Welcome back to our California garden! February has been an incredible month for harvesting a wide variety of tropical fruits and cool-season vegetables. In this video, we take you on a full tour to see what’s thriving and share some essential tips for growing your own food at home.
What’s in this video:
– Unique Harvests: See our “crispy” cauliflower that chefs love and learn how weather affects its growth.
– Succession Planting: How we keep a steady supply of fresh cilantro all season long.
– Ginger & Turmeric: Tips for growing ginger in containers and why patience is key for these long-season crops.
– Tropical Fruits: Harvesting Thai White Guavas, Yellow Strawberry Guavas, and container-grown Pineapples.
– Citrus Favorites: A look at our beautiful, deep red Blood Oranges.
– Garden Prep: Transitioning from overwintered tomatoes to this year’s new crop.
Products Mentioned:
Roots Company Coconut Coir – https://amzn.to/4kYdt9P – A high-quality, well-washed growing medium for permanent plants.
EarthBox – https://amzn.to/3MMlmm3 – Used for growing our compact ginger.
Whiskey Barrel – https://amzn.to/4cjRjMU – Great for larger plants like turmeric.
Organza Bags – https://amzn.to/4cjRjMU – These are essential for protecting ripening fruit from squirrels and other critters.
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With Tumeric, does it die back every year? And will it regrow?
Bought a nice turmeric starter plant last year only to have it wither in the fall. Wondering what to do with it now.
Harvest : Thai white guava, cauliflower, ginger, cilantro Succession plantings 6 weeks apart in shallow flat containers, blood oranges, container pineapples, overwintered tomatoes, turmeric.
Seed starting mix recipe of 2 parts coco coir to one part perlite, and mineral based potting mix recipe with perlite, vermiculite, sand, pumice, gravel, coco coir, etc.
Fresh and beneficial vegetable plants for our bodies, thank you for sharing my friend.
Thank you for Another great video as always sir.
Can you please share how you make the labels for your seed trays? Do you use a label maker? If so, which one?
Also, I am surprised you don’t make your own vermicompost. Vermisterra is a bit on the pricier side for me. It is so easy to raise earthworms and harvest vermicompost 3 times a year with minimal time or dollar investment. I am a 70 year old woman living about 45 minutes east of you and make my own vermicompost with 3 fairly small worm bins.
Wondering if you have tried keeping worms or for some reason given up on it.
Also, please share the variety of the various produce items you grow so we know which one have worked well for you and which ones haven’t. I am not sure if you shared the tomato variety that you overwintered or maybe I missed it.
Also, please share the dates for when you start your various seeds for the season such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, peas, etc.
Or maybe share a calendar for indoor and outdoor planting schedule for all the vegetables in our area.
Looking forward to your March vlog.