welcome to the California garden in the
month of november this is the month to
prepare your garden for the winter
season and also complete a lot of summer
and fall harvest today's monthly
episode will complete the 12-month
gardening series for growing plants in
California so if you haven't already
checked out all our other monthly videos
this is a good time to check them out in
today's video we'll take a garden tour
will look at what's growing in the
California garden this month we're
looking at some harvest and finally some
things to do in your garden this month
so let's begin with the garden tour in
our first bed we have sowed some radish
seed as you can see here that sprouted
into some seedlings followed by some
spinach seedlings and these are the
onions that we planted a couple months
ago and they've been growing pretty well
so far and this is a good time to start
onions if you haven't already started
them
and moving on to our next bed we have
the Gypsy variety of broccoli growing
here and this is a new broccoli variety
that I'm trying out and we'll see how it
goes
we also have some cabbages these are
45-day cabbages on the side bed
and we also have some kale that's
growing in the corner
now moving on to our next bad these are
sweet potatoes that are growing in this
bed
and I've not been paying too much attention
to this bed I just let these plants grow
for some more time when the die I'll take
them out
we also have a lot of radish plants that are
growing in this whiskey barrel container
and moving on to the other beds we have
some more onions and cabbage and finally
our eggplants I'm planning to overwinter
these eggplants this year and see how it
goes if they're doing very bad i might
remove them but for now they're doing
pretty good
they are producing flowers and they're
producing some fruits as well
now let's look at what's growing in the
garden we have radish growing it's a
great cool season crop to grow this time
of the year and this is the Japanese
radish and it's growing very well
then we have the gem avocado tree as you
all know this is our avocado tree which
have been growing for many years now and
it's producing a lot of avocados the
avocado harvest season is from November
through february and will be harvesting
some avocados this month
we also have our last tomato plant
growing this is a determinate tomato
variety that's growing in a container
and it's still producing some fruits but
other than this we do not have any more
tomato plants growing this is the final
one
i'm planning to overwinter this
dragon cayenne pepper plant which is growing
very well in this container and then we
have our naval oranges the Washington
navel orange tree has grown very well
this year it did not produce a lot of
fruit but I'm hoping that as time goes
by this plant will produce more and more
fruit
however we did get fruit this year and you
can see some fruits on the tree right
now can look at this one right here it's
slightly green and once these fruits
turn yellow
they're ready for harvest and they taste
extremely sweet a very nice orange
variety to grow in your home garden
now let's look at the Dancy tangerine
tree that's growing this is one of my
favorite tangerines great taste very
sweet tangerines not seedless though but
it's a classic tangerine variety that
grows very well in your home garden and
it's producing a lot of fruit as you can
see here
and this will produce fruit that will be
ready for harvesting probably by next
month
we have the bearss or the Persian lime
tree that's growing and that produces
fruit around the year and this month is
no exception
the mexican guava tree is also growing very
well and it's producing a lot of guavas
as you can see here it's loaded with
guavas
and now let's look at some of the
harvest that we made this month avocados
our GEM avocado had produced some avocados
now this wasn't a very great year for
avocados the number of avocados produced
were less but avocados that we harvested
were of great quality as you can see here
and they were quite big so let me cut
open one avocado and show you how good
this avocado variety is and you can see
here this is a nice fleshy avocado and a
lot of pulp and for those of you who
could not find this avocado variety
the GEM vocado, try looking for the
Gwen variety which is very similar but
if you don't find it you can get the
Haas avocado variety which is also
very delicious tasting avocado
as you can see here this avocado
produces a lot of flesh, a lot of pulp and
the seed is still large but it's not as
larg as some of the other avocado varieties
and which is why i recommend this
avocado or the Gwen avocado
both of which can be a dwarf tree you
can buy them as a dwarf three and grow
them in your home garden
we also harvested our navel oranges this
month the Washington navel orange it's a
great orange variety very delicious as i
mentioned and we were able to harvest a
few oranges this year now this plant
wasn't like loaded with oranges but I'm
hoping that the orange production will
increase as the plant grows we also have
harvested our last of the Amaranth plants
as you can see here they were growing in
this bed and by the time its winter you
need to harvest your amaranth and make
space for the other plants so the
harvesting our amaranth plants here we
got a lot of leaves as well as a lot of
seeds from these amaranth plants
and it's a great vegetable to grow in
your garden if you haven't grown amaranth
you should try it out
we also harvested a lot of curry leaves
as you can see here I have cut the tops
of the plant and this is the right way
to harvest your curry leaf plants or
curry leaves so that the plant grows in
a much better way you can see a lot of
seeds here these are the seeds that will
form new curry leaf plants
and eggplants we harvested a lot of
eggplants through november as well now I
was not really hoping to get any
eggplants in November but i did harvest
a lot of eggplants as you can see here
this is the purple variety that was
growing in a container and we had the
same variety not only growing in
containers but also the raised beds this
is another harvest from a container as you
can see here beautiful looking eggplant
and this is also growing in the raised
bed where we got a lot more harvest and
even in November you can see that the
plants are not only dying so we're
still harvesting these eggplant and this
the reason why I'm trying to overwinter
this eggplant variety
it's just a great eggplant variety all
around
and also the other variety of eggplant
which is the shooting stars is an
amazing eggplant variety by the way it
looks good and it tastes very good as
well so i highly recommend this eggplant
variety
now coming to gourds we harvested our
final bottle gourd as you can see a
beautiful-looking bottle gourd and by
the time it's winter, it's the end of
the season for gourds and here's another
Ridge gourd that we are harvesting and
after this harvest we removed all our
gourd plants
