in the monthly gardening series of videos today we will look at the
California garden in the month of july this month
the garden has a lot of summer plants growing and it's one of the best months
for harvesting a lot of vegetables
this video is divided into four sections
we will first take a look at the garden tour
we will take a look at the harvest that we made we will then take a look at
what's growing in the California garden in the month of july and finally we will
look at some things that you need to do in your garden this month after harvesting
our red onions
we planted some emerald okra in this bed and this is the okra that has been
growing for a while now and it's producing excellent okra pods
this is the tomato bed
as you can see we're growing a lot of varieties of tomatoes and this is what i
call my tomato jungle
in this bed we had garlic harvested and then we planted some bush beans
this is our corn bed the Triple Crown hybrid variety and we have had a lot of
corn from this bed
we then move on to the peppers and eggplant bed which produced a lot of
poblano peppers and some delicious eggplants
now let's look at some of the harvests that we made
hyacinth beans we've been growing these beans for the past few months now and
they're producing very well in July as you can see here the harvest looks
pretty good
these beans are eaten with the pods whole and it is absolutely delicious
we also planted a lot of bush beans in five gallon containers and it was a
pretty good option
we were able to harvest a lot of bush beans from these containers for about a
month or maybe a bit more but they do stop producing after some time because
they are Bush type of beans unlike beans that are vining beans which
produce for a much longer time but for the space that they use this is a very
good option you can plant about three plants in every five gallon container
and that will produce a lot of beans for you
now let's look at Asparagus beans we posted a video on this last week we
showed you how to grow those beans and we were able to harvest a lot of
asparagus beans through the month of july these beings produce a lot of these long
beans also called yard long beans and we were able to get a great harvest from
this container of asparagus beans
we also harvested a lot of blueberries
we have a small blueberry bush growing in a container
this is the sharp blue variety of blueberry
which produces a small to medium blueberries and for the most part our
blueberries are quite small but they are very sweet and they're absolutely
delicious and a month of July they produce a lot of blueberries that can be harvested
here you can see the harvest they are fresh delicious and very sweet
although summer is not the best season for growing carrots
we did plant this atomic red variety of carrot in this whiskey barrel container
and in the month of July they had matured enough to be harvested
so we went ahead and harvested all the carrots from this whiskey barrel
container and as you can see here the atomic red carrots look very beautiful
and they're very delicious as well
we also had some glass gem corn that we were growing in a container a five
gallon container and by just moving the husk a little bit you can see whether
or not the corn is ready and this is how it looks like we harvested a lot of
eggplants as well
this is the purple eggplant variety and we harvested a lot of eggplants not only
from the raised beds
this is the one that's going in the raised bed as you can see here lots of fruits
I had to hand pollinate almost every flower that you see that's converted to
fruit and once you hand pollinate your eggplants you can expect to get a very
good harvest
so i highly recommend that you do that and you can keep harvesting them so that
they produce more and more eggplants and make sure you're fertilizing very well
throughout the growing season
make sure you give your plants a lot of epsom salt so that they produce really
good quality eggplants now grapes is the most exciting fruit we grew in our
garden this year and after two years
finally we got grapes and as you can see here beautiful-looking grapes
this is the Thompson seedless variety of grapes and initially when we harvest the
grapes they were a little green and tangy to taste but as the season
progressed we got a lot more sunlight the grave started turning yellow
and here you can see these one of the sweetest grapes that we harvested during
the mid season and finally towards the end of july the grapes started turning a
little bit red reddish yellow and as you can see here at this is the type of
grapes we harvested and these were the sweetest grapes
I mean the Sun was shining and the grapes are turning into raisins they
were drying on the plant and as you can see here these great looking grapes
amazing taste and very sweet grapes so i highly recommend that you grow this
grape variety
this year we had a better gourd plants growing in containers
as you can see here it was growing pretty well for a small container medium sized
container you can say
and these are the bitter gourd fruits that we're going to be harvesting now
and you can harvest these throughout the summer season they produce a lot of
these gourds and they're very easy to grow in your home garden in the month of
july we also harvested a lot of okra we were growing okra the giant variety in this
whiskey barrel container and then we also had some growing in the ground
now this is the one that we were growing in our whiskey barrel container
this is the nombo giant variety and we harvested a lot of okra from this
container and as you can see here
very nice looking pods quite long compared to the regular okra and very
good tasting as well
so if you haven't tried growing this okra variety do try growing it and we
also grew okra in our raised beds
this is the dark green variety of okra much more soft and tender compared to
the giant okra variety and also tastes very nice
so this is the other variety that we grew and we eat a lot of okra
so all this okra proved to be very helpful
and we harvested our red
onion sets that we planted in december and it took about six to seven months
for this onion plant to grow and as you can see here they are pretty large heads
and at this stage they can be harvested and dried now I did notice that i
overwatered some of these onions and that's what i posted in my other video
as well but anyway great-looking harvest and these are our poblano peppers these
papers grew very well in this 5 gallon container and we were able to harvest a
lot of these peppers
now once again poblano peppers are one of my favorite pepper varieties
because they have the best balance of heat and taste and these are the dragon
cayenne pepper
this is a hot pepper variety that I'm going for the first time this year and
i'm very happy with the taste and the heat of this pepper
it's actually a very hot pepper
and we also harvested our salad Rose radish
now summer is not the optimum time to grow radish but this radish variety the
salad rose grew very well during july and we were able to harvest this as you
can see here large radish and we tried to grow this radish under partial shade so
that it doesn't get scorched from the heat of the Sun and it did pretty well
as you can see here the harvest looks pretty good
and this is a filler vegetable to grow if you have containers
this is a great vegetable to grow in your garden and it's an easy and quick harvest
strawberries...
