- Today,
(drill buzzing)
we're planting some blueberries.
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First off, let's take a little quick moment
to admire the double dragon fruit bloom right here.
This is Sugar Dragon.
They both bloomed, both pollinated.
There's actually one forming right over there.
But today, we are redoing, call it Berry Alley, I suppose.
(laughing)
- Yeah
- Last year, I would say we created a pretty good mix
for the blueberries.
- We thought so.
- But the worms just went crazy on it.
We mixed in that Micro Bark in about 10% of the mix
and it just didn't perform as well as we thought it would.
- It was almost entirely worms.
Like yeah, no bark, just worms.
- All the way down.
Even within a couple months, it was half the size
which is way abnormal means
that they're consuming a lot of that organic matter.
So we are going to do a little bit of a change here
and we're going with acid planting mix from G&B Organics.
And we're doing the Fox Farm strawberry fields
which is an amazing bag.
I mean, it's just like, look at these.
- The art is amazing.
- That's you that's me. You know?
So you go in with one of those, that's just a potting mix.
I'm going in with a G and B acid lover.
So this is just 50-50.
And then we wanna hit it with a little Berry tone, right?
- Let's do it.
- We'll just do two bags at a time.
In we go a little shake
- Little bit of acid.
- Maybe half of that;that's just normal compost that we got.
- Straight compost.
- Straight compost. And it's time to mix.
Did I get you?
- No. This guy is absolutely loaded in blueberries.
- Actually, you know, we should thin that out a little bit,
if you know what I'm saying.
- No
- Honestly, you should.
- They're ready to boost.
- If they're ready to eat,
we obviously should thin them.
- These are like a very classic blueberry flavor to me.
- Very dense in flavor.
- Yeah. Does it say which one it is?
- Oh, Bountiful Blue.
- Bountiful Blue.
- It's definitely bountiful.
- So this one's asking for three foot by three foot
which means this container should be perfect for it.
- Perfect.
- If you guys are wondering where we got the pots from,
it's a very common question.
We got them from a place called Planter Paradise here
in San Diego.
For blueberries you want at least an 18 inch diameter pot
so across the top.
- You wanna hit that or looks pretty decent.
- It looks okay. I think just a little bit.
- You think just this little corner? There we go.
- Actually. You know what? It's quite rooty.
- Yeah. It doesn't look like it, but once you touch it,
you realize that you're not touching soil,
it's just straight root.
- I'm gonna go for further full scrape methodology here
- All right.
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- All right, on to the next one.
Bountiful Blue Blueberry.
- Huh? They look different.
- Well, this one's bountiful delight.
- Oh, okay, gotcha
- This one's bountiful blue.
- I was like, Hmm.
- Naming wise I think
they could've been a little more creative
- The leaves definitely look different.
- I mean it's way different.
- And the size of the Berry itself is much bigger.
- Oh, I find that I like the bigger ones more.
- I mean, look at the size of these berries.
- Let me get a little taste test there.
- Yeah. Grab a little taste on (inaudible).
- I like that better. It's more acidic.
- Yeah. Actually I like that better.
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- This one's O'Neil
which is a classic Southern high Bush, right?
- Yep.
- Well, there's one berry on there.
Do you wanna do the honors, little taste test?
- Oh, is there? Oh boy.
It's actually a hybrid between these two.
- Interesting.
- It's bigger in size, slightly tangier
but more the dense blueberry.
- And the other one is Emerald
- Emerald. Oh yeah. There was jewel.
And there was Emerald from last season.
- That's right.
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- All right. Now what we have to do is figure
out where these are actually going along this alley here.
Okay. We figured out where these are gonna go.
We're just gonna match them pot to pot
on these dragon fruit here
starting at the back and going forward.
- Perfect.
- But now these are now these are pretty heavy.
- Yeah.
- Let's move these bad boys.
- There we go. A nice lift technique there.
- Thank you. A little grip.
Probably something like that's fine for now.
- Okay.
- Then you kind of can walk through, but again
these dragon fruit are gonna get crazy
and we'll have to do some modifications here.
So eventually what we're gonna do is irrigate this space
with these two risers, we can pull up, run a main line
pop in, do some kind of soaker hose or drip hose.
And then this berry zone, which is why we're all sort
of grouping these containerized fruits in the same area.
- Right.
- They're on the same zone.
- Makes sense.
- Okay. Jacques got a little feast.
Blueberries aren't the only be we're planning today though.
We're gonna go in the back and finally put in some in ground
raspberries and blackberries.
Which is almost a sacrilege to you,
cause you just took out your in ground raspberries.
- Yeah.
- But I think we're putting them
in an area where we'll be able to manage it.
