Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we are in production mode we are up here at
the production Annex you can see the lovely putting machine behind me today the goal is
to fill hanging baskets we have a huge delivery of food and winter annuals arriving to us later
this week and so we are going to do a little bit of prep work we're going to fill roughly uh
close to 500 hanging baskets this morning we are actually short some hanging basket pots about 170
pots short hopefully they will arrive today that is just a kind of a constant Norm here is that
you're trying to get your supplies and everything and then sometimes you have them and sometimes you
don't even though they've been ordered for a long time ever since 2020 you know how the supply chain
goes so we're going to do is show you what we're going to do with these hanging baskets and getting
them prepped we are not putting any plants in them today because we don't have any plants they
are going to arrive probably Wednesday so that means we will pot on Thursday so to give you just
a little bit of an idea of what is happening here I will show you all the details as we go
I'm going to try to I'm going to try to be both a silver and a worker today Jerry's over here he's
going to be the pot feeder and he's got all of the hanging baskets that we're going to be filling up
today we have got a hundred of the 16 inch cocoa lined baskets these will each receive six plugs
in them we will use them with The Proven Winners recipe so they are there and then we have lots of
the green pots these are 10 inch containers and depending on the recipe or what we're going to
do with them they'll either receive three plugs or six for the recipe so basically he's going to
take these pots and he will feed them in through the machine right here we've already set up the
rails for the right distance between those 16 inch pots once he turns it on then the soil will drop
from right here the little whirly gig brush will clean off the top and then it will go on down to
the production line and then that's where we will be catching the pots moving them down and for the
time being we are going to go ahead and put them on the basket on the trailers rather and
then we will put the hangers on them so without further Ado we are going to get things going here
all right my friends so we got the 100 look at them aren't they all pretty over there the 100
of the 16 inch cocoa lined baskets are nice and filled and the hangers are on them so now we just
are waiting on Plants Jerry is over here doing a little tutorial on how to put the metal hangers on
the 10 inch baskets because there is a certain way to do that so that they're all even now obviously
that's a broken pot so that's a good demo so the wire hangers are a three-prong which if you've
got to make sure sorry y'all you've got to make sure that they are turned the right way so that
the basket will hang correctly and then if you can see down there at the bottom where the wire will
have a little divot in it that is the indicator of where you bend it over on the green pot so
that the basket hangs nice and evenly because the last thing you want is your hanging basket to be
hanging crooked so we're going to fire up the machine again he has already gotten it nice and
adjusted so let's see uh how this goes now that we have Randy up here she was down inspecting all
the annuals so now she's up here with us another set of hands is great and we've got the conveyor
running first so that's kind of the the first thing you do is you get your conveyor running
if there's any soil left on the conveyor it'll drop in this bucket we've got to
get a little bit of a water one but that's all right it works for now
so this one's going Jerry's turning on the machine let's see if I can show you how this all works
we're going to try the brush attachment on these we didn't have it on the other baskets
because they weren't very stable so Josh is lowering the um the brush so that way it gets
in there nice and evenly and then brushes off any excess so you can see it slowly going down
oh that's nice that's perfect right there so that is the perfect amount for the brush
because you can see how nice and even the soil is with the pots and that is exactly what we
want so at this point it is perfect Jackson knows it's perfect so at this point what we do is we're
just letting them run down and Jackson's pulling them off just because they're a little different
they get stuck and so he needs to pull them off because if they get stuck here then they back up
there which is a disaster so at this point what we're doing is Randy is shuttling them down and
then Roman is starting to go ahead and put the hangers on so we're just going to continue this
process Brenna thinks that she is the overseer to form it the Four Women of this job so we've got a
400 something of these to do so time to get to work
baskets filled for today it is a beautiful sight for us at Growers to have all of these baskets
nice and full I think we lost count somewhere but I think there's like 400 and something of
those guys and then we have a hundred of the 16 inch pots so they are all done now what is the
next step we have that nice gorgeous delivery coming from Pleasant View Gardens on we believe
it's going to come on Wednesday so we'll start potting up on Thursday and just knock it all out
but really it's pretty easy we'll go ahead and get the soil dampened down before we put those little
plugs in there the plugs will go in and depends on what the basket is going to be so let's say we're
going to do a mono basket let's say it's just going to be bubble gum well there may be only
like two or three in there or if it's the super Bell's yellow they'll be three plugs in each
one of these baskets some of these will have The Proven Winners recipe containers and so therefore
there will be six plants in those baskets because with the proven winter recipes you will have three
different kinds of plants and then there's two of each plant so two times three is six so there'll
be six plants in there that's why we recommend for folks if they especially if you can move up
your hanging basket to a larger hanging basket it really does help extend and less watering on
your part that's why in those cocoa liners as a 16 inch basket that you can leave it in there for the
rest of the season and it'll be okay so we will get them in there then we're going to keep them
on the ground for a while because when we hang them up on the Rafters we can't see what their
water levels are right because they're up past so if you will see all of those white tubes hanging
down those are all the drippers and then up on the rails we will have hooks so we got to come
in here make sure that all the hooks are where they're supposed to be and make sure that each
basket once it gets established and those plants are happy then they will go up onto a dripper
and at that point we can use the irrigation to water them we can fertilize them and they will
hang out so we will have hanging baskets in both this production production number two we'll have
them next door in production number one this is where we just Jam pack them in here and then we
will also have them at the retail Garden Center as well typically they will start being ready we
like to sell them no sooner like we want them at just hanging over the edge of the pot with lots of
good color a lot of people are very anxious to get them sometimes so like mid April we could start
well early April we could start selling them just depends definitely the longer we hold on to them
the bigger and the Fuller they get and we grow some nice big huge massive hanging baskets but it
feels good to have this done we're off to go have some lunch and then we're going to tackle another
project working on the annex I'm trying to wrap that project up as well so anyway hope you found
this fun interesting if you buy a hanging basket from your local Garden Center just know that there
was a lot of work that went into bringing you that beautiful hanging basket as always thanks so much
for going with Creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends