Garden Update Trellis and Future Plans

How is our garden doing?

Music: High Life by The Mini Vandals

[Music] [Music] we decided that the panels were a little too uh floppy so we’re going to put in Middle posts to keep them a little bit firmer we bought enough of those 16t kettle panels to get a really good bulk price [Music] [Music] we opted to zip tie to cut down middle pieces to the other cattle panels [Music] [Music] y [Music] [Music] you wanted to point point out that Wendy hurt her foot when a bunch of toost fell on them so if it looked like she was struggling that’s what that was all about five trellis rows put up two more to go it’s getting pretty late so we’re going to call it a day beautiful time of day to look at the Garden so it’s been a couple of weeks since we put the trellises up Y and pl are definitely growing those are beans that I planted from seed they’re doing really pretty well these are green beans um I like to grow those as Bush so that’s why they’re down there and not on a trellis we’ve got a whole bunch of cherry tomatoes in here mostly cherry tomatoes the cherry tomatoes seem to be doing the best at this point I’ve been able to start getting them trellised up and you can see some flowers on some of them some cabbages and some other coal crops in here and then I’ve in between them put okras some of the okras didn’t come up very well and then as I was thinning the other ones I just stuck some of them in the other holes so some of the ochra that looks like it’s wilting and dying that’s because I did that so I think I’m going to have to maybe put some Zenia seeds or something like that in some of these holes and that’s kind of my plan in general is just to put flowers in the holes where things didn’t come up there’s a few spots in with the beans and things like that so I’ll probably put zenas and marold and things like that in those spots um maybe some dists just things to keep the pest down as well as make it look prettier I’m steing you’re making me very anxious I don’t want you walking please don’t walk because you don’t I’ve seen you step on my stuff before and I don’t like it okay just look I worked very hard to grow things it Chas the camera when you’re speaking so I can hear you I can’t just stare at the camera and not look at what I’m doing okay okay go ahead it looks very this is my garden and St stuff going over there this just not natural at all is that what you want no you can do it natural that’s fine gosh there’s cabbage there’s some broccoli that’s going to be the thumbnail oh there’s a new thumbnail Brian you better take that out God you’re obnoxious you bring out the worst in me um okay so I have Nappa cabbages which interestingly the Slugs would just eat to the ground literally the moment I set anything out that had a Nappa cabbage tag on it it was like the Slugs would be there on the ground going Nappa yum my favorite and we just come munch it right down to the ground in Oregon so I was very impressed that these are looking like they are and getting big and but some of the other cabbages are still pretty small but they looked kind of bad when I put them in so I’m thinking that they’ll they may still pick up what I’m not thinking is doing very well are the broccolis and cauliflowers so those unfortunately I kind of thought it’s a big gamble to see if I can get broccoli and cauliflower to grow especially since I planted it late so I’m fully expecting those to go to to just shoot up and go to seed and not do very well because it’s just really hot already so it’s been in the 80s but the cabbages still seem to be doing okay which I’m pleased about we’ll see how they do later on in the season I think we might get these Nappa cabbages in though and then I can make some nice stir fries and stuff so that will be good um but these don’t really matter as much because we’ll have a fall garden and so we’ll get all this stuff in the fall anyway so I just wanted to experiment a little to see if there were maybe some things that I could grow and so that’s what we’re doing so just to be clear all of this is the summer garden yes this is the summer garden and there going to be a whole another fall Garden yes there’s going to be a whole another fall Garden that’s a lot of work that’s that’s what we want to do all right and once we have the gardens established we’ll put chickens in them and we’ll put our goat manur in them and let the chickens work them in and it will be a lot less work than it was this first year where we were getting things started does take a lot more work than just maintaining something yep yeah so once we get and start maintaining everything I’m hoping that within 5 years we won’t even need these row covers because I know a lot of people are really kind of like E I don’t like having any weeds in my garden and things like that I am not one of those people I don’t mind that there’s grass growing along the edges and things like that I’m actually along these edges have started planting I chopped it all back and then I replanted a whole bunch of zenas and Cosmos and different flowers along the edge and I I think that it will still have tons and tons of grass in it but it’s also maybe going to have some flowers and so it’ll just make a nice little border area so I did plant okra in between all of these coal crops and my thinking is is that these will get tall and will shade the coal crops and then hopefully I’ll be able to get some of these other things particularly like the Cabbage which won’t like the sun baking on it it will actually kind of mold bake the leaves and they get nasty and slimy then so I’m hoping they’ll blush out and be very pretty and add some floral type interest cuz they they’re in the Hibiscus family so they look really pretty