- Yeah. The area I put them in was just not ideal.
- Yeah. So onto the back.
We're here in the back. As you can see,
we've already laid out the blackberries and the raspberries.
There's all sorts of different varieties.
We won't run through every single one.
- That's a lot.
- But yeah, I think it's actually seven varieties
and there's nine or 10 total.
So only a couple repeats here.
The important thing is that as far as we can tell
they're all floricane varieties
and I think all are thornless.
- Yeah. That's the more important one.
- That's the more important one.
So floricane meaning
that it's fruiting off of second year canes.
So the first canes that come up, you can't prune them away.
You gotta let them be, play a season out.
And then they'll fruit on that second year.
Then, of course, you can cut that floricane away
and the cycle repeats itself.
So what we've done is we have the five blackberries here
the five raspberries here.
Spaced two feet apart on this back wall.
We thought we were gonna do grapes here.
But look, you plant what you have.
- Totally.
- This makes a lot of sense.
And what we've done is basically
they're perfectly spaced out.
Jacques got his favorite tool, the mattock.
There's a little leveling that we want to do,
before we start digging our holes out.
So we're just gonna chunk the soil up, rake it flat,
and then we'll get into the planting.
- Let's do it. (yelling)
- How satisfied are you right now?
- I'm very satisfied.
- Yeah.
- I don't know why I like the mattock so much.
Just makes me feel like I'm I know I'm doing something here.
- Yeah. If you're wondering about amendment
we actually did apply a really heavy dose
of compost last season to this and we also cover crop this.
- Oh, that's right. I forgot about that.
- Right, so
- Top and drop.
- This is, this is gonna be good enough,
I think, to do a minimal amendment here. When we plant in
There's a video game called Stardew Valley,
that you have energy and you lose your energy
every watering, every ax,
- Oh right.
- every chop, you don't have that problem.
- Not when it comes to the mattock.
- He actually gains energy every mattock he does.
- That's like a game I never tried playing,
that I'm surprised I haven't
- For the sake of epic gardening, don't start
because you will get addicted.
It's such a fun game.
So to make our lives a little more easy
and a little more fun.
We did bring out probably the correct use case
for this for once in our lives, the power planter.
So what we're gonna do is,
you do want enough space in theory,
to come around the back
and do some picking and some cleaning.
So here's my body.
I'm gonna kind of bias a little bit to here.
If I can walk down about here and the canes are right here.
It's probably fine.
- Right.
- So I'm gonna plant right here.
- That seems about right.
- Right about. Cause if you think of the pathway,
- Yeah, totally.
- We've got enough buffer here and enough buffer here
with a pathway that we should be fine.
- Cool.
- Let's give this a shot.
- Nice.
- I mean, look at that hole.
- You know what's nice.
- That's that gives you a good head start, right?
- Yeah. And it's actually not bone drive.
- No.
- So that's great.
- That's great. Okay. Here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna come down and power plant along the lines here.
- Okay.
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- While Jacques is widening holes
I'm gonna do some test fitting here.
Undo this here.
We're not putting in our Blackberry trellis yet.
That'll be a separate video on the Epic Gardening Channel.
Ooh. Almost lost it there.
I'm gonna throw some Berry-tone in the soil.
Just a handful.
I'm not like really trying to program this out.
Just do something like that.
Give it a little head start.
So this is a very classic Southern California Blackberry.
This is triple crown.
We have two of these.
- Oh yeah.
- This is a producer. All right.
What do I got going in here?
This is red, raspberry red Baba Berry Primo cane.
So we'll have hopefully a little fruit this year then.
- That'd be pretty sweet.
I think that's the one that creates large berries.
- Yeah. The one and a half inchers.
- That's pretty huge.
- Baba Berry. I gotta say I'm not a fan of the name.
Amber Fall Gold, sweet large conical fruit
golden or soft yellow in color.
We got some golden berries, baby.
- That'll be exciting.
- I didn't know that we picked those up.
The Berry bed is in
and I have to say pulled a little mulch over.
It looks, it looks really good.
- Really good.
- But while we're here, we are just gonna put on.
We're gonna extend out
from the tomato irrigation we recently did.
They should probably be watered
I would say roughly on the same schedule
it's better to have it than to not.
The only thing left to do now is
just turn the irrigation on.
And at some point in time, refresh ourselves
on some mulch, which is looking a little sparse
and we'll fill in the backside.
But pretty soon guys, we're gonna have at least some fruit
on the Primo canes, maybe a lot more next season
on the flora canes and stay tuned on the main channel.
We will be building a full raspberry Blackberry trellis.
So until next time, good luck
in the garden and keep on growing.