So Much Has Changed!! July 2024 Backyard Garden Tour – Gardening In Kansas

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[Music] hey guys welcome back if you’re new here hi I’m Bri I live in Kansas Zone 7A and today I’m going to give you a tour of my backyard garden here in the month of July July and August my garden Hits full Peak if you can’t tell we really just started to hit that Peak but over the next four weeks the garden is going to be one of my favorite times of the year by time we hit mid August the garden’s been hit with so much heat and humidity it does start to die back and have a little bit more sickness so this is when everything looks so green and I am just loving it this year I put melons on these chuses instead of tomatoes and my chuses have never looked this amazing at the beginning of July and I am loving it but there’s so much to show you guys today I’ve been getting tomatoes out of the garden the onions are on the very edge I’ve already harvested about 20 onions but let me stop spoiling it and let’s just go ahead and jump right into the garden tour so my front chalice here is cantaloupe this is how’s best jumbo this is a cantaloupe variety that I’ve grown for the last 2 years I saved the seeds 2 years ago and these are the seeds I’ve saved these melons have done so well for me these cantaloupes are so big normally the first few are so large they’re bigger than my head they are really good siiz cantaloupes and they taste so good we have so many cantaloupes actually setting fruit I’m going to get my melon cradles out and probably put my melon cradles on later because these are looking like they are going to start needing um some support they are growing so fast melons grow so quickly once they really set the fruit um but let me show you guys these cuz they look so good and these are one of my favorites so right here we have two already and they’re already such a good size but we have those two there here’s another one so there’s three there’s a small one right there already there’s one that’s a bit smaller those ones down there looked like this about a week ago on this side there’s another smaller one here’s another pretty good siiz one right in the front a smaller one an itty bitty one there’s a few bigger ones over here too there’s another really good size cantaloupe as well so along the front I have Goldie honey bear sunflowers this time last year I already had some of these blooming but they were volunteers um these ones look like they’re going to be a bit smaller for me honestly cuz they’re already starting to warm their heads and everything but I still think they look really really good with the trellis space here so the last few years I’ve done tomatoes on my trellises they’re just not as full and I really wanted a really full fol year I also have a bunch of herbs I need to actually get on preserving so this is parsley Rosemary mint um eona is over here this is a type of habiscus called ziner habiscus um and I’ve been doing this for tea and then I just have some zenas and some lavender and all of that also mirrors I have random Cosmos on both sides of the trellis space as well these are my queen orange lime zenyas the one thing I love about this series is no one of them looks the same even from the same seed packet so we have these ones which this like deep red color is probably one of my favorites that comes out of the package then we have more of this like peachy tone that has just different variations really I I really like how these ones look a little bit more Sunset when they get more full and these ones over here are more Peach maybe a little bit more yellow but really really pretty flowers as well and I already do have my first sunflower Bloom by the way this is a lavender called Elegance lavender and is a first Bloom lavender I have never been able to really get nice blooms off my lavender because if we have a really cold winter here um it tends to not overwinter well and I have to start over a lot of the time so I’m really excited about this I mean it is smaller still but I’m really excit excited to see what it will do I’ve harvested some off of it and it smells really nice so if you have ever had issues with lavender um maybe try this one cuz I’ve been really liking it this is where all of the garlic was and now the garlic is fully cured um it cured pretty quickly we had a really hot June um it cured in about 3 and 1/2 weeks and now I already have corn going I have okra going and then I also have zucchini going so I wrapped my zucchini in insect netting that seems to help me at least with squash bu and also um Vine board um I have these Metal Frames that we bent from bootstrap we just bought these um metal rods from I believe Home Depot or Lowe’s and then we have a bender and I have like five or six of these and they’re very sturdy especially just for our windy conditions and things like that this is something I want to use a lot more come this fall in Winter to try to maybe over winter um just a few more things I do plan to plant a good amount of broccoli and cabbage I started those seeds already for the fall Garden um all of this stuff was just planted in this space what about like 3 weeks ago maybe a little over 3 weeks but roughly 3 weeks ago and it already looks like this so things are growing really quickly now that we’re just really really warm so when it comes to like different things like the hoop I just love stuff like this cuz I think it just adds like an extra visual to see kind of like the strawberry cage and the trellises and like the A-frame trellis and things like that I just love the different heights and different like textures it brings to the Garden also these were the peppers that I put out after the garlic as well these were the ones I started