Late Summer Garden Update

Hey garden friends! 🌿 In today’s video, I’m sharing a late summer garden update and how I’m preparing my garden for the fall growing season. 🍂 From what’s thriving to what I’m cleaning up, plus my plans for cool-weather crops, this is the transition period every gardener loves!

Whether you’re growing herbs, veggies, or flowers, now is the perfect time to get your garden ready for fall planting. Join me as I walk through my garden and share what’s next on my to-do list! 🌻✨

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Hey, hey, hey, honey. Welcome to the hive. I am giving y’all a quick update on what is going on. It’s been a while since I’ve showed y’all what I got going. I know I’ve been doing videos here and there. Um, but as we enter getting ready to enter into fall, I just wanted to do a quick update. Um, a quick walk through through the garden, the hive, show y’all what I got going on. I did I said I wasn’t gonna do nothing today, but I did. I planted cabbage and carrots um as part of my fall garden. Um, what else? Y’all know I planted them the collard greens and stuff, but anyway, let’s flip the So, this was the tomatoes. I’m not gonna pull them up just yet, but as you can see, it is wow. It’s a jungle. Um, this year I did a I did a lot of experimenting with my garden just to try something out. You don’t know unless you try, but I planted um so on one side I planted tomatoes and toatillas. As y’all can see, the toatillas are growing out. I actually have um some of the tomatillas are starting to form in the bulbs. So, I’m excited about that because I planted tomatillas last year and they didn’t really do that good. But this year, baby, they on point. And then, as you can see, the tomatoes are slowly. They’re still growing. Um but not like they were in the beginning. So, I just kind of I don’t do much with them, but I do keep them watered. But, as you can see, the beans, y’all, I also planted beans in this bed. They’re sprouting and coming out. So, I’m excited about that. Um, I also planted, let me move this to you. Oh, if y’all see, look, there’s one right there. I’m so excited. Oh, I’m excited. But I also planted okra in this bed as well. Um, the past couple of weeks I haven’t been able to get out here fast enough to pick the okra, so it’s been getting kind of big. And, you know, if ochre gets too big, it gets tough. And you can’t, some people eat it, but I prefer not to. It’s too tough. So, what I do when it gets that big is I just been keeping the seeds from it for next year. We move the hive, y’all. So, it’s over there in the corner. Um, bees are doing good. They’re minding their business. I mind my business. But as you can see, my beans are growing. And I think that’s kind of I don’t know if that’s what’s causing my tomatoes to kind of slow down their production. Look, there’s another toatilla. Oh, I am so excited. But anyway, um bell peppers. So, I did bell peppers and peppers in one um bed on one side, and on the other side I did, let’s see, on the other Oh, I put some basil in here, too. But on the other side, I did like these cherry um peppers. I’m going to show y’all in just a minute. But I want to show y’all this because I have a watermelon growing. Actually, quite a few. It’s a jungle. A little baby jungle. But look at these. These are sugar baby watermelons watermelons. And I’m hoping that they get big enough before it get too cold so we can try to eat some. But there’s actually one I seen another one. It’s like two or three of them growing. Here’s one trying to sprout right here. So, it’s quite a few of them trying to grow. Oh, and then my banana peppers. I did banana peppers, jalapenos, um Tabasco peppers. Where is some of the peppers right here? But everything did good. Now, some of my leaves did get a little disease on them, and I know what that’s from. That’s from me um watering them at the wrong time of day. So, pests did get to them. A little disease got to them. But everything is still growing good. Um papayas. I planted some papaya seeds. They’re doing good. I have a lot of papayas. And I didn’t even realize I planted so many um papaya seeds. I’m starting some strawberries um that I ordered online. So by the spring I’m hoping that they’ll sprout and do real good. These are some more peppers, jalapeno peppers, and they’re doing good. But these bell peppers, y’all, is just growing like crazy. And I’m loving it. We’ve been I’ve been cooking with them, you know, picking them and eating them and cooking with them. These are super huge here. But I’m trying to let some of them turn red because I want to use them um when I make my hot sauce, my homemade hot sauce. Um I want to use the bell peppers um and the peppers in the garden. That’s my plan to use the peppers in the garden. But y’all, here’s those little um sweet cherry peppers I was telling y’all. And I’m trying to let them turn red as well because I want to make a jalapeno hot sauce, which I’ve already been experimenting with the jalapeno hot sauce. And it’s going good. Um and then I want to make like a red like hot sauce. So, two different sauces I want to try to make and see how they turn out. Like I said, the jalapeno hot sauce, it is real good, but I’m still I want to perfect it. I want to perfect it. So, and then this, y’all. Um, this is that habiscus. I talked about this once before, but it has gotten so big. And I can’t remember when I started the seeds, but it started from some tiny tiny seeds. It was just a couple of months back, and it’s already this big. Like I have three of them and I put two in each pot. So that’s what two, four, six habiscus trees. Uh next and when it warm back up, I’m not going to start any right now cuz it’s too late to try to start some. But next spring I’m