hello friends welcome to the California Garden in the beautiful city of Irvine
in Southern California in today's episode we will take a garden tour we
look at what's growing in the California garden this month we look at some
harvests we made and we look at some things to do this month and then we'll
look at some cool gardening products for you so let's take a tour of the garden
in the first bed we have the small bulbing kind onions and these are grown
for their greens so we will be harvesting and using these greens as
needed the bitter gourd plant has grown pretty large and it has been one of our
best producing plants this season and it has produced a lot of bitter gourds this
bed had the cluster beans growing and now it's time for this bed to be
prepared for some winter vegetables next to that we have the hyacinth beans we
saw that in the previous month video there were small plants and now they're
producing a lot of highs and beans as you can see here right next to the
hyacinth bean we have the okra plant the okra plants
have grown very well in these hot temperatures we've had very hot days
this September and now of course it's cool towards the end of September but we
had a relatively hot month this September so the okra plants grew really
well and produced a lot of okra and right next to that we had the summer
vegetables growing we cleared this bed we now planted cilantro at the back and
we're gonna be planting some brassicas in this bed and maybe some garlic for
the cool season right next to that bed we have some more okra and these okras
had also grown very well and as you can see here are still producing some okras
they will be producing a little bit maybe for this month but I might plan to
remove these plants this month and as you can see here the chilies also have
slowed down production now that we are entering the cooler season the tomatoes
grew very well I think it was a good idea to plant them in July, June is
actually better for the second crop and as you can see here the celebrity tomato
is loaded with tomatoes right now and the inter planted basil as well has
grown very well the other two tomato varieties did produce tomatoes and we'll
look at that in the harvest section of the video it's again slow down a little
bit but we'll see how it goes this month and
this concludes the tour of the raised beds and now let's look at the
containers we have the pineapple plant growing as usual the pubescens pepper
did produce the peppers but I'm not very happy with what was produced so I
might just remove this plant and plant something else The Painted Hill corn is
growing very well and hopefully I'll get to harvest some corn next month as you
can see they are producing some good ears this
is the whiskey barrel container where I planted some radish some white radishes
and we'll see how that goes this is the Ivy gourd plant that I discussed in my
previous video growing pretty well the fruit production has slowed down so it
will still produce some flowers but not as abundantly as it did last month in
the summer season you can still see a few fruits here that are growing and
doing well and this is the Bush hyacinth bean once again growing in the whiskey
barrel container looks like it towards the end of its production so we'll see
what to do with this on the back containers we have the lemongrass the
curry leaf plant they are perennials they grow pretty much around the year
and then next to that you can see that the chili plant is now slowed down
production as well and next to that the tomato plan that will be removed
soon the mint plant has now taken off after being trimmed and that's the
mulberry tree on the back the Malabar spinach right next to that the tomatoes
as you can see here still has the spider mite issue the one at the back the
container and the pineapple plant this is the other one that we planted so this
is also growing pretty well that's the Malabar spinach it's trying to use the
support that we provided the curry leaf did produce a lot of seeds and right
behind that is the Meyer lemon plant and the strawberries are now not producing
much because they produced in the spring season and we also now have some plants
on our shelf the Shelf that I discussed in my previous monthly video it is a
great quality shelf I'm using it for starting my seeds and as you can see
here I've used some aluminum trays where I have my seed starter kits and I also
have this seed starting greenhouse which I will review in today's video and as
you can see here a lot of plants growing we have the basil plants two varieties
of perennial Basil and we have some seeds that we started and I will talk
more about this when we look at the things to do in your garden for this
month but overall this area of the garden has a lot of these small plants
and small containers that are much better organized on the shelf rather
than just laying around you know all over the garden and now let's
at what's growing in our garden this month we have the Ivy gourd plant that
is growing we reviewed this in detail in our previous video and as I mentioned
it's still producing some good fruits next we have our fruit trees we have the
Dancy tangerine that have produced a lot of fruits and right next to that we have
the Mexican guava plant which is also producing well and the tomato varieties
that we are growing right now are the Cherokee carbon and a couple more tomato
varieties out of which I really like the celebrity tomato that is growing pretty
well and it's the best producer so far this month and then we also have the
giant German Queen tomato producing very well the Moringa plants are now towards
the end of their season but they have produced a lot of good
leaves and pods that we will see in the harvest section the Thai basil that
was interplanted with the tomatoes is growing well and finally the RajaPuri
bananas the dwarf banana plant is producing a lot of bananas and hopefully
we'll be harvesting them soon and now let's look at the harvest we made this
month beginning with amaranth we did harvest a lot of amaranth now I did not
specifically plant amaranth but we did get it from various parts of our garden
in the raised beds and it grew from last year seeds next we move on to the bitter
gourd harvest now the bitter gourds are a very healthy vegetable and you must
read about the health benefits it's extremely healthy and our bitter gourd
plant was one of the heaviest producers for this month and we were able to
harvest a lot of bitter gourds that we ate and we also shared with our friends
and neighbors so a lot of bitter gourds that were harvested from this plant and
moving on to the cantaloupe that we harvested or the musk melon as it's
called in some parts of the world this is a lovely fruit and they are extremely
sweet now this cantaloupe variety produces small-sized melons
and as you can see homegrown cantaloupes are just so amazing they look nice and
they taste absolutely sweet and it's a pleasure to grow them in your home
garden so do try out growing cantaloupes if you haven't already we now move on to
harvesting our chilies now we had the cayenne pepper growing for a while now
and we have been harvesting all the while from the late spring season to
almost fall now and as you can see here the cayenne pepper is producing really
well and still has a lot of peppers now after we harvest these peppers we will