along with all the other peppers I just ended up a potting them and keeping them under my grow lights for a while and as you can see they’re doing quite well so this one here is a banana pepper this is a paa pepper that’s the Hungarian magar um this is a Cayenne a jalapeno and then I want to say this one’s a snacking pepper I lost the little tag for that guy but they’re all doing really really well I’m really loving the cosmos this year honestly so in past years I’ve never like just loved them but planted a good amount of them out and I’m just loving the different texture it’s bringing especially with like the zenyas and stuff like that so I planted this Bright Lights Cosmos I need to go ahead and dead head everything I probably should have done that last night but I have two different varieties I can’t remember what this one is this was just a random seed packet I had so I planted them out and they’re really pretty I think they go really well um these are also the ones I have over here these ones are a little less full at the moment they look so beautiful like a week ago but I’m loving this bright light blend I think it’s really really pretty and it add just such a beautiful pop of color right in the front and I’ve just been really loving it our second wave of strawberries they’re starting to put on more Bloom so I grow ever bearing strawberries I can’t remember what the one variety is but the one variety I grew is Ozark beauty I’m actually thinking I might look into maybe completely resetting these I don’t know cuz out of nowhere of course I’m starting to get like the best berries I’ve ever grown some of them are really close but there’s some really good berries on here I don’t think I’m going to pick any at the moment I want them to ripen up a little bit more but you can see there’s some really really good looking berries on these plants so there’s not that many but like I said they’re starting to flower again and put out more flowers I did thin out this whole bed uh I want to say 2 3 weeks ago and it still looks crazy I probably need to go through and rip out some of that cuz we’ve been really hot and humid there’s a small green Berry so we are starting to get our second wave these are ever bearing other variety you can get is June bearing and it makes sense they um pretty much put on one big amount in June and everbearing kind of gives you multiple harvests throughout the season unfortunately I cannot grow enough strawberries really to preserve anything with this is enough to eat fresh maybe throw in something or two um they’re still amazing strawberries but I feel like I would need to grow a minimum of 3 to four times the amount to really do anything with my strawberries but here here’s all of the onions and honestly they may not look as pretty but they look so good I’m I’m so excited about these onions I’ve already harvested 20 I counted before I came out this morning but you can see their tops are really starting to flop I came out last night to double check and I either may have missed a few or some of them flopped overnight I’m so excited about these onions though one of my biggest ones I’ve already harvested and they all are just so so good so I’ve been letting them just kind of clonk out on their own really this week I expect them to be fully out of the garden probably by the end of the week I give it maybe a few more days to be honest but they all look really really good so the sign you’re looking for is when these onion tops completely flop over and this part of the neck is soft and just is broken at the neck de at that point you can go ahead and harvest it but yeah I’m really excited to talk to you guys about the onions by the way speaking of so the garlic is completely cured and I weighed it out so this year I planted less garlic and got more pounds like I was saying I really felt like it was going to be that year wow these garlic heads were so beautiful so for instance last year I grew I want to say roughly 175 heads of garlic and I planted them closer out to about I want to say 6 in between each other um and I got 12 1/2 lbs of garlic this year I had 145 heads of garlic and I had 19 and 12 lbs at the end of the year this also ends up um mattering with variety cuz two of the varieties I grew this year were larger um and you get more weight for what you grow but that also plays a role but that amount oh my gosh I’ve already made garlic powder as well so definitely a huge win with the garlic and this year huge win with the onions last year I had a really good year with onions but I’m telling you this year is looking so much better and I can’t wait to share it with you so yeah all of that is coming out this week and this will actually be a gap just for a small amount this is where some of my fall stuff will end up going in a few weeks some more carrots are going to go over here so speaking of carrots though that’s what I have at the end of this little strip and I need to get the rest of these harvested this week as well I’m going to be planting out more carrots over here come the next like 2 weeks so I need to go ahead and get the final carrots out so far I’ve had some amazing carrots this year so one thing you might remember is I’ve had a bunch of carrots along my tomato area over here and I really really like that so the edging of those garden beds would dry out so much faster and I really feel like the carrots had to reach for water ooh that’s a really good one um so they had to really reach for water and they grew so fast and they were some of the most beautiful carrots um but by them drying out and having to reach for water I really feel like they just were very long and they were just I don’t know they were some of the best carrots I’ve ever grown and I just grew them along the edging um and