and but we’ll also cover and shade some of these cabbages in here and if that works then yay I’ll do cabbages every year if it doesn’t then we’ll just do the summer stuff that we’re supposed to do in here I have summer squash and some of them are getting the seeds I’m pretty sure are getting eat eaten down by Birds because I’ll see a whole row of birds along the cattle panels in the morning looking like they’re very well fed and so I’m thinking that I’ve already started some seeds just in a container to try and replant some of this stuff but some of it’s come up and I have a yellow squash there that’s gotten actually quite big so we’ll see how many squash we get before bind borers and things like that get them that wasn’t a problem we actually had when we lived in Oregon the problem we always had was that that the sun didn’t get them enough so that they would produce very fast so I’m hoping to get a whole bunch really fast eat them and then not want them again that’s the idea so uh we have yellow squash Patty pans um and a whole bunch of green squash in here so we’ll see if any varieties do better than others and things like that as well so I planted quite a large variety of different things different varieties of green squash different varieties of yellow squash and two varie these a Patty pans so they we’ll see how they do then I have some beets in here and this is more or less a giant huge experiment because it’s under this plastic and I’m kind of thinking they’re not going to do very well and I really densely sewed them so and a lot of spots didn’t they didn’t come up at all so I’m thinking I’ll have to probably go in here and maybe plant some maragold but in the meantime I I’ll need to thin these out some and so my thinking is I’ll let the leaves get a little bigger and then I’ll Harvest some just for the leaves and we’ll use those in you know an omelet in the morning or something like that and then the rest will leave in there I think I could leave like two in each of the holes and I’m kind of hoping that they’ll all kind of come up together and then I can just pull this edge of the fabric up and Harvest them all at once and then can some of them but yeah I was wondering about root things how do you get them out from under the plastic so yeah we’ll probably want to do root things more like we’re doing our our um potato garden and I also have in here I’ve got some different peppers so I went to town on Peppers this year because I’m so excited about being able to do lots of different peppers I want to do some PE pepper sauces and ferment some sriracha and have some taco sauce and just some different things like that cuz the peppers I could never really get to grow very well in Oregon because it would be you know the nights would get down in the 40s until almost July and then it would be 80° at night and 90° in the morning for a few months and then it it would stop and it was over and the peppers would never be big enough so I would only get a very small little pepper Harvest and only a few fruit for each plant and it was very dismal so I’m hoping I get a whole bunch here so I’m really excited about Peppers um then we have more tomatoes and I’ve also got a whole bunch of eggplants that I’m pretty excited about because I want to experiment with some different um sauces for um Indian and Moroccan food and things like that that I could actually have canned in jars um also some Thai food cuz I’ve got some Thai varieties and so that’s kind of an exciting thing and then also just making fresh things like babaan and stuff like that which is tasty these beans are my dry beans and so I’m I have quite a few dry dry beans in here A bunch of them didn’t come up and I think it’s just because I have had some pretty old seeds that I was using in some cases and so I’ve got some dry beans in here and then I also have some dry pole beans and then there’s just a couple up at the top that are the noodle beans the really long beans people call them asparagus beans yard long beans they got a lot of names so I have a couple varieties of those a green one and a red one that I’m growing up in the middle there but otherwise these are dry beans and then I’ve also ordered some that I’m going to put in that empty row here you’re talking about this this space here yeah in that space I’m going to put cow peas which are a fresh or drying pea variety that is a southern staple so we’ll have those they’re just a drying or you can eat them fresh but most mostly they’re drying pee like a blackeyed pee or something like that that will be good for winter eating and it’s a southern staple so I’m excited to be able to grow it because it was never something I could grow back in Oregon mhm try all the things yep be very very careful Brian CU see see how hard it is to see these things and if you pull it out from way down here it’s going to pull all these plants out so if you trip I’m going to murder you so along the edge I have a whole bunch of different sized melons so some of them are watermelon size but a lot of them are the smaller personal size melons so um I’m really excited about those cuz those have never ever even came close to coming up when we were in in Oregon I would get a plant and then we would get literally like a golf ball sized watermelon for a sugar baby and that would be it and so it would be very very disappointing it was so sad so I’m really excited to have the heat to grow these things I’m just really worried that bugs are going to get them so I grew a lot of varieties so that we can see what works and what doesn’t and then I also know that squash bugs are going to be a really big problem so I grew a lot that are in that sort of Butternut family but I did put in a few others that I just really like like