Hey friends welcome to Gardening With Creekside we have a very uh fun muddy day ahead of us because
we are going to be trenching the high-speed fiber internet line technical whatever that's
called but it's a fiber line um from the barn all the way through the new signature Garden all the
way through all the fields multiple Fields up to production I actually have a bird's eye view
Jackson lifted me up in the Bobcat so we can see exactly all the fun things that are happening here
so let me show you we are right here of course above the 15 perennials for the south flower
bed here at the proven winter signature Garden the future home rather and back here in the back
I think maybe you can see behind the barn Jerry and Andrew they are preparing the little Bobcat
grease in all the joints and getting everybody ready because it's gonna it is going to get put
to work today so we've got Cece and Alyssa and mayor are all out there working their little
hearts out here at the nursery today give you a quick little overview this area is going to
be where the signature Garden is so we have the Four Corners marked so this is the back
far Corner go straight all the way across and then up I think maybe you can see that other
steak in the ground with the survey tape so everything here is going to be this proven winter
signature garden now the problem quote with the fiber line is that of course we want to make the
most direct route right so from the barn we're going to come straight through this flower bed
this flower bed is going to get removed because of the signature Garden but of course I want to keep
these beautiful plants so what we're going to do this is why the Bobcat is here and while I am in
the bucket it's because Jerry's going to dig these up and then move them to a shady location just I
don't know 100 feet away from me and that way when it's time to plant the signature Garden we can use
these plants because of course I mean we have got those three stunning some horrific Edge Of Night
hibiscus we have got I mean look at the massive day lilies right the day lilies the amsonia the
daisy maze we've got baptisia in here flocks grass all sorts of things and we do not just want to be
wasteful with these plants of course we want to keep them so what he's going to do is what he
did with the other Gardens is use the big bucket here in the bobcat and just lift up as much as
soil and Roots as you possibly can get and then he is going to take them we're going to spin the
camera this is why it's great to have a bird's eye view um then he is going to take them right over
here behind the trees so he's going to lay them down and get with all that great soil they'll
not even realize that they've been moved and be underneath that the shade of the trees and be
just great now you might be able to see straight in front of me I can't tell what the camera can
pick up but right here in front of me there is a white PVC pipe sticking out of the ground that is
where we are going that is where the fiber line is going to go so obviously they're going to trench
nice and deep all the way across even up to that white PVC pipe that PVC pipe will then lay flat
in the ground but that is the conduit that they have already laid beneath the creek so the fiber
line is going to go in that conduit and go under the creek and then up the other side and then as
straight as we possibly can go up to production so why in the world are we laying fiber line
we're laying fiber line because we need internet and we need internet up at the production
facilities for shipping and just business in general right so we are very remote we are in
the middle of nowhere and sometimes the internet can be a little iffy around here a couple years
ago Jerry and I went ahead um we had to because I mean we upload five videos a week to YouTube
and that is not a quick and easy process if your internet is not just right on it could be very
um drive you insane so we went ahead and had a fiber brought directly to the house so we could
have really great amazing internet so that we can upload our videos and upload all of our things
that we need for the business we're tapping into that so we already have the fiber Line running
from the house to the barn so now we're running it from the barn up to production that way we will
have amazing internet at all of our facilities here at Creekside Nursery so that is what we're
doing the reason that we're doing it because as you probably know we will begin shipping this fall
and coming into many years to come hopefully of doing great online sales and so up at production
obviously you're going to need internet in order to run that business so that is what we're going
to do it is going to be a fun-filled day we're going to start with removing all of these plants
relocating them and then trenching either I or Jackson are going to get on the mower and really
mow down the grass where the line is going to go so that will just help eliminate you know
some of the clods and fun fact Frank is here on the track loader and we just saw him so he is
moving soil up there so we will also keep you up to date on what is happening up there production
preparing the land for the new greenhouses so a lot of moving parts and it is not even 9 30
in the morning lots of fun here at Creekside Nursery so stay tuned and enjoy the ride oh
friends so we have uh we're at a stopping point for right now it is uh two o'clock
in the afternoon and we started this I don't know 8 30 9 o'clock in the morning
we're halfway there no not halfway there we're to the creek let's just say that so behind me you
can see the trench all the way to the barn so what took us kind of the longest time was of course up
closest to the barn that's where we have all of a lot of our existing infrastructure right so there
