We're just wrapping up a very busy Thursday work day, and I'm shoving off
early, but take a look at what we did. So Eric is adding some of the green manure,
fresh green manure to the worm bin because I think it was getting a little
anaerobic or aerobic or something in there. Yeah, there's a few in there, okay,
okay, good, that looks good. Eric picked up these two fiberglass pots at another
place where they didn't want them so we're gonna put two tomatoes in here.
Now if you saw my video with Tory, you heard him talking about his perpetual
spinach. Well that's what this is. This looks nothing like his because this has
been over-wintered. and it's now going to flower and to seed. You can see all the
seeds here. There's a thousand little seeds just like in a marigold. Because
I'm so short on space, everything's got to grow up, so we have trained this to go
up this pole. Now because this is overwintered, the leaves are very kind of
tough. I just thought it would be interesting to see it go to flower and
see what that was like. It's April the fifth, and I've got
Mexican marigold in full bloom and of course the nasturtiums,
of course borage. Let's take a closer look at the borage. So you see I have
plenty of borage and I am going to clean out this raised bed and we're gonna
plant some purple beans in here. All of this has to get cleared out. We're gonna
harvest the carrots, take out the borage, I'm going to use the borage leaves in a
big vat of compost tea that I'm going to use to feed the plants. And some of it will be
used as mulch, but I have plenty more and a lot of other food sources for the
hummingbirds and the bees.
I was hoping I could do that with one hand, nope.
It's because of the fencing on the bed. It's not gonna come out in one piece. You
got to see this, look at the size of that trunk! That is bigger than a baseball bat.
Look at that tiny little root for that humongous plant, it's incredible! If it
hadn't been caught in there I could have pulled it out with one hand, but... You can
put it in this pile over here. The roots on the bottom of four clocks are like a
big carrot. I just did this exact same thing last year, in fact you can you can
find my rebooting the raised bed with borage mulch last, from last year. Thank
you! Have a good day! At some point, you just know it's time to get the carrots
out. Look at the size of this puppy.
Smells good, smells like carrots.
Why don't you cut off the greens and we'll just put the carrots in that bowl.
We'll use the greens in the compost.
I'm going o make some soup...
Ha! (sees lizard)
Don't move. Oh my gosh, there's two. I've never seen two together. Now what
are they gonna do? I feel so bad. Well, if we want to grow vegetables, I've got to
clear this bed. That's the problem. You know, the carrots look better than I thought.
That's what's interesting about gardening: so many wonderful aspects of
nature that you experience when you're gardening. (to lizards) Just jump! Go somewhere. You can
go. I'm here, go the, no, go the other way!
Go, go, go, go! It's scared. Oh, okay,
go, go, go! Follow your friend, or husband, go, go, go, go, go, follow your, there you go.
No, not this way, no, not this way, okay good.
That's the four o'clock, right? Yeah.
This is the prettier side of the camellia bush. That's been here for
probably thirty years. By the way, just a little rake like this works really great
for doing this. There's another good way too,
but wear a hat when you do this. These are the beans that I'm going to
sow in the raised bed. I picked these up from Redwood seeds booth at the National
Heirloom Expo. This Safe Seed Pledge. We put probably about two pounds of coffee
grounds, spread it around and a bag of compost and some organic vegetable
fertilizer, and now we're going to plant the seeds. They're really beautiful seeds.
Look at that.
And I'm not gonna put a tomato plant in those blue, those two new blue pots. I am
going to put a Sweet Annie and a Shisho. Both of these plants get big. Also, we're
going to add some basil plants to the bed where we just planted the beans. And
this one plant is a cosmos, so that's going to go into the parkway. If you've
never let cilantro go to flower, it puts up a huge four or five foot stalks. There
were about five stalks that fell over, so I had the bright idea to stake up this
cilantro and now it's going at a right angle.
We'll check on that in a couple of weeks.
You know sometimes nasturtium is a trap for aphids but I don't know.
Eric is going to stick around and do the watering and cleaning up and he's also
going to turn the compost, which we haven't done in a while.
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