that was just a really great of space as well and they did really well there so I’m probably going to do that more cuz that worked out really really good but these look so good this right here is probably one of my favorite views of the garden right now because the trellises just look so beautiful I love these trellises so much so they are just cattle panels you can find them for roughly like $30 now they used to be closer to 20 but still for a trellis that is a great deal especially for something that just brings you so much Joy I’m telling you at it you can grow so many different things on them but yeah the Honeydew is looking so good as well the Honeydew I feel like is a little bit behind the cantaloupe um but this is my first year growing honeydew and I’m very very excited um I did read that so cantaloupe kind of takes itself off the vine once it’s ready and that’s one reason why I love the melon cradles but apparently cantaloup uh honeydew doesn’t do that and you have to cut it off um if you have any uh honeydew tips please let me know this is my first year growing it honeydew is one of my favorite melons and I’m so excited this year to give it a try cuz can cantaloupe has been a GameChanger if you like cantaloupe you have to try to grow it it’s been so easy for me melons I don’t really care to grow for so far has been watermelons actually I need to give them another shot if you have your favorite watermelon variety let me know um but I just wasn’t the biggest fan last year when I tried the sugar baby uh watermelon so yeah let me know not the biggest fan so far but let me show you some of the honey I’ve been seeing cuz I did just spot this little guy he looks so cute here’s another one I also just have some more herbs over here I have some more oregano which is doing absolutely phenomenal uh now that I’m looking at it closer I really need to harvest some more of that that is on the too list I need to apparently have some grass over here growing with my Rosemary so let me pull that out uh but the Rosemary is doing really well I also have some more mint over here here too but here’s the Yaro in eonia I really need to go through um and dead head a lot of this stuff in the Yaro that is dead um I have gotten multiple Blooms of the Yaro but typically it puts on this one really pretty Bloom and then it just kind of dies back I really need to thin it out this year because the eona was kind of taken over a little bit it’s still doing quite well and I planted some more up front this is um all perennial for us I just have it in this 100 gallon grow bag and this year one thing I did was I put teap poost around and I just kind of wrapped it around and the leaves kind of covered everything up this really helped with wind and storms and I really really liked doing that but I love this just very wild look I love I love the look of cone flower I love the bright orange and the purple and again with the bright light Cosmos I think it just really brings out those colors together and I’ve just been loving it this year I love all the tops of deep oranges I have over winter I spent a good amount of time being very indecisive on what flowers I wanted to grow cuz I just wanted everything to really fit this year um and now that everything is blooming it’s so pretty to see and I’ve just been really loving it but as you might be able to see my other trellis is also doing quite well the trellis tunnel is honestly thriving so my trellis tunnel is 20 ft long I might make it a little bit longer in the future um because at the end of the year this loofah plant will be all the way down and it will wrap all the way down at that point these lofas go crazy so I have lofas planted at the very edge here I have two plants and again they go all the way lofas really really climb and go along you can see they they’re already out to right here like we’re already toward the end of the trellis already so last year um Mid July I want to say the trellis uh the LOF I want to say the lofa was about to be here honestly we’ve been so much warmer over June that the garden has just exploded I really feel like our Peak this year started a little bit early um compared to last year because we have been so much warmer so if you don’t know I have this project where um it’s a temperature blanket where I’m tracking every single day in the temperature and I track it on a blanket on the color and I just did my halfway update and we’ve already had I want I want I want to say I recall if I’m wrong I’ll put it across the the screen but 13 more days above 60 and we’ve already had 10 more days above 90 we had so many more days in the ’90s in June already um so it’s really crazy to see those differences overall this year we’ve been warmer even though we’ve had a crazier swing of temperatures this year so it’s just been really crazy to see the comparison um cuz I’ve never really kept track that closely but that was one reason why I wanted to do the project so I could really correlate it to the Garden but over here I also have a bunch of green beans green beans kind of start all the way and kind of go mostly all the way down I also have some cucumber down there and some tomato plants as well but I wanted to plant a bunch of Po green beans this year I really wanted to try to have a green bean Redemption year so far this year I’ve gotten a good amount of bags in the freezer and we’ve been we’ve been eating on some green beans so I’m really happy with how these are performing uh this is the variety called Shea shells um it’s a pulled Bean variety it’s been doing really well for me I have a good amount of flowers still going and these plants should continue to produce throughout the season really awesome clusters of really goodlooking green beans the lofas really bring on the bees