when I got back from a vacation my garden was full of produce things I had
to harvest and this is what the garden looks like right now I do need to do a
little more weeding but it's so busy right now harvesting I really don't have
much time to get out here and do a lot of weeding so the greenhouse is empty I
just cleaned it out and took all the herbs that were drying and I put them in
brown paper bags and I have them stored away today we're gonna harvest some
calendula and some marshmallow leaves and that we're gonna dry together
because that is going to be for my healing salve later on in about a month
that we will make so let's go out in the garden and find some of my herbs so
here's some coal Angela and most of it is out of my garden so we're gonna go
ahead and we're gonna harvest the flowers so what we want is the flowers
now a lot of people make oil infusions using fresh flowers or fresh leaves that
never works for me it always molds so I wait until my herbs are all dried and
when the herbs are dried then I make it infuse the oil okay so let's go out in
the garden and get the rest of them so even if you don't like herbs plant to
things like echinacea is beautiful do you see all the monarch butterflies and
it helps bring the bees into your garden and it helps pollinate all of your
things the butterflies are beautiful and they are really really in abundance this
year I think this is cuz it's my second year of growing echinacea
now echinacea was something I gave you all last year and a lot of you said that
it didn't grow for you echinacea does not produce a flower the first year it
has to be the second year and a lot of times it will be a small tiny leaf and a
lot of people think it's a weed but actually it's not a week
so I would recommend you try growing echinacea again it's very easy to grow
it's just in the beginning it just looks like a tiny little leaf here is the
marshmallow leaves so we're gonna go ahead we're gonna take some of the
flowers and the leads and that we are gonna dry and marshmallow leaves are
really good for moisturizing your skin and they're also very good for many
different properties so we we harvest everything we harvest everything but to
stem I only want to harvest what I can use
now we will dry these both together because I'm going to be using them
together
this is mugwort later this week we're going to harvest all of it and I'm going
to make an herbal wreath with it so that is mugwort and it's about six feet tall
the sunchokes are about I have no clue ten feet tall
beautiful now Calandra goes to seed really quick so I need to harvest all of
these seeds so I have them for next year
as you know I'm trying to not spend money and so one of the things is by
saving seeds especially of your herbs like this it can really save you a lot
of money herbs are an in thing right now and so
people charge enormous amount of money for herbs and most of them reseed
themselves so I need to get out here and get these seeds I do plan on next year
starting to sell my own seeds I'm really working on a lot of things
with my channel and you guys are gonna have to wait until next year and we're
gonna have some fun things coming up with herbs and all kinds of things there
is my basil I'm gonna be harvesting that too hopefully today yet because we have
a project we're gonna use with the basil my roses didn't do very well this year
and that's partly my fault I was not feeding them properly it's
just I was really busy this year without producing food seem like food was a big
thing for me this year so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna harvest some roses
this is all going to be dried together and we're gonna use this to infuse once
it's all dried in a greenhouse it doesn't take more than a week to dry
everything so I am really happy to have that greenhouse to dry all of my herbs
it's amazing that greenhouse is absolutely amazing someday I would like
to have another one and have it out in the garden I think that would be so neat
all right so this is what we got this is perfect amount for what I need and we'll
put it in the greenhouse and that trellis it's getting very very full so
the beans are growing the trellis my loofah sponges there's no flowers on the
Luther yet oh I always have such issues with the loop I even started it back in
February I just hope my growing seasons long enough for it
all kinds of squash I have all kinds of pumpkins and squash that I'm growing
that way when I harvest my whole garden I still have the squash it can take over
the garden and I won't have to worry about weeds so that's one thing I'm
really working on that way when I harvest everything I don't have bare
ground so the squash is just going crazy I have all kinds of different gourds
some that you can make your own dinner bowls with to eat out of I have some for
birdhouses all kinds of things so I'm hoping that they do really well so here
are my sunflowers one it's called teddy bear and I have some of these up here
these were all seeds given to me but I'm gonna save my own seed so I happened
from next year and sometimes are so easy to save your seeds there's something
just about sunflowers are beautiful so I am really happy to have these everybody
said the marigolds are growing and these are about three feet high and they'll
get taller and it's actually half shaded here so everybody's talking about the
marigolds and how they're growing nice I'm getting so many photographs of
people of the seeds that they got last year for those of you that are new on my
channel last year I had a 10,000 subscriber giveaway I gave away over 700
packs of seeds free of charge because a generous person gave me all of the
envelopes and so I didn't have to pay for anything other than the hours that
it took to put all of those seeds in packets so there are 700 people that
have gotten seeds from me and someday I'm going to share with you all their
photographs because a lot of people are sending them in so I'm gonna go ahead
and harvest these it's just more Colangelo
and the more you pick the flowers the more flowers you get so it's always
important to pick your flowers because or they will go into seed head even
quicker so it's important to pick your flowers pick your herbs harvest all of
this because the more you harvest the more you're going to get
we're watching as it is you start enjoying herbs a little more and you
don't have to have a garden you can grow all of these herbs in pots anywhere
outside your house where it gets mostly full Sun I hope you enjoy these little
things in life and I hope you start taking a hobby of working with herbs
it's so beautiful even if you don't like making your own homemade soaps and
things like that just growing them just for the visual effect that they give
gives you a lot of peace of mind and it also gives you a hobby that's something
that's worth doing take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow