Hi, hi. Welcome back to the Kellogg Garden YouTube channel.
I'm Holly Capelle, a gardener just like you. A few years ago,
I really started to incorporate some cooler kind of vegetables
in the garden. We've been gardening for two decades now
but it really wasn't until the last decade that we got real
serious about it and then like the last 5 or 6 years is
when I started to really incorporate some pretty cool
things in the garden. One, we started eating flowers. All
kinds of edible flowers that you can eat and we've talked
about that in our previous videos. Another thing is, sure
you could grow carrots. You know, a beautiful orange carrot
is fabulous or you could grow red ones or white ones or
purple ones. You can grow purple peas, you can grow
radishes that look like watermelons, sky's the limit.
So, I kind of eighty-six the boring vegetables a while ago
and now, we're strictly growing the cool stuff. This year,
we have things in the garden like Cucamelons which are
those really cute little cucumbers that look like
watermelons but taste like cucumbers. I'm very excited
about that. I've got loofah going again. We'll see. I'm not
really good with loofah. So, I'm hoping this will be my
year. We'll see. We have Scarlet Runner Beans and this
year's Sunset Runner Beans which I'm so excited to see. We
have purple artichokes, purple broccoli, if it can be
grown purple, I have it. So, come on. Let me show you around
the garden and show you some of the fun veg we have growing but
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miss any upcoming videos from Kellogg Garden. Our path
leading to the garden is just bursting with color. These
beautiful climbing roses are a treat. We're enjoying them fresh but
I'm also picking handfuls of petals and drying them as much
as I can so that I can use them in all kinds of fun stuff this
season. But, boy is she a beauty. These are Sugar Magnolias. They are
purple peas. The pod is purple, the peas are green
and the pod keeps its color when it's cooked. So, these are
a really fun addition to the garden. They haven't quite
popped out yet just the blooms. So, we're eagerly waiting.
We've got plenty of Rhubarb ready for jam and pie and
syrup. Ours doesn't get red. Actually, a lot of varieties
don't turn red and this is one of them. It still tastes delicious.
Just doesn't look like that, perfect store-bought Rhubarb.
My scarlet runner beans are climbing up the tunnel trellis
nicely. We also have some Shelling Peas sharing the
little boxes with the runner beans. The hummingbirds
absolutely adore those beans and I can't wait until the
tunnel trellis is filled up. Lettuce everywhere ready to go.
Snapdragons are blooming and I'm especially proud of these
because I grew them from seed. Snapdragons are super
temperamental when it comes to hardening off. They need
several days for them to get going, but from the looks of
it, we scored this year. This is one of three of our
raspberry sections. Here is where we have our Willamette
raspberries growing. They are huge, red, juicy raspberries.
We live here in the Willamette Valley and we bought these
starts from a local farm several years ago. One way to
be successful at gardening is to get your seeds and your
starts from your region. Then, you'll know you can grow it
and these certainly are showing to be a success here. This is
another one of our raspberry sections. This is where we have
our Golden Raspberries and as you can see, they are just
starting to turn yellow. We've got quite a bit of buds on
here. So, this should be a good harvest as well.
Peas happily climbing the teepee trellis. Our blueberries
are looking just amazing this year. We have a few different
varieties growing. We have some Blue Crop and some Chippewa and
a few others. They are just absolutely massive this year,
I cannot wait for this harvest. So, to be sure I get to have it
instead of the birds, we're putting up this netting. We've
just taken three logs. There's the other two and we buried
them in the ground here about a foot. And then we have just
attached the bird netting over it and we're stapling it to our
posts up there at the top garden. So, we'll have it all
closed. We haven't finished, as you can see, this bottom part
is still sticking out. So, we will completely enclose it and
hopefully, that will guarantee me the blueberry harvest and
not the birds.
This is our Green Globe Artichoke plant. This plant is
almost 10 years old. We've gotten over twenty artichokes
from it in one season. Last year, I think we got fifteen or
sixteen. So far this year, we count twelve. She is the anchor
of the garden and by far the oldest plant that we have here.
So, I like to consider her the overseer of everything
that's happening. For every two artichokes that I'll harvest,
I'll leave one behind the flower because they are such
bee attractors. It's absolutely cool to see all of the bees
all over this beautiful purple flower. In addition to it
being beneficial for the bees and your pollinator garden,
it's also where I'll get the seeds from once the flower
dries out. So, there are a couple of benefits for letting
them go to flower. She sure is massive. I'm kinda proud. Lots of
strawberries in the patch. We just harvested last night. So,
not as many at the moment but it doesn't take long before
this little patch is sparkling with little red jewels. We also
have mixed in here Hula berries. Hula berries are a
white berry that have red seeds. They actually taste like
pineapple, see here. Perfect, beautiful strawberry. We make
these string lines here for our berries so that we can hang
them over instead of them laying right on the ground.
It just helps to keep them being nice and not molding
here in the Pacific Northwest. We have a lot of problems with
our strawberries and mold. So, if we can just hang them right
over then, we'll do that. This is one of those Hula
Berries as well. Super sweet. They're very squishy and really
sweet and I'm gonna eat it. My Concord Grapes are bursting at
the seams. They have already taken over the pergola here in
the spa garden. I'm so looking forward to seeing giant purple
clusters just dangling everywhere from this pergola.
At be until the end of summer and the beginning of fall but
it's sure worth the wait. Our spa garden is also home to all
of our cherry tomatoes. I should say most because really
we have things planted everywhere but for the most
part, this little area is lined full of different varieties of
cherry tomatoes. We have Sungolds, Yellow Pears, Brad's
Atomic Grapes, Black Cherry, Chocolate Cherry, Blueberries,
so so many. I'm really looking forward to seeing this area
full of color.
These garden beauties are called Violetta. A beautiful
purple artichoke. This is the first year this plant is
blooming for us. We've had it for 3 years and it's got three
artichokes on it so far. So, I have no idea yet what it
taste like or if it holds its color when it cooks. If
you're growing this variety and know, let me know in the
comments. I'm dying. I will definitely let one of these go
to flower because one, I wanna see what it looks like and two,
I want to cultivate the seeds so that I can grow some more
of these. This has been such a cool new addition to the
garden. I need more. Our main tomato area is filled to the
brim. Full of blue, black, green, striped, pink, maybe
red tomatoes in here. But really all kinds of really fun
specialty heirlooms that are new for me this year too and I
cannot wait to see them grow. So, thanks so much for joining
me today. I hope that this little tour has inspired you to
start growing some extra cool vegetables in your garden.
We'll see you next time but until then, you can find me
over at Instagram, @bigfamilyliving. Happy gardening.