it's cold wet and dark here in Southern California and this is the perfect time
to start growing your cool season crops as well as complete harvest of your
summer vegetables in today's episode we look at the California garden in the
month of November we will begin with a garden tour we look at all the harvests
we made this month we will have some things for you to do and finally we
review some cool gardening products to get notifications of all our videos
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so let's begin with the tour of the garden starting with the raised beds we
have the black Cobra pepper that we overwintered and is growing very well
and right next to that we have some brassicas cauliflower cabbages that are
growing very well in the cool season right next to that we have the lone
hyacinth bean plant and right next to that we have some beets that are growing
as well as some radishes now the radishes and beets are also cool
season crops that grow very well during this time of the year we have another
area right next to that that we just prepared and there are some beets
growing in this bed as well and the bean plants as you can see are yellowing and
dying now beans require warm weather and it's pretty cold here right now on the
other side we have some pea plants that are growing on the trellis and some
broccoli plants as you can see here and right next to the broccoli we have some
more radish plants these are the long white radish plants and some more
cabbages that are growing and we have some onions here these are the white
small bulb kind of onions and we have some more chili plants at the back and
some more cauliflowers as you can see here the cauliflowers are now showing up
the heads are now showing up and they are growing pretty well and that
concludes the tour of our raised beds let's look at our containers now we have
Swiss chard that's growing pretty well and some cauliflower plants as well as
the eggplants which are producing their final eggplants now we have some more
brassicas cabbages and cauliflower is growing here and some radish the tomato
and is still growing but is not producing any tomatoes now we have some
garlic plants here we just planted some garlic in this container
and another cabbage plant as you can see
we have some carrots that are growing as you can see here this is the purple
carrot and I'm excited to see how it looks and we have the mint plant on the
other side we have some Ivy gourd plants as well as the mulberry tree we have
some pineapples we have the Golden Nugget tangerine and the curry leaf
plants that are growing
let's now look at the fruit trees we have the Persian limes the Bearss lime as
well as the Mexican guavas producing like crazy as you can see here
and right next to that we have the tangerines these are the Dancy tangerine
that are producing very well now you can see here they're loaded with tangerines
and we just started harvesting tangerines this month we have the
Washington Navel oranges that are growing very well producing a lot of
navel oranges and then we have the Kishu mandarin plant which was very
small to start with but now as you can see producing a lot of mandarins and
that concludes the tour of our fruit trees let's now look at the harvests we made
starting with the banana flower now the banana flower is something that I have
shown in my earlier videos as well it is a large bud and it has a lot of flowers
inside it and is absolutely delicious you can make a lot of good things with
this banana flower and it was an absolute joy to grow this and as you can
see here right above that we have the RajaPuri bananas that are growing very
well you just need a little bit of space between the flower and the banana and as
you can see here the banana bud is quite beautiful and is loaded with a lot
of banana flowers beans we harvested a lot of pole beans and this was probably
the last month we were getting beans the bean plant has started slowing down now
it started to become yellow and is not growing that well but we did harvest a
lot of beans from this pole bean plant and this trellis the easy trellis worked
out very well for growing pole beans so I highly recommend that you check out
our video on constructing this easy trellis and it was great for growing
these beans and we were able to harvest beans almost every day from this plant
in November as well but now the production has slowed down so as you can
see here beautiful looking beans pole beans are in abundant producer and
something that I highly recommend you grow in your home garden
eggplants The Container Little Prince eggplant is not only one of the best
eggplants have grown it even produced in November so as you can see here small
eggplants absolutely delicious tasting eggplants another variety that I highly
recommend that you try growing and the eggplant production has also slowed down
now that it's colder and the weather is not very warm where as you can see here
beautiful looking eggplants the Mexican guava tree was producing a lot of guavas
and as you can see here these are extremely large guavas now the Mexican
guava is white from the inside and it is not very sweet it has this little sweet
flavor but not extremely sweet and once again you can see here the fruits are
quite good-looking very large and we were able to harvest four or five guavas
from this plant at least about two or three times this month so all in all a
great harvest for these Mexican guavas you can see here this one is extremely
large this guava and this is a very delicious crunchy guava not soft it's
very crunchy and less sweet Ivy gourds we had two Ivy gourd plants
