winter harvests, some things for you to do in your garden this month some cool
gardening products and a lot more and today's episode of California gardening
we will begin with a garden tour we will look at the harvests we made this month
we will then look at some things for you to do in your garden and finally some
cool gardening products so let's begin with the tour of the garden in the
raised beds we have some green onions which have started bolting I'll probably
remove them soon followed by some other onions that are growing beside it and
some cabbages that are also growing in the same bed and we protected this with
the netting now right next to that bed we have the
hyacinth beans and they're still growing pretty well in the cool season and
producing a lot of beans and there are some potato plants that we just planted
these are the seed potatoes that we planted in this raised bed and I'll
probably top it off with some compost or more soil as the plants grow so this is
a good time to plant seed potatoes in your garden
in the next bed we have the Malabar spinach growing and I planted some taro
root plants as well there and right next to the Malabar spinach we have the
onions these are the onion sets we planted and the onion sets have now sent
out shoots and are growing pretty well so good time to plant onions and
potatoes in your garden we did harvest our kohlrabis from this bed and in
the next bed we have some cauliflower and cabbage plants growing
looking at containers now we have the pineapple plants at our growing well and
they've survived the winter season pretty well by looking at the leaves
here followed by some carrots that are growing in this visca barrel container
and we did harvest some carrots this month
and some sunchokes that I'm trying out for the first time
on the other side we have some cauliflower and cabbage plants growing
followed by the Ivy gourd which is dormant now
and finally some radishes that are growing this whisky barrel container and
are ready for harvest
and now let's look at some harvests we made in February we harvested a lot of
avocados this is the gem avocado and it has yielded a lot of avocados for us
this season and I will be pruning this tree soon after we completely harvest
the avocados cabbages cabbages a cool season crop and we did harvest a lot of
cabbages from our garden during February here you can see a really good sized
cabbage that was growing in the raised bed and even if you don't have large
sized cabbages even smaller sized heads like this one are nice to grow and
harvest in your garden don't be disheartened by the smaller sized
vegetables that you harvest
we were able to harvest a lot of carrots from these plants that were growing in
the whiskey barrel container and you have seen the progress of this plant in
my monthly videos as well these are the red carrots and it's amazing how many
carrots you can grow and harvest from a whiskey barrel sized container fresh
carrots are pretty amazing they're crisp they're fresh and they're delicious and
this particular variety the red carrot is one of my favorite varieties to grow
I have covered growing this carrot variety in other videos as well and
overall we were very happy with the carrots that we harvested from our
garden fenugreek this is an easy to grow herb
that can be grown in 16-inch containers very easily and as you can see here the
leaves are pretty nice green and vibrant and once the leaves reach to about this
size you can start harvesting them fenugreek has a lot of health benefits
especially for women so if you are planning to grow this herb in your
garden it's very easy to grow it it has almost no fertilizer requirements you
just sow the seeds and plant it and container and you can grow it very
easily hyacinth beans are actually growing pretty well and they've handled
the winter very good so far and some of my viewers have told me that hyacinth
beans actually grows very well during the winter season
and as you can see here we did harvest a lot of hyacinth beans and once again
these beans are not supposed to be eaten raw you need to cook highs in beans
before you consume it this is a very popular bean variety in some countries
and it's an absolute delicious bean to grow
followed by some kohlrabi that we harvested this is the purple kohlrabi
and the purple kohlrabi is grew okay not that great but I wanted to show you how
your kohlrabi harvest should ideally look like and this is a pretty decent
sized kohlrabi bulb that you see here and this purple kohlrabi is absolutely
delicious very crunchy very nice flavor and a joy to grow in your garden
the longevity spinach is something that we've been growing for a while now and
this is a perennial spinach variety it is absolutely delicious and also grows
very well very easily and we made some longevity spinach mixed with some
lentils and spices and as you can see here it looks amazing
the Washington Navel oranges that we were growing
produced a lot of oranges during this month as well
you have been looking at my harvest in the past few months and the oranges are
producing pretty well for the past few months so I'm really very happy with
this orange variety it's very delicious and easy to grow
the watermelon radish was the radish variety that we were growing for about
two to three months now and we were able to harvest some more watermelon radishes
this month this is pretty much the end of the cool season crops some of them
might grow into March as well but I was trying to harvest most of my cool season
crops by this month and the watermelon radish which is not only very good
tasting but also very good looking radish variety that we grew in our
garden so if you're trying to grow this radish variety in your garden I do
recommend that you should give it a shot and then you will be very surprised at
how good this radish tastes and looks it's a great addition to your salads for
eating raw it's not very pungent it's sort of very delicious tasting radish
and after washing it you can see that we got this huge bunch of watermelon
radishes we harvested from the garden moving on to the things to do this month
in your garden so if you haven't already started your summer vegetables this is a
good time to do so the nights were very cold in the past week so make sure you
grow them in a greenhouse or under grow lights inside your house so that you can
germinate and grow properly
and now let's look at some gardening products this website called new chick
com has some cool gardening products and this is one of the products that was
sent to me for review I don't have any association with this company and this
is an honest review of this product and as you can see here this is a pretty
innovative concept basically what they have done is combined a gardening glove
into something that can be used for digging with your fingers it's a pretty
unique concept and I really liked it and when I started using it I saw that there
were multiple uses for it for example you could rake the leaves around your
plant just by using these gloves that baking part of this gloves which are
basically sharp ends of plastic and it becomes really easy because the best
tool that you could use is your hand and the quality itself is pretty good I was
able to clean the gloves after use and they're pretty much like any other
gloves you can wash them as well after they use
I kept these gloves in complete sunlight for about five days to check if the
material had any issues or it went bad or it melted and surprisingly it stood
very well against the elements the sunlight could not really damage the
material on the gloves so overall I am pretty happy as you can see here I'm
removing the weeds around my onion plant I'm also aerating the soil which is very
important for your plants to grow well and I think this gloves helps me achieve
this purpose very easily so if you want to know more about this product or if
you want to buy this product do check out this information on your screen and
it's pretty reasonably priced at about $7 it's pretty reasonable and shipping
is free as well so I do recommend that you check it out
and moving on to more things in retail at your local gardening stores you will
find seed potatoes onion sets everything that you can just buy and plant in your
garden right now the onion sets were the ones that you saw in my raised bed tour
they're easy to grow and they are very productive as well the bare rooted
plants like grapes and cherries and peaches are also available in your local
gardening stores like loaves or Home Depot
and then in Costco you can see a lot of interesting products like the whiskey
barrel containers at very affordable prices they also have earthworm castings
at very affordable prices as well so it's a good time to stock up on whiskey
barrels and other things that you need for your gardening season so there we
have it folks that was our episode on the California Garden for the month of
February if you like this video do give us a thumbs up and if you have any
comments put them in the comments box below we'll see you again soon happy
gardening