hyacinth beans probably took the crown when
it came to harvest our hyacinth beans that
was growing along the side wall produced
a lot of beans and it's great quality
hyacinth beans as you can see here
absolutely delicious and you can see how
much of a harvest we got so this is the
perfect time to harvest the hyacinth
beans
it's a cool season crop by the way
unlike the regular beans and it's an
amazing tasting bean variety
moving on to Kohlrabi which is
actually a fall crop we planted this
about two months ago and as you can see
here it produced decently sized kohlrabi
heads and we're harvesting them now
as you can see here the bulbs are pretty
well formed here you can remove the side
leaves which are also edible by the way
and we're going to use the bulb which is
the best part of the kohlrabi plant and
if you haven't tried eating kohlrabi do
give it a shot
I'm sure you'll like it it's great when
eaten raw
I think the best part about kohlrabi is
that it tastes amazing when eaten raw
moringa...we did get some more moringa pods towards
the end of the season and as you can see
here we are harvesting some moringa
pods and the plant remained fairly green
and fairly healthy during this month
which is kind of surprising because they
usually tend to become yellow in the
cooler season but we were able to
harvest a lot of pods and as you can
see here beautiful-looking moringa pods
that we harvested from this plant
we had some taro root plants here
growing in this container and this
container actually worked very well for
taro roots as you'll soon see and it's
a great alternative potatoes if you are
planning to grow them in your home
garden they taste a lot nuttier and a
lot more delicious and I've been growing
taro root for many years now we just boil
and stir fry them with some spices and
it tastes amazing you can pretty much
use taro root as you use potatoes
for most of your dishes and harvesting
this from the small container and you'll
see that even in this small container
this taro root produced a lot of fruit or
tubers and you here you can see the
whole harvest lot of taro root
harvested from this small container
it took about four months for them to
produce the tubers and moving on to our
tomato harvest this was the final tomato
harvest for this month from my raised
beds and after we harvested these
tomatoes we removed all our tomato
plants because they are yellowing they
were dying and we had to make space for
the other plants but these are the
cherry tomatoes and by November it's the
end of the season for tomatoes for the
most of the varieties and you can see
here beautiful-looking tomatoes that we
harvested
now coming to the things to do in your
garden this month the first thing you
need to do is clean up all your
vegetables from the summer and the fall
make sure you remove them and then
prepare your beds you may want to add
more compost at this time should also
clean up and remove all vegetables that
are at the end of their season for
example gourds this is our bitter gourd
plant by the way which produced a lot of
bitter gourds but no fruit in the month
of november so we're removing this plant
just cleaning this place up and we will
use this container for some other winter
vegetable
the next thing to do is to plant some
winter vegetables now
garlic is a great vegetable that you can
plant now in the winter season it will
grow through spring
and i'm using a whiskey barrel
container here i'm going to add some
organic fertilizer mixing some organic
fertilizer here with the soil
and this will prepare a nice mix to
plant the garlic bulbs
and remember that you do not need to buy
garlic from the gardening stores i
bought this garlic from a local grocery
store and these cloves should sprout
and germinate into garlic seedlings
you just lay the cloves as you see
here spaced out about four to six inches
and this is a great medium to grow
garlic by the way
you can grow a lot of garlic in this
small whiskey barrel container and in
just a few days you can see the garlic
has come up and also onions are a great
plant to grow in the winter season
if you haven't started onions already you need to start
them as soon as you can and we're going
to be thinning our onion seedlings here if
you remember from our last month's video
we sowed a lot of seeds and what we're
trying to do here is remove these
seedlings and thin them out so that
they grow more evenly all you do is take
your seedlings and then plant them
spaced far apart they should be at least
four to six inches apart so that they
grow big bulbs and we're also going to be
planting some winter vegetables like
radish we're trying this new radish
variety and we're going this in our
vertical gardening space we're just going to
be sowing a few seeds here and this
vertical gardening space saves you a lot
of space by growing vertically you just
place these pots or these containers
vertically in shelves cabbag is another
winter vegetable that you need to plant
if you haven't already planted them
and this cabbage variety that I'm
growing is called the 45 day cabbage
it's an early maturing cabbage variety
and I haven't really tried this cabbage
variety out so i'll be trying it out and
seeing how this goes and if it's
successful you can even try it out
growing in your garden and i'm going to
space these cabbage plants far apart
because although they look small now they
ae going to be producing a lot of big leaves
as they grow and now coming to growing peas
we are growing this pea variety here these
are shelling type peas and we're using a
standard tomato trellis to grow this pea
variety, we will be planting our seeds in
this whiskey barrel container and it
should grow vertically from here
and as you saw in the garden tour
section in the beginning of the video we
planted some more onions in this bed
along with some cabbages so all-in-all
November is the month to start all your
winter vegetables if you haven't already
started them and they should grow very
well during the winter months and try to
over-winter some of your vegetables and
see if you can especially peppers and
eggplant that way you can extend your
growing season by quite a lot of days
and broccoli is another winter vegetable
that you must grow in your garden if you
like eating broccoli like me i just love
broccoli so we do grow broccoli every
year as you can see here we are
transplanting the seedlings that we
planted about a month ago
and this time I'm trying to plant 16
seedlings in this one raised bed i
planted about 9 last year but I'm
going to step it up a little bit and see
if I can grow 16 and one bed and it's
also the time to save your seeds when
most of your summer vegetables die you
need to harvest them and save the seeds
so you can save your seeds for okra for
amaranth and all your other vegetables so
there we have it folks that was our
episode on the California garden for the
month of november if you like this video
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