growing in our whiskey barrels and they did produce a lot of Ivy codes this
month now it was kind of surprising because in the member is usually a
cooler month but we did have some warm days towards the end of October and the
beginning of November which is why we were able to harvest a few Ivy gourds
from our ivy gourd plant I think we will have one more round of harvest and then
the plant will go into dormancy I was very surprised and I was quite happy
with the amount of Ivy gourds this plant produced even in the cooler weather and
as you can see the harvest looks pretty good lot of
healthy very nice-looking ivy gourds and they are extremely delicious
Moringa they call Moringa the tree of life and we harvested a lot of moringa
pods as you can see here beautiful looking pods we had a lot of pods in
this tree as you can see here this is a big harvest and we still have a lot of
pods that are still growing on the tree the Dancy tangerine tree is full of
tangerines and we harvested a couple of tangerines in November but the peak
harvest season is from December through January or even February and as you can
see here we are using this fruit picker and I will provide a link to this fruit
picker in the video description and the comment below it's a very handy tool to
use to pick your fruits it doesn't damage the fruit and it it lets you
reach higher and grab the fruits that are higher up and then harvest them
safely now let's look at the things for you to do in your garden this month this
month is a good time to plant more cool season crops if you haven't already
planted cabbages cauliflower Swiss chard carrots spinach all these are great cool
season crops start we are starting some garlic here as you can see we got
organic garlic from a grocery store and we're just planting the cloves as you
can see here and you can grow a lot of garlic in one whisky barrel container I
have posted an earlier video showing how you can grow a lot of garlic and a
whisky barrel container and you can see that video on how to propagate garlic
from the cloves right up to harvest and now let's look at some gardening
products today let's look at the strawberry planter this is basically a
bag with a lot of holes around it as you can see here and I've been growing
strawberries in different types of containers and I wanted to try out how
this strawberry grow bag looks like and whether it lives up to its expectations
so we're going to be adding some potting mix here this is a
combination of peat moss perlite and compost I saved this potting mix from one
of our containers and all you're gonna do is just start filling up this
strawberry planter bag with the soil and strawberry is one of the plants that
doesn't grow very well in regular containers so I wanted to try out this
solution for growing strawberries as you can see here what we're doing is filling
up the bag with potting mix right up to the top and you just need to compact the
soil a little bit at the pockets where the pockets are and the pockets are
where we will be eventually planting the strawberry plants and the pockets are
pretty well made they can store quite a bit of soil and this is how it looks
like after you have added the soil now I'm using my existing strawberry
container as you can see here and picking out some plants now you can pick
different kinds of strawberries different varieties of strawberries to
plant in this planter and this is how each strawberry plant looks like and
when you pick out plants like this they will eventually grow into larger
strawberry plants now this traditional container that you see here is not the
most efficient way of growing strawberries which is why I wanted to
try out the grow bag the strawberry grow bag and these are all our plants as you
can see here which we will be transplanting into this strawberry grow
bag and just like that you can just plant the plants the strawberry plants
into the pockets as you see here and it's a pretty easy technique all you do
is just use your fingers to push the soil a little bit and then push the
roots inside don't worry too much about the roots they will survive the
strawberry plant is a very resilient plant when you transplant it it will
come back vigorously so you plant one plant at each pocket and the roots
start growing inside towards the grow bag and you can just rotate the bag and
then plant some more as you can see here and then just complete planting all
around the strawberry grow bag and once you have done planting all these
strawberry plants you can see here there's still some space left on the top
so don't forget to plant some more plants on the top part of the strawberry
grow bag and as you can see here we can plant about four plants maybe even five
plants on the top of the grow bag and this is how it looks like after all the
strawberry plants have been planted we can plant one more plant there's a
little bit space on the top part of the planter and that's how the strawberry
plant looks like all we'll be doing now is watering the planter thoroughly you
need to make sure that the water reaches all the roots so that the plants are not
in shock and they grow properly and even if you water from the top the water will
eventually reach the roots and the plants will get the water that they need
but since we're doing this for the first time we're just making sure that we are
watering the roots we are watering everything correctly and that's how our
strawberry planter looks like now it will start producing strawberries on the
outside and it should be much easier to harvest these strawberries once they
grow in this grow bag so there we have it folks that was our episode on the
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