they really just love these yellow flowers and they are always just swarming with different bees so I have this one here this one’s been on the longest I’ll probably be the first to rip in but 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven there’s definitely some small ones on here um somewhere but these plants typically average me about 20 to 25 lofas per plant here’s a good looking cluster another good looking cluster they have produced so many green beans so far so I’ve been loving doing green beans on the trellis I should probably trellis my tomatoes up a little bit better at this point but I am able to go ahead and harvest some of my pink bumblebee cherries I will do this later I like to throw these on Pizza when I’m just getting a few um actually I might wait oh no I will harvest these cuz the rain overnight that we’re going to get um we’ll probably end up cracking these Okay so so here is a little tip when it comes to ripening tomatoes and if you have rain on the way so if you have rain on the way it in my experience is better to go ahead and pick those tomatoes and let them finish ripening on your counter because if you get too much water the skin when a tomato is ripening is a lot thinner and if you get an influx of water it can actually cause your skin to crack um some varieties are more prone to doing this um but in my experience my cherry tomatoes do this um some of my paste tomatoes in the past I’ve experienced Amish paste they do this a lot so if you have a bunch of rain on the way and you have some red tomatoes in my experience it’s best to go ahead and pull those off and honestly I pull off a lot of my um ripening tomatoes and I let them finish ripening inside once they’ve ripened to like the orange stage just so my plants continue to put energy and other tomatoes and you have um less pest pest pressure and also birds and squirrels tend not go after them if you go ahead and pick them uh when they’re in that uh ripening stage so there’s my little tidbit when it comes to harvesting Tomatoes oh and I guess the last thing is I actually will harvest my tomatoes in the evening so tomatoes are one of those few things I typically won’t pick in the morning I will um I’m not I mean I’ll pick it when I need to pick it but if I have a preference I typically pick my tomatoes in the evening because after they experience that warm Peak um during the day the sugar is kind kind of condens a little bit um and it’s been known just to create a little bit more of a sweeter tomato so I have a Sam warano here I did have another one here but I did end up pulling it I talked a little bit more about that uh last week but I planted a melon here so this melon I am so excited about my aunt was recently in Greece and she got these seeds from Greece from a restaurant owner um and they’re some type of melon I don’t know what type of melon it’s a mystery melon and I’m really really excited to see what type it will be it honestly looks like a cantaloupe honeydew but the translation on the seed packet said dehydrated a melon and watermelon and a lot of melon seeds look very similar um and also noted I should probably weed my garden later I’m really excited to show you guys this though I don’t know if you can see how tall this sunflower is or not but this was a volunteer um and this might be one of the tallest volunteer sunflowers I’ve ever had it hasn’t even started blooming yet but I’m 56 so if I’m standing beside it it probably is at least I would say 9 to 10 ft tall at this point this trellis is uh more than six I can’t remember feet tall but it’s pretty tall and I’m really really excited about it I did cut out like a little area I could walk through um just so it wasn’t just running into the trellis and causing like disease and air flow I do do need to cut back probably a few more flowers but I just crawl through and I’m on the other side it’s like a little secret tunnel but it’s super cool and I absolutely love it I can’t wait for this thing to bloom I have that one sunflower that’s bloomed but I would I would say my sunflowers are probably going to start really being in Peak toward like the third fourth week of July um that one just grew really fast that was a y I thought was going to look different um but I still like it it’s fine I just love sunflowers uh but yeah this one’s going to be really cool it’s going to be really branchy I almost wonder if this was uh one of the ones I grew last year called Paint box bouquet I think it was it was a bunch of these different colors um that were just really pretty so that’ be really cool if it was I have some pretty good looking jalapenos at the moment so I’m really really excited about this I want to do a bunch of salsa this year and pickled jalapenos and it’s looking like the jalapenos are just looking really really good I also have some Tomatoes over here but these Tomatoes down here is what I wanted to talk about because I ended up having some blossom end rot so yeah I’m dealing with a little bit of Blossom and rot and it’s not on all of these plants either so I expected if I had any problem with any of my soil it would probably be this so this is my oldest soil I’ve had this soil in these grow bags for 7 years I did throw some bone meal over here at the beginning of the season but I’m almost wondering um if they’re just they if they needed that a little bit more ump so um otherwise I pulled all the fruits off and everything looks like it’s doing well so we’ll see um these ones are just giving me a little bit harder of a time my one area of tomatoes though is so so good let me show you all the ones we have in the middle strip garden bed as you can see they are just flooded with some beautiful beautiful Aras okay but seriously look at these Tomatoes okay so the four right