trim these plants down and prepare them for the dormant season which is coming
up and hopefully over went to them now moving on to cucumbers now it wasn't a
great season for us for cucumbers but we did harvest some white cucumbers that we
were growing in our whiskey barrel container this month and as you can see
here most of the cucumbers that we grew turn yellow pretty quickly which is kind
of strange now if you look at this cucumber this is how the cucumber should
be but for some reason the cucumber matured very quickly now if you wait
till this stage as what you're seeing here that's too late and moving on to
grapes we did have some more grapes that we harvested this month and some of the
grapes even turn into these raisins on the plant itself and the Sun just you
know turned them into raisins and if you look at the grapes here there are a lot
of grapes and we even had some grapes growing towards the top and I had to use
a tall ladder to get on the top and when I looked at the grapes it was just
amazing there were a lot of grapes growing on the top part of the plant and
I was able to harvest most of it and I'm slowly trimming the plant as I harvest
the grapes and as you can see here these are a lot of sweet grapes moving on
the hyacinth beans we had the bush hyacinth beans growing in this whiskey
barrel container and they've produced pretty well and they are still producing
and the hyacinth bean variety that we're growing here is a bush variety not the
vining or the climbing variety and is the first time I'm growing this and it's
been an excellent experience and we are also growing the same hyacinth bean
variety in our raised bed and we were able to harvest a lot of hyacinth
beans all throughout this month and it was a great month to harvest these hyacinth
beans and as you can see here they look beautiful
and extremely healthy and very delicious the Moringa plant is a miracle tree it's
a superfood and each part of the plant is just loaded with nutrition and our
Moringa plant was not only producing excellent leaves green leaves loaded
with vitamins and minerals it was also producing pods so it was
time to harvest the pods and as you can see here the long moringa pods which you
can see can be harvested and there are a lot of uses for the pods and there are
some excellent recipes you can make with these pods the Moringa flowers are also
absolutely delicious now Moringa flowers are usually added to soups and here you
can see the Moringa flowers they look beautiful they taste amazing and it's
extremely healthy as well and you can also use the Moringa leaves you can dry
them you can add it to your smoothies or you can just cook them raw they're an
excellent source of vitamins and minerals and these are the pods that we
harvested again extremely healthy very delicious and they look gorgeous don't they?
now lets move onto okra we harvested a lot of okra and they were harvesting okra
almost every day throughout the month of September and the reason for the
excellent harvest for okra is the high temperatures now whenever temperatures
reach around 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit the okra plants really take off and we
did have temperatures around that range almost throughout the month and it even
reached around 95 for a few days and these are the conditions that okra simply
loves and we could harvest a lot of okra pods as you can see here beautiful
looking pods and they were growing very well in our raised beds and here is one
harvest beautiful harvest and the okra plants produced like crazy and now let's
look at the sweet potatoes the sweet potato bird was one of the birds that
was occupied for a very long time by the sweet potatoes and as you can see here
we harvested some sweet potatoes some really big ones it was an excellent
harvest and here you can see giant sweet potatoes now we did harvest some
tomatoes the Cherokee carbon is one variety that we tried for the first time
this year and as you can see here a beautiful looking tomato and this
variety is a cross between the Cherokee purple and
a beefsteak followed by the German Queen which is another excellent tomato that
we harvested the German Queen is a heirloom tomato and the heirloom
tomatoes are one of the best tasting tomatoes so overall both of these tomato
varieties were excellent and pretty large and give us a very good harvest
and now let's look at the things to do in your garden this month you can plant
your garlic and onion sets now the garlic is a cool season crop and we've
planted and fall you should be able to get a good harvest sometime around
spring so plant your garlic starts like you are seeing here in this video and if
you have onion sets or onion plants it's also a good time to plant them I haven't
started them yet and you can also sow some cool season vegetable seeds so you
can direct sow radish as you can see here this is winter radish it produces
pretty large sized radishes and you can sow them either in containers or in your
raised beds and I'm just going to be covering this with some coco coir I
already had some soil in this container so all I had to do was really sow the
seeds evenly and then cover them with coco coir so that they germinate under
that layer and you can also start some cool season vegetables like kohlrabi
cabbage cauliflower any Brassica broccoli and this is a good time to do
so they will grow for the next four to six
weeks in this seed starting kit and then once they are ready to be transplanted
you can transplant them in your raised beds or in the ground and now let's look
at some gardening products this month we have the Burpee self watering seed
starting kit for review and this is available on Amazon and in your local
hardware stores your gardening and what it has is 36 cells for growing
your seed starts now it does come with the seed starting blocks or peat moss
where you will be starting your seeds and it has some guidelines on what you
can grow and how you can note down the progress of your growth and what you're
growing and it also comes with this mat as you can see here which actually wicks
the water towards the the seed starting peat pots the bottom reservoir is where
the water goes so it's a pretty simple setup it's just a reservoir with mat
that actually helps wicking the water and then all you do is just add the
water to the top just so that they expand to full size and once they expand
to full size they will keep faking the water from the bottom reservoir and then
continue to expand and then the wicking pad will actually allow the moisture to
be taken up by the plants
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if you're starting seeds indoors you can keep a track of what you're growing and
as you can see here we are growing some kohlrabi some beets some onions overall
this is a great solution to start seeds indoors or before you have space in your
garden and in just a few days you will see that the seedlings have emerged and
it's a great way to start your seeds separate from your raised beds of the
ground so overall it's a great product I highly recommend that you use this
product and you won't be disappointed so there we have it folks that was our
episode on the California Garden in the month of September if you like this
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