there’s a curry squash k r i that is really good for like Thai and Indian Cuisine I really like eating it with that and then I put a couple of different varieties of sugar pie pump and then I’ve had some struggle you see the white tags in here every time I plant something in those white tags the birds have been eating them and so I I am getting some seeds for more in that Butternut family again the seminal squashes that are like a pumpkin and so I’m going to try planting some of those and I think I got some another variety of seeds as well that I’ll try and replant in those cuz obviously these pumpkins are yeah the bigger pumpkins are not wanting to do what they want what what I want them to because the birds keep eating them so I’ll try to replant them probably in pots first and then put them out melons and pumpkins are going to spread out aren’t they so and that’s why they’re all at this end because if they spread or if they grow up this trellis with all this stuff then you know this is going to be other than the beans up there and the tomatoes up there that I’ll have to keep them off of which is why those are all up at the top then I can direct everything to kind of grow towards over here especially this area where you know it it’s up for debate whether I’ll manage to get in here and get some other things planted that will grow up this trellis and things like that cuz this area right here is completely baren now I think they’ll they’ll probably just go somewhat that way if they go anywhere and I’ll just move the fence over all right so you are you you’re envisioning maybe some of the yard being taken over by the garden yeah so for next year what I want to do is cover this whole area here up towards where that little shrubby tree is the Cedar and have it extend out there and just have this be more of like where we grow our corn and stuff like that and I’ve been doing some research on corn and I think what we need to do is just find varieties that have a far enough from each other germination what’s the word date where they would be putting up their their heads for germination not germination that’s not the right way to say it I’m saying it wrong Brian so I want them to have different days where they pollinate and so if they’re different pollinators yeah no I want be careful where you’re stepping um I want them to pollinate a couple weeks away from each other so that they do not cross-pollinate that way you can keep your strains straight exactly CU with corn it will actually cause the kernels of the corn to be different things and so if you’ve got a sweet corn and a popcorn you don’t want to have popcorn kernels in your sweet corn that would just be gross so because I want to grow popcorn and sweet corn and Dent corn because we do have a dent corn sheller and also a um Little Flower maill so I could make cornmeal and things like that if we had some Dent corn which I’d be very excited about having our own Dent corn and obviously also could pop our own popcorn so that would be super fun yeah it’ll be fun to have different ways to preserve things and use them yep yep one of the big reasons why I’m really wanting these inground beds to work is that the problem I had with raised beds was that they were very very hard to irrigate um the irrigation was very complicated and when I put it in it was always leaking and it was you know buried under the ground and in the bed and just a big pain in the button you had all these tubes to pull out and things like that and I wanted it to be one thing that I could rip up every year and not have to do any more than that so what we’ve done is we have one main line that hooks directly to a hose that is on a timer at the house that run runs all along here and I left a whole huge extra line that will run along this new area that I want to have it up there for next year it runs all along the top here and then what we have down here are just little quter inch soaker hoses that run off of it they come down each bed or each line of the garden so for example if say I decide to do the the beds all differently I can put little plugs in those holes and run different lines if I need to and it’s really easy to just swap it out it might leak a little but I’m not so worried about getting a little extra water at the very top of the garden it’s just going to run down somebody may have notice we do have a standup sprinkler down there kind of in the middle so that’s just a transition yeah yeah that’s not going to stay there because it doesn’t it it’s not a good way at all to water a garden of this size it doesn’t reach and also it’s very wasteful of our precious well water I wanted something very um conservative of that precious resource for us so we don’t need to overwater things we’ve got a hose coming from the house but we didn’t want the hose to just run right over the driveway where deliveries and people are driving all the time so we ran a hose all the way from the house down over kind of near the pond there and then through this Culvert through this covert underneath the driveway and then out over to the Garden it’s a system that that works it’s not ideal perhaps in the future when we have a beautiful garden with permanent fences and all that kind of stuff we’ll have an actual yard hydrant out there to work with what’s that I said some Future YouTube person is already going oh my God he talked for five minutes about his hose what a [Laughter] weirdo everybody just wants to see the plants Brian I think a structural workaround that makes our garden function is interesting besides fishing that hose through that long covert was not an easy thing to do thanks for watching remember your dreams are closer than the moon thanks for taking this trip around the Moon with us [Music]