In my last video, you heard how Las Vegas gardener and Late Bloomer fan, Patti
Hayden gets two crops of tomatoes per season, but with my limited Sun. I've got
one chance to get it right. Today we're going to inoculate these tomatoes with
mycorrhizae and a whole lot more on this Thursday workday, so stay with me. I
did supervise the planting in the ground of tomatoes in the front yard, but these
potted tomatoes I was not here for, and I don't know what went into the planting
hole. I'm already noticing some mildew and possibly some blight on these
Tomatoes, and I want to inoculate them today with MycoGrow and give them a
little bit more protection help the mycelium start to grow in the web in the
roots and help fight off disease. These were supposed to be potted up into one
gallons when I wasn't here, and they got potted up to three and five gallons, so
some of these are going to have to be potted up, even though they are quite
established. This is my summer growing wall, and it
gets Sun May, June, and July, and in August, it starts dropping behind the house. So
that's why I've got one chance to get Tomatoes out of these plants. Now a three
gallon pot, as you will see, it's just not big enough to support a full-grown
tomato plant, so these will have to be potted up. My plan had been from the one
gallons to select about ten great plants and give the rest away.
But now, I've wound up with 19 plants. They're a little too big to give away.
The problem is how do you support all these Tomatoes? I'm not going to go buy
15 more tomato cages. That's not going to happen, so I'm going to have to make some
hard choices about what to keep, because they can't all be supported against this
wall, and of course my front yard is full.
99 cents. Wow!
Keep going with the spray? Yes, yes, please.
I don't have room for the tomatoes, so I certainly don't have room for them to
split, so I'm gonna have to cut these off.
Oh, dear. Now this is gone behind which is good, except that I need to move it.
You have to spray with Neem and a spinosad early before the bees are
really active, but, then when you're moving your plants around, then you're
getting Neem all over yourself. It happens all the time, but I just tell
myself, neem is an extract from a natural plant, so I'm not going to worry about it.
Whatever I do today is not permanent because they've got to be potted up, the
ones that are doing well by next week.
This plant split a few times and if I can get it up against the wall that's
not a problem.
But, you know, just in doing that, I knocked off a bloom.
And you see I have squash plants that haven't even been planted. These are all
volunteers. You know I can tell the soils in these are very different from pot to
pot because some pots are lighter and some are heavy as lead, so this is what
happens when you're not supervising.
I was just deadheading the perpetual spinach, and I found this one branch that
was covered with aphid nymphs and a ladybug doing its job.
The next project is we're going to clean out this garlic bed that got absolutely
run over by aphids. We had a lot of, beneficial insects ate a lot of these.
Some of them got killed by Neem and bug spray but this whole thing is going to
get cleaned out.
I think those beans have to come out too. Everything is compromised. Oh yeah, yeah,
that looks bad. Thank you. Oh. look at that. Just covered. Okay. while Eric is cleaning
out that garlic bed. I just wanted to give a quick shout out to one of my fans
who have never met. who showed up at my next to last performance on Saturday of
my play. and we got to meet in person and she brought me this lovely gift. Now. is
this not perfect. not only for me. but any gardener? Hands in the dirt, Head in the
Sun, Heart in the garden. Thank You. Holly and since you're only in Rancho
Cucamonga. you really have to come and visit me and see the Late Bloomer garden
in person. Oh, we have our ladybug, right. We have so
many ladybugs today.
Got a little bit of something on there.
Got a little bit there, a little bit. I believe this was the garlic that I
planted in October that Bob in North Dakota sent me. That should have been
thinned out. Root, root, big root. Yeah, big roots, no bulb. One of my subscribers
recently commented on one of my videos and said that garlic does not like
competition, and you know how I planted densely. and over planted. and well I
guess that's true. because I have had two major fails on garlic in the last week.
So there's a couple of little ones here that could be used, but nothing with a
big bulb, but I haven't given up. There's more garlic out there.
Okay, we're just fixing up my special blend of amendments. Work it in the top two
inches.
This 1-pound pack goes a long way. One ounce or two tablespoons per 12 gallons
of water and you use between 6 and 12 ounces per plant around the dripline. So
what you want to do is use filtered water if at all possible, because
chlorinated water can kill healthy microbes in the soil.
Two gallons, four gallons. Right. So, because
I'm doing this in 6 gallon batches, I'm just using one tablespoon. Okay.
That's how much we use on each plant.
Not on the leaves. Like that.
Well, it is 4:08 and Eric just pulled out about six minutes ago,
and there were so many interruptions today that it kind of sapped me of the
energy to film, and we got quite a bit done, but it's not all on camera. I did
have Eric take out the rest of the garlic except for a few scattered bulbs
in various pots, which looks not half bad. There's some good ones in here and this
is the garlic that was sent to me by BJ court in Louisiana, and I want to thank
you again BJ for entrusting me with your cloves. That 35 gallon garbage can full
of borage liquid, whoah, did that smell bad. And he strained all that out and poured
it on my fig trees and my princess flower and some of my trees that I never
ever fertilize. I know a lot of you really love this Thursday workday
series but it's not attracting enough attention and so I'm considering how.
what to do. I would love your feedback. I have a solid two thousand people that
watch these Thursday workday videos, but that number needs to be 20,000 to be
sustainable, so I have to think long and hard about how I'm going to approach
content, my content going forward, and what I feel that will attract more
subscribers and more views. So, if you have any thoughts on that please share
them with me. One more fan shout out and that goes out to Sheri Fisher at Sher2Organic
on Facebook. Now Sheri is, we became fast friends, BFFs, when I visited
her in person in Pittsburgh on my northeast tour in 2016. I shot a couple
of videos with her one of her fantastic greenhouse
and hilltop garden and the other out at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, so please
check those out the link is right above. She texted me on Saturday morning and
told me that she had fallen going up the stairs to the front of her house and
incurred the same injury on her right hand, right arm as I did. I just couldn't
believe it, so I would love for all of my fans to go over to her Facebook page and
give her some love, if you're on Facebook.
Thanks so much for your support, please give me a like on the video, and share it
with your friends, and I'll see you in the next one.