here is a new variety for me called Inca Jewels this is supposed to be a good compact uh variety for containers um I got these seeds from Rene’s Garden but they are a Roma past variety and they have been packing on the fruits honestly really really impressed with these plants so far and then moving on to the center portion this was a variety I grew last year as well and these were some of my favorite last year they did clonk out a little bit early because of light um but they produced a lot of fruit so I gave them another shot so this is a variety called supro as you can see really big beautiful paste tomatoes looks like I have a few back here that I could probably go ahead and harvest later on but look at that cluster seriously look at that cluster how beautiful are these Tomatoes oh there’s another good one back there as well and then all the supremos go all the way through here and then these two back here are also classic Romas and the classic Romas are planted over here and also this back corner and these by far are my best looking Romo plants so I think the soil overall over here is probably better than those two spots but seriously look at those clusters of fruits like seriously these are some of the best paste determinant tomato plants I think I have ever grown and I am so so happy with what these are looking like this year I love growing paste tomatoes I’m not a tomato eater I’m not a big fresh tomato eater I will eat some of my my own fresh tomatoes but even then that’s still a rare occurrence I like tomato products I like making salsa I like making uh sauces I want to do a bunch of diced tomatoes this year that was an absolute favorite uh new canning item I did last year um I love tomato products and I love making tomato products so growing a paste tomato is really really good for canning an heirloom tomato or a big beef steak tomato those are really good for slicing it on tomatoes they’re more water and a paste tomato is more dense so if you aren’t a tomato eater in my experience I’ve liked the paste tomatoes fresh because they tend to be less watery deeper in flavor um so if I’m going to eat a fresh tomato it’s probably going to just be one of these um I’m very very picky about them uh but I am so so so happy with how these are looking we are about to be flooded in tomatoes I already have I want to say probably close to 20 tomatoes on my counter and give these plants about another week or two and I’m going to be swimming in tomatoes so I’m really just going to be starting a lot of my canning I plan to do a lot of salsa this year and again diced tomatoes those are the two top things I want to can over the next few months as the onions are out the garlic is out the tomatoes are out I’ll be able to use so much I think last year I was able to use everything out of my garden but cilantro when it came to the salsa um so I’m really hoping to be able to do do that again cilantro for me is tricky outside of the Fall window but it’s so fun to be able to use um so many ingredients from your garden and be able to can something like that and it’s just so special so really hoping to have a really good tomato year so far it’s looking like me changing the location of the tomatoes um is working out quite well these were in my inground space for the last few years and I wanted to move them out of that space here I have a volunteer sunflower as well but the Snap Dragons are still holding on a a little bit they still add a beautiful little pop of color and just cottagey Vibes and I’m still just absolutely loving them but they definitely don’t look as pretty as they did in the month of June but I have pockets of Basil everywhere and one thing I keep forgetting to mention this is a volunteer psup plant I probably shouldn’t keep that in there that’s part of the mint family um and this is starting to look like it wants to go to seeds so this this is a basil variety called lemon basil and when you smell this it honestly smells just like a lemon drop so I think I want to try to maybe find some recipes that use lemon basil and play around with this I just had seeds and I wasn’t positive on it so I think I want to play around with it and it’s starting to let on me a little bit but I have these two plants of lemon basil here and yeah I want to play around with them so moving on to all of my Peppers here in the front I have my cayen and this year I really wanted to try to find a variety that was thicker walled um I was really tired of working with cayen that just had very thin skin and were hard to decede if I wanted to create a cayenne powder versus a Cayenne flake so this year um I went searching and this is the red Ember from Johnny’s last year I grew a a different one from Johnny’s and I absolutely hated it it was awful um this one I am loving so much the walls on it are as thick as my peppera peppers and honestly they were so easy to work with that I really want to keep growing these and they’ve been really turning colors as well I have a few more on this plant and this plant here but I have six or seven of these Cayenne plants and so far I’m really really loving them I have a few sorrano plants and my sanos are really starting to pick up I will use a lot of soranos and jalapenos um for my Salas and then I have a good amount of banana peppers putting on this one got a little bit of suns scold as you might be able to tell so let’s go ahead and just take that one off but these banana peppers are just such a good size and I don’t have as many of these I don’t know if I’ll be able to do as much with the banana peppers this year as I was maybe hoping but I do want to at least pickle one round of banana peppers I really love having banana um pickled banana peppers for pizza and I didn’t pickle any last year and I’m on my last