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Oh, Kaye...
I didn't realize that was a twin. So you see the goji berries that we
transplanted to here, this one is doing pretty well because it's finding the Sun
and there are a number of buds here, but this one,
it's not doing well, and obviously it's because it's not catching that Morning
Sun, because this eggplant is in a growth phase.
I just stuck some seeds in here, I don't even remember what they were, in
any open spot and they're really responding to the heatwave. Of course the
okra loves the heat. And I'm getting buds.
My two blueberry plants are pretty much finished, got just a few little berries
left. The sweet grass that we repotted is doing fantastically. Cardamom is exploding.
This would fill up this whole pot, and I think it's time that I researched online
how I'm supposed to take care of it. This is a some kind of a squash that I stuck
one seed in the side and it's taking off. And the flowers that we repotted, they
didn't get enough water while I was gone but they seem to be recovering.
This is phyla. This is a California native and the bees love the flowers, but
you have to aggressively keep it under control. It's a wonderful ground cover. It
only gets about six or eight inches tall and it doesn't require much water and
you can mow it so that it's like grass, but then of course it cuts the flowers
off. Cosmos never fails to delight, and the zinnias have just been fantastic. I
got these seeds from Open Circle Seeds in GMO-free Mendocino County. She's a
very small seed seller. Check her out. These two Tomatoes were planted at the
same time and this one's scrawny, but you know, same thing here, a lot of leaves
looking like this. This has collapsed, oh dear.
I've got to get that supported. This sunflower I cut has the tell-tale signs
of mildew, and I hope I'm wrong. In my last video, I showed you these four
o'clocks that are about six feet tall and they exploded with blooms while I was
gone. Now, this is just one plant, so you can imagine if you had a whole field of
these, and I saw a whole field of cornflower in blue, in Germany. The princess
flower has come back from the brink of death. This is just one of at least a
dozen of the comfrey roots that Old Alabama Gardener sent me. And look how
beautiful the silver is, that's California fuchsia, and it's just starting to bloom
and that is going to be stunning. This whole Parkway was covered in aster,
fuchsia and California goldenrod, which was why the princess tree was desperate
for water. They all propagate by rhizome and they're wonderful and you plant them
together and you have to see who fights it out and survives, because they're very
very aggressive growers, and you want to try to contain plants that grow by
rhizome because they will continue to spread out. And this is another one of
the comfrey plants that's done well.
So this is the condition of the zinnias that we planted a couple of weeks ago.
And you can see all of that coriander needs to be harvested, this way, it's going
that way, that way...
Tomatoes are beautiful and I expect them to taste good, but I don't know how many
there will be since there are not a lot of leaves on this vine. Okay, I took most
of the leaves off of this tomato plant and I'm gonna spray it with aspirin and
water.
I am convinced the lemon verbena is going to take over my garden. Look how it
has completely shaded the red crimson clover that I planted for ground cover
in my garlic bed. And I just wanted to squeeze through here
and show you the progress on the three celery plants. The one in the middle looks
the best,
but they're all growing. And this is the tomato I did not prune. it's a cherry
tomato, obviously, and there are a lot of cherry tomatoes growing, but there are
hardly any leaves left. This is the Brown Turkey Fig. It's got a lot of figs on it.
It goes way over here, and the African blue basil is completely growing around
it. Now this belongs to the brown turkey Fig, this branch, but everything behind
this is the desert fig.
This is a look at my Back 40 raised bed with eight tomato plants in ground
and one in a pot and only one or two plants are doing really well. I came out
this morning at 6:30 to do one little piece of gardening and it is now 10:58.
I'm going to have a lot of tomatoes, but if the plants were healthier, I could
keep getting tomatoes throughout the summer. It's only July the tenth. So
basically what I have shown you is the updates on recent developments. I have a
video called June Developments and I think that this would be considered the
July developments of the June developments, haha. Thanks so much for watching.
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