going to start some more. I got my collards in here growing. It’s some onions. They haven’t sprouted just yet. Um I got peas beans back there growing. And like I say, this is just my fall little garden. Last year I didn’t do a fall garden, but this year I’m going to I got brave and I’m going go on and do one. Um the little chickens. My chickens. Hey girls. We also got some new um chickens. I got the new ones a month ago and they all just in there. It’s about time for the little ones. cuz I got to put them up cuz I don’t like to leave them out overnight cuz they’re kind of small and my coupe is not really just all the way complete. So, I got to protect them. But, I got four new baby chicks and it’s one of them is a rooster and I’m so excited about that. So, more meat, more meat, meat and eggs. That’s the go. But this is I planted some pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and beans over here. And I also planted some um I don’t know if I’m saying this right, sir gum. Because I seen that you can make popcorn. And I love popcorn. If you know me, you know I will get up at 2 o’clock in the morning and pop me some popcorn. That’s just how crazy I am about popcorn. So, I want to try um the sar gum because I heard it’s healthier because really um corn don’t digest just well in our system. So, if I could get this to pop right. Oh, baby, it’s going to be on and popping cuz my sister be like, “What you eating?” And I be like, “Popcorn.” She I should have known. But I love me some popcorn. There go the little babies. My little babies. The new babies. They trying to get those leaves. [Laughter] But and I also have a avocado tree planted back here as well. Um I started from seed. I started it’s actually two of them. And I started these from a seed that I brought at the grocery store. So this doing good. I have a bigger one across the street on the other property. But on this side, I try to do most of my gardening. Um keep everything on this side. But yeah, I bought so much stuff till this little space is just it’s not enough. I’m out growing my little space. So, I had to migrate and move some of the stuff across the street. We were trying to keep across the street more of like a a tropical vibe. You know, we got the palm the banana trees, the palm trees, but I’m like, I can’t eat none of this. Now, the banana trees, I can take the leaves and smoke some meat off in it. But for the most part, I’m I’m trying to get food, something going to keep you going. And not only that, hey, you don’t know how the economy going to go. I can trade my food for something else. Trade off. So, that’s why I I garden and do what I do. I’ve been gardening for a long time, but um not on this big of a scale. As a kid, I did like our whole backyard was just a big garden. My dad had a tractor and we was just out there planting seeds and we grew our own food. Um my mama did the herbs where we I didn’t even have a childhood doctor. Like I would go get my im my shots and stuff. Don’t get me wrong, we did do that. But as far as like having a medical doctor, we didn’t have one. And my mama was our doctor. She mixed up all kind of herbs and she still to this day. I’ll be like, “Oh, mama, my my knee hurting or something.” Well, rub some Vicks on it and then drink this and do that and baby, sure enough, the pain gone. So, I come from a line of nature lovers. From my grandparents to my great-grandparents to my mom and dad. It’s like it’s it’s it’s it’s continuing. The legacy is continued with the gardening. And who knows, I got big dreams. I have some ideas. Um right now I’m doing it on a small scale, but I have some different ideas of some things that I want to do on a bigger scale. But I know it’s all in timing and I’m good with that. I’m good with that. So, I’m just going to take my time and do it right. Um but here goes some more in it. This is a plum tree that I ordered um did I order this one from um a nursery online. I can’t I think it’s Ty nursery. I got a plum tree and I have another pomegranate tree. So, I ordered those online. And then these are my thornless ras blackberries. So, I didn’t get any this year. Um but where I got them from, I got to taste them and they’re really good. And you don’t have to worry about the thorns when you’re picking them. Um, and then more papaya. Y’all, I did not expect all. Look at these papaya seeds just done sprouted. I just be out here doing stuff. I really do. And then my sweet potatoes. Oh, I got a pecan tree growing. And then my sweet potatoes. They’re doing so good. This is the old bath my bathtub that we had. We replaced our bathtub. So, I was like, I’mma grow some sweet potatoes in here. So, here’s my sweet potatoes. They’re doing good. Now, I had something I noticed, y’all. I bought some potatoes from the store, and I bought these potatoes a while ago, and they haven’t started sprouting yet. So, usually by now when I used to buy potatoes from the store, they would sprout. But, I think the stores are catching on to what people doing. So, y’all get this stuff while you can and grow it naturally and keep the gardening going. Um, what is Oh, there’s something else. Okay, let’s keep going. Let’s keep going. Um, my peach tree. This is one of my peach trees. This my my baby peach tree. And this one back here by the chicken coop. It’s the main peach tree. We’ve been having that tree for about six six years. No, it ain’t been no six years. Maybe three years. Three years we’ve been having a beet peach tree. Let me tell you about this kitty pool. So, I took this pool and I had some seeds that had fell out of the seed packets and I just dumped them all in there. So, this is I call this my garbage um my little garbage plant bed. But the stuff is growing good in it. It’s growing real good. And I’m not