little bit that I can use up um in my pantry downstairs and then I have some bell peppers and this year my bell peppers are looking really really good look at that so far so hopefully these do well here I was hoping that the pepper would do well in this little area because my tree up here Shades out a lot of the peak Peak sun and I was hoping that might create a little bit more of like a shade cloth for the peppers um because I was experiencing a lot of sunscald last year that took out a lot of my uh bell peppers and such but yeah these are looking so so good and then I have a new variety over here this is a pablano I’ve never grown pablanos before um but I really wanted them so I could try to fry them and do like a stuffed pablano pepper I’ve been really loving this snacking pepper variety so this is the little Peppers you find in a bag that are mixed like orange red and yellow I’ve had some orange ones I want to say I probably got two orange and one yellow um but they did start to change colors and they are really good I am loving this so far this is a um VAR it’s called lunchbox um lunchbox pepper mix or something it’s from Johnny’s um you can find them there and then I just have peppery on the rest and these plants have been doing really really well so um this is just the Hungarian magar again I’ve grown this now gosh for four or five years and I’ve already done one round of peera over the next few weeks I should really start seeing these Peppers just take off um I always feel like I have a really really like huge Harvest of peppers come August like the August time frame but I have gotten a good amount so far already for June which is kind of surprising so over here in the inground space that I have this is where the broccoli was and it’s going to be blank until I probably plant more cool weather crops over here as you can see it just Shades out a lot right here and when I went to go think of something else to plant I decided to leave it and have more room for fall crops um if I would have planted this out I wouldn’t have had any room um for extra fall crops and I kind of want to play around with planting some of the Bell star I started off a good amount um to where I could play around with this a little bit to we’re trying to plant out some of the plants a lot earlier than I previously have because they do have some heat resistibility and with this being shaded out I think this area might really work for this experiment but over here I do have all of my sweet potatoes and I’m really excited the sweet potatoes are really starting to take off I’m not exactly sure what varieties these are but this is a conventional sweet potato and this one here is a Japanese sweet potato you can see they’re starting to climb a little bit I’m trying to guide them on where to go but they are filling out like crazy I think we have roughly four more months until our first average frost so I’m really excited to see how much of this trellis uh will be full or how this uh area really Cascades over I do have some habiscus right here this is a variety called Zinger habiscus um it’s a variety that you use for tea I have harvested some of it already and I’m really excited about it after it ballooms um it forms this uh kaix kyx um and you harvest that and you dry that so that’s really exciting we drink a lot of hibiscus tea and that’s another one of my volunteer sunnies and then this is what’s left over of the poppies I harvested almost all of the poppies minus this little pod here and this one here um I got about three tablespoons of poppy seeds out of this little space I made two lemon poppy seed Loaves and I am just obsessed with them so I really want to try to grow uh some more poppies next year the variety of Poppy I grew is the bread seed poppy there’s I believe two or three different ones that are known to be used for culinary purposes um and lastly I have some dalas over here um so far I’ve really liked having the dalas this is a variety from floret called bees choice and it’s just a bunch of these random really pretty colors and I’m just loving what they’re bringing to the Garden then I have one of my Elderberry plants here this is one called Black blaz honestly I did not get many berries this year I just still have um some in bags that are finishing the ripening process but overall uh a little bit disappointed in the elderberries this year but I can’t be too mad I’m still early on and these plants are still young it does look like I might have some hiss up that’s about to bloom this plant smells like straight up licorice but the bees love it and over here this is the area where the chickens were at the beginning of the season I finally planted this out last week week so I just threw a bunch of random zenyas that I seed saved from last year’s Garden because I wasn’t sure if anything would really come up over here because this area also Shades out heavily because I have my two trees but they’re starting to pop up I have a ton of zenyas popping up so I will go through and I will thin out this space but I think it’s just going to be really cool if I have a really cool Zena patch and then I have my other eldery plant over here called Instant Karma then I have some irises over here that I planted and I can tell I’m starting to get some new growth popping up so that’s really exciting well guys I just wanted to say thank you so much for joining me in the Garden today I hope you enjoyed seeing the Garden in a little bit more detail here in the month of July if you’re not subscribed make sure you’re subscribed because the garden in the next 4 to 6 weeks is going to be thriving and producing so much food so you don’t want to miss a thing but thank you guys so much for being here I’ll see you guys all on the next one bye [Music] w [Music]