful and then we have our lemon basil that are you going to seed already stop we’re not doing that I don’t think so apparently my lemon basil thinks that it’s time to go to flour so we’re going to pinch these back basically just sniffing off and that should reset it just ever so slightly to stop trying to go to flower oh look at that hello beautiful this is a pink Ox heart tomato growing that’s exciting okay so the reason that I’m not letting that basil go to flour just yet is once things start to go to flour their taste changes the plant is no longer this delicious soft buttery basil it gets kind of hard it gets kind of of bitter almost it’s just it just doesn’t taste as good it’s not the basil that you’re used to tasting so typically when your basil starts to flow you can snip it and then it will help it to reset but it will go back to trying to flower rather quickly I have never seen basil go to flower that quickly ever and that’s a new variety for me so we’re going to keep an eye on that and see if that was just a random fluke or what the deal was with that over here we have our lime basil which does in fact smell like Fruity Pebbles which I find to be one of the coolest things ever I think that’s so neat and then we have some berries crazy cherry tomatoes here and do we have anything else Amish paste we have so this is kind of that mixed variety trellis that we have growing right here over here we have lots of cucumber flowers super exciting these are double yield cucumbers so I’m thrilled to see that we are starting to get flowers on those over here we have Feverfew many many many onions and Ashley cucumbers these ones are not quite big enough to make it up to the arch but sooner rather than later hopefully they’ll join in these are all onions and lettuce that are bolting again I want to check on these and just see how they’re doing but I’m okay with giving these a little bit more time to grow if they need it that looks really good doesn’t it about three inches in diameter it’s pretty good um this is Marlo lettuce that has bolted and gone to seed it’s going to be bitter so we’re not going to eat that there’s Island lettuce woled gond to seed the goats have really been enjoying this as a as a snack so they’ll appreciate that now typically what people do with their onions is they wait until these greens right here start to dve back and flop over the sun just came out and it’s blinding we’re going to move that flopping over is the signal to the grower that the onions aren’t going to be putting much effort into making a big bulb anymore so typically at that point people will harvest their onions and typically at that point people will harvest their onions and call it a day so we’re starting to see the yellowing there’s a tiny bit of wilting and my impatience has started I’m ready I want to harvest onions but the best bet unless I need the space the best bet is to leave it until they’re fully ready logic and self-control are not on my [Music] side over here we have our blow held beans getting nice and Tall thrilled about that these are are ranunculus flowers these are a pink variety of ranunculas and then we have more of the patunas at the bottom I love the renila flowers they’ve been great in the house as the first flower that I’ve had on the counter in counter bouquet these have just been wonderful then there’s some volunteer zenas up in the front these are our orange accordion tomatoes growing getting taller by the minute looking really really awesome this right here is genev basil this is your traditional basil that you would grow or making pesto or things like that we have our blue creams that are growing look how tall this one’s getting looks really good a whole section of our Swiss giant pansies celery that has gone to seed this is what celery looks like when it is going to flower and trying to produce seeds how cool is that and then I think we’re just going to keep going down we’re just going to keep making our way forward this bed needs a lot of things planted into it I’m probably going to take out the broccoli at a minimum move it and then we’re going to plant a whole bunch of peppers in here you can see my my drill is already over here cuz I was working in here yesterday over in the front right here we have dark green serpent melons these are typically sold and grown as a cucumber they definitely look like a melon though botanically speaking you can tell cuz they sprawl I think they’re just about ready to be attached to the trellis that’s exciting this is the pumpkin bed I have a whole slew of pumpkins and squash growing in the perennial garden but that’s a different garden tour for a different time probably later next week so right here we have okay these are going to get all intermingled just so you know I can list the varieties off to you but these are going to get very intermingled we we have a coma squash and a red curry squash over on that side I have already seen squash bugs on these all right if you didn’t know these spikes on squash these can cause some people to get really really itchy typically typically I won’t handle my squash very much without gloves cuz I’m one of those people I have a reaction to squash and it’s it’s rather uncomfortable ooh on the bottom of the leaves of my squash these right here are eggs now what variety of eggs they are exactly I’m they’re not Vine B egg Vine Bo eggs are dark red I’ll Google it and I’ll put in what these are over here but nine times out of 10 these are not good for your garden so if you see insect eggs like that in your garden it’s best to remove the Lea and and get rid of it CU it’s not going to do anything good for you it’s going to be really fun seeing how the squash grow in the in ground beds versus the raised beds this year I’m excited about that on the front of this trellis we have Blue Lake pole beans they’re getting really tall they look really really good on the back side we have PA rups and tomatoes you’ll see those in a second but these beans look awesome let me just walk through spider web look how tall those are getting that’s fantastic so we have a mix of Jarel and Cinderella pumpkins over here these are going to take over the bed I’m prepared for it I’m okay with it they’re also going to sprawl out and down and onto the ground and grow I’m very good with that too I am so excited for these pumpkins to come in so on the back oh that’s right there okay do you see this I have to get rid of that no way no no no no no no no no I missed that is a vine Bo moth that was a Vine B moth and they do exactly what it sounds like they lay eggs that bore their way into the stems of your plant and it destroys your squash from the inside out she got away from me [Music] every year I end up going to war with the vine War moths not cool all right so over here these are Paul ropes and tomatoes Let’s see we already have fruit these have definitely