saying it’s garbage cuz it’s stuff that I don’t use. It’s just got a little bit of everything in it. It’s got asparagus in it. Um, it’s got beans growing in it. And I noticed today, I don’t know if this is a zucchini or it look like a pickle. I don’t know, but it’s growing. So, I’mma let it do what it do. And then I got my lemon tree. It’s doing good. We did get lemons off of this. Not this year, but last year we did. So hopefully next year that’ll spr um give us some some more lemons. And then here’s my big pomegranate tree I’ve been having for quite a while. And I need to get get it out of a bucket and put it in the ground because it’s getting too big to be in this bucket. It really is. This is my little herb garden just on a small scale. Um, I got my peppermint, my lavender, lemon, um, verbanana, more lavender at the back. I got lemon bum growing on the other side. This is thyme. And I got what there’s some other herbs I got growing. I got herbs growing all around the uh yard. This is what I call pineapple hill. Um, I’m trying to grow some pineapples in the ground and see how that go. I’m hoping the winter when it comes it don’t kill them off. But we going to see how that go. Um I got two apple trees cuz in order for you to have apples, you have to have two different types of apple trees. The one in the back I’ve been having. Um but I added this one once I realized you have to have two different types in order to produce apples. And under my apple trees. So this is how you um utilize your space in your garden. So, under this apple tree, y’all, I planted strawberries. And the tree serves as a covering for my strawberries. So, that’s how Boy, what is you doing? My son, I don’t know what he got going. But anyway, that’s how you utilize your garden space. Companion plant is what it’s called. So, um, strawberries did pretty good. And here is since I got all this space by this apple tree. This is where I plant. On one side I planted carrots and on the other side I planted cabbage. So why not utilize your space. You got to know how to use it. Don’t take a whole lot um to do a garden. You just work with what you got. That’s that’s what I tell people. Whether you do it in buckets, it don’t matter how you do it cuz I got buckets out here. I got excuse me. I got buckets. I got stuff in the ground. It’s no wrong, right, or right way to do it. So, you do what works for you for the space that you have. Um, and I got um here where I made my little pun area. I come out here and kind of just have some time to myself and meditate. But I got basil, pineapples, sage. This is a wisteria tree. I don’t know where I’m gonna put it, but I got to figure out where I’mma put it. Um, it grows like some pretty purple looking flowers on it. So, I’m gonna figure that out. In this tree, I planted some more cucumbers. I’m hoping to get one more um crop before it gets too cold cuz I Y’all, I can some pickles. I did 10 jars. All 10 of them jars is gone. And I’m talking about the big jars, the big mason jars. The kids ran down through those. They was like, “Mama, they was good. But hey, they like this, so eat them up. But I do want to get one more harvest so I can make some more. But my goal is to get my peppers going so I can start working on my hot sauce, get that going. Um, but during the winter, I’ll mainly be strategizing my spring garden and getting ready cuz I want to get another hive. That’s something else. And I will be working on my hairline products. Um, I already have them out. Mosquitoes attacking, baby. I already have them out, but that will be my focus during the winter is promoting my hair products. And you can find my products at honeyhive botanicals.y.com. And like I tell y’all all the time, um, my focus is not my concern is not long hair. The gold is healthy hair. So, in order to get healthy hair, your scalp has to be healthy. And that’s what I make my products for is to promote healthy hair growth. Even if you don’t want long hair, you know, if you bald-headed, like I said, baldheaded, short hair, whatever, my products are made to heal your scalp because without a healthy scalp, you’re ain’t nothing going to happen. Nothing. So, y’all can head over to honeyhigh botanicals do honeyhotanicals. Right now, I’m using Etsy until I can build my own website. um and check out my products. And I also have a ebook on there. Um so those of you that want to get into gardening and you’re in zone 8b, I have a beginner’s guide for tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, I think, and it seem like it’s one more, but y’all head over and buy that that ebook and start planning for your spring garden. Getting ready. But I just, like I said, I just want Oh, I didn’t show y’all my sour. So, here’s my sour soap. It’s doing good. I have three different ones. There’s another one. And then the big big mama is right here in my little makeshift greenhouse. That’s my big mama. But they’re doing good. So, I got to get ready to figure out where Well, I know where I want to put this stuff for the winter. It’s just getting it in and getting it situated. But anyway, until next time, I am wishing each and every one of y’all peace, blessings, love, joy, and abundance in whatever you do, no matter what it is. Keep going. Don’t stop. Peace. And don’t y’all forget to like, share, subscribe, tell your friends, tell a friend, and tell a friend cuz we got it going on. Like I told y’all, I’m dropping gems. I am dropping gems and I’m giving y’all what you need to start off with a home garden. You don’t need a lot of space. You work with what you got. So don’t forget, like, share, subscribe, and comment. And head over to honeyhigh botanicals.y.com. Get your ebook on your gardening for zone AB and get your hair products while you’re at it. Peace.