summer is not complete without a mega strawberry harvest so we harvested this
Chandler variety as you can see here from this container we were able to get
a lot of strawberries in july july was probably the month we harvested the most
strawberries from our garden including this other variety the Ozark beauty
we were able to harvest a lot of strawberries of all varieties during the
month of july and hand-picked strawberries from your garden are so delicious
they're always very sweet just wait for the right time to harvest them and
they're absolutely delicious as well
summer vegetables are not complete without tomatoes and July was the month
where we harvested the most number of tomatoes
the ones that you can see here are the honey gold variety of tomatoes that we
are harvesting and this plant produced a lot of tomatoes as you can see here
beautiful looking tomatoes
this is the rutgers tomato again
nice-looking tomatoes and it's an heirloom variety that produces very good
tasting tomatoes
so all in all we got great tomatoes including this cherry tomato that you
see here there's a beefsteak tomato
and a lot of other tomatoes that we grew this season
you can see here beautiful-looking tomatoes
now let's take a look at what's growing in our California garden
we have cucumbers growing that will produce very soon
we have a lot of fruit trees that are producing fruits now
so this is the white Arabian guava and if you have watched our previous videos
you might have realized that this is a great tasting variety of guava and
during this season it is producing a lot of guavas small guavas that will ripen
into a good-tasting throat our pomegranates are also growing very well
this year we had some chill hours
due to which the plant produced a lot of pomegranates
as you can see here and as the season gets cooler the pomegranates will start
maturing and these will be ready to harvest by around and of
september-october and november so this is the wonderful variety of pomegranate
and it's going pretty well
this is our bearss lime tree or the Persian limes and they're growing pretty
well we are getting a lot of fruits as you can see here this plant is quite
loaded with fruits
this is a very delicious tasting lime and it's very easy to grow as well
our moringa got trees have started flowering again and we just hope that
some of these flowers get converted into fruits
the moringa pods are very delicious to eat
and we're just hoping that we get some pods just like we did last year
our dancy tangerine tree is now quite large and it did produce a lot of
tangerines last year but what we are seeing here is that this year also we
are getting a lot of tangerines
this is the Mexican white guava plant and it's loaded with guavas as usual as
it does every year we get a lot of guavas from this plant and for the size
of this plant this plant is quite loaded and it will be loaded with heavy fruits
by around October
now let's look at what are the things to do in your garden compost tea
make sure that you're brewing your compost tea with fish emulsion and seaweed and
feed it to all your plants especially your container plants which need a lot
of nutrients and take care of your corn plant if you're growing corn plants you need to
make sure its pest free and i will quickly tell you how to do that
you just need some neem oil that you will mix with water and a small sprayer
like this this is one of the most easy sprayers to use and what you
basically do is take one tablespoon of neem oil and mix it with water
and once done you need to charge up your sprayer by using the hand pump that's provided
what this does is it builds up pressure so that your sprayer start spraying and
then you go to your corn silks
make sure the corn silks are completely drenched with this neem oil solution and
if you remember our aloe vera plant from last month's video it has now grown
quite big and it needs transplanting so the transplanting this into this small
container and if needed we will transplant it into a larger container
and don't forget to make sure that you're making your compost every month
as you can see here we are collecting our guava leaves if you have a little
helpers in your house they love doing this
collect all your leaves and then put them into a compost bin
make sure you always compositing
so there we have it folks that was our video on the
monthly gardening series for july
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