been one of the first varieties of tomatoes two fruit for us this is scallop squash this is what the vine B moth was hanging out on you can see where I attacked the leaf and Desperation trying to get rid of her failed this is golden yellow summer squash right there I’m going to need to come through and bury some more of these stems that’s my that’s going to be my attempt this year is to bury the stems as much as possible all right this trellis has golden sweet peas on it on this side and then they are over there as well this is garlic all in through here there are lots of sweet potatoes that are planted at the base of the garlic because once the garlic comes out the sweet potatoes are going to take off because sweet potatoes like a good bit of heat so again it’s one of those complimentary systems where the Garlic’s going to be coming out and the sweet potatoes are going to be taking off and it’ll work really well typically you’re going to wait for your garlic greens to turn yellow and produce a garlic scape which is a garlic flour pod and cut that off redirects the energy to the garlic greens and then few weeks after that you’re typically able to harvest your sweet potatoes I keep looking for garlic Scapes when I’m not seeing them so we’re just going to have to wait these are snow peas green Beauty snow peas right through here we’re going to harvest these as well and then at the base over here I don’t know what variety those are from that side so we’re going to check this side these are oh bait Alpha cucumbers I tried to mirror them so this side has bait Alpha cucumbers and this side has bait Alpha cucumbers over here we have arter chokes green Globe arter chokes and then purple top arter chokes that are growing in through here and a variety of different melons this is a banana melon Bine peaches they all look really lovely and then Prescott Fon Blanc melons some cruncha melons and a Santa Claus melon colletive farm woman melons all in through here again it’s the same system pretty much except Arch chokes are perennial these are going to grow and they’re going to get taller and the melons are going to grow at the base and it’s going to work pretty well I think over here we have more chander and this is Asian cabbage I need to harvest these seed pods cuz these are done these are ready to be harvested you can hear it right here we have Scarlet Sage that is blooming and showing off and looking really lovely this makes a great tea love Scarlet Sage for that purpose and then right here here we have some sler slope whole beans see our gold metal Tomatoes first though look exciting is that these are Brad Atomic grape tomatoes right here and then we have gold medal Tomatoes I told you guys last week I needed to get this out and I didn’t do it so I really do need to do that this week before it gets too intermingled with my tomatoes these are German pink Tomatoes trying to remember without the label they all look so beautiful I’m so excited now if we come around the doas have really started to take off these are the Dandy improved doas right here this is another Black Jack doya I do dig up some of my tubers we started a lot of doas from seeds specifically The Dandy improved and the unwind mixes of doas I think I might actually get a few more doia seeds because I still have a really decent amount of time in my growing season I’d like to possibly try to grow some other varieties of dollas um from seed I really enjoyed that but I also have dollia tubers for a few different varieties Blackjack dollia Heaven flood light dollia um I have a list written down somewhere and every so often I will dig up the doya tubers and I will divide them that way I can propagate them and have even more doas in the future I don’t do it every year and I typically do do it to specific varieties that I’ve really enjoyed because doia is where we’re at our are perineal I can leave them in the ground if I mulch them we’re in zone 8B so I don’t have to dig my Talia tubers up and store them when I go to propagate them by dividing the tubers I will dig them up and store them over the winter it’s just the way I like to do it I don’t dig them up propagate them and then put them back in the ground because I I like to sprout my doas most of the time before I put them in the dirt so my plan this year is to label these as the season goes on so I’m not running a muck at the end trying to label things like oh this is what this was so once they fully Bloom and open I’m going to put little markers next to them just confirming what they are but those are Black Jack doas and those were propagated all these different varieties of doas in through here getting ready to bloom these doas will be great as a border DOA The Dandy improved and the unwinds mix that’s pretty because they only get about 2 to 3et tall so these will end up making a really great peral Garden border flower I will put these in the peral garden in the future so over here these are doas see here’s one that’s finally coming up this is the big wow right here and then what is that Autumn Sunburst so there are some doas that are sprouting now I just I’m impatient I need proof all right and then down this chalis we have more of our Blue Lake po beans you can see them all throughout there oh okay I like to shoot the garden tour and then come back and harvest and do the work afterwards just cuz I make a filthy mess of myself but I wanted to show you really quickly two things I was going to end the garden tour after the dollas then I noticed these two things I thought they were really exciting so I’m going to show you this is the last bed in the row and we are starting to have our peanuts come up I’m so excited I love growing peanuts they grow so well here you can see all of these are starting to sprout this whole bed has peanuts all the way through besides the tomatoes so I’m really excited to see those starches spr and come up but then down here I wanted to talk to you about this this is a potato flow that will in fact produce a fruit I talked about this in last week’s Garden Tour about the fact that certain Nightshade varieties are edible if you eat them in a specific way so potatoes are Ed only by their Roots if they flower and produce a fruit do not eat that that is toxic and I think it’s hilarious that we talked about it and then the garden was like here let me give you an example of what you just talked about because potatoes do not typically flour it is an atypical thing for you to see a potato actually go to flour they’ve been bred over the years to not do that so that is super cool I mean it’s toxic but it’s super cool to look at all right and on that note I am going to go through and do the work partion partion portion of this Garden Tour and I will as I do the work in the specific beds I’ll kind of put it to the area that I was talking about and I will see you guys in the next video bye