is a main water line feeding the shrub lot and the barn and all that so we had to locate that then we
also have that you I think you would have seen that large white PVC pipe that is close to the
barn we found that one relatively easy that Andrew was able to kind of dig out around it because
that fiber line needed to go underneath that pipe that is actually like a um I think a six six inch
eight inch something like that PVC pipe slick PVC pipe that the French drain is connected to
that runs behind all of the barn and all that so we definitely don't want to hit that because that
takes the water from that French drain and pumps it away from drains it away from that whole area
that took a lot time a lot of time to locate all those pipes to dig out around those pipes and so
forth then of course we were trenching and so here in this area where the signature Garden is
going to go we needed to make sure that we could go as deep with this trench as we possibly could
go so that fiber line could lay down in that Trench we needed it as deep as it the bobcat
and the trencher would take it because you never know what's going to happen here right we know we
have the signature Garden we're going to build up on top of that but between here and the signature
Garden I mean what could happen there in the future with Development and Construction one just
never knows so we have learned to always go on the cautious side so it is buried um probably three
feet down I would say and with the fiber there's no need to put it in a conduit the entire length
because the fiber line itself is insulated so we are good on that now from the creek which is where
I'm standing at basically right now to across the creek like I said earlier we had that very
um a PVC pipe that goes through the creek and then up the other side
what we did with that is the fellows were quite smart and got the brown drip tube and because it's
nice and firm and so Andrew stood on this side and fed it through that PVC pipe to the other side we
were able to grab it Jerry was able to hook on the fiber line use some electrical tape wrap it around
there really good then came back on the other side and then I pulled it once we got it pulled took
off the electrical tape took off the irrigation tubing there's a lot of parts here y'all I'm
trying to get it all straight and then I just took off walking to the barn the boys were on the
other side of the creek because the fiber is on a really large spool they had a metal pipe going
through it they were holding it and I was just pulling it so I pulled it all the way to the barn
again it took a hot minute to actually to measure this line because we needed to needed to measure
the line inside the barn because of having to go up the wall and all that other stuff
so we're being very cautious with our measurements because this is fiber line you just don't splice
a fiber line together you can but it is extremely pricey to do that so we need to make sure that we
have the right amount of fiber on each end here at the barn and all the way at production y'all
I'm telling you it is just huh we're getting there so once we go across the creek we don't need to to
bury it nearly as deep because um construction is not going to happen over here so this area doesn't
need to go as deep that is what Jerry and Andrea were now doing is now trenching that line all the
way up we're making our way up to production for now we're going to leave this trench exposed in
case we do need to wiggle back and forth some of the fiber from one end to the next if we were to
get some sort of like big rainstorm that just pops out of nowhere it's okay because the fibers in the
trench and some of the soil Falls in or it fills up with water it's okay and everything's fine by
the end of the day though we're going to have it all covered so need no need to worry about that
I think I covered everything I think I think you're all up to date so we're just going to
continue trenching and making our way up to production update on production and clearing
land so I believe Frank worked for I don't know a couple of hours maybe maybe if even
that and then it was just way too wet so it just couldn't do much past that because the
soil was just absolutely saturated gonna let it dry out for the rest of the day hopefully
he said he's going to try to come back tomorrow if it has dried out enough and we will go from
there so stay tuned I'll keep you updated on the funds Shenanigans here at Creekside Nursery
my friends the project is complete for today it's not complete complete but it is
we're done it's Friday after five o'clock and so we are we're done we made it to production
praise the Lord and it fit it was long enough we had a little bit of extra room
which is good that way we can fit it and kind of put it exactly where we want to
in the building gives us some wiggle room as far as that goes give you an idea of
um yeah I tell you we feel like we have giant gopher going on in here but
yeah we're tired okay so here we go trench all the way from production all the way down to the barn
yes the line is in there it is lying in the trench quite nicely all the way down we are not going to
worry about filling in the ditches today because um it's five o'clock on Friday and we're hot and
sweaty and tired and even if it were to rain and some of this soil Falls in and it gets water in
it it's okay the line is nice and protected what we'll do is come back with the machine
one of the machines and just scrape all of that soil back into the trench and then roll it over
um and get it nice and compacted the reason that we had such a kind of like a time crunch on this
was because here where they are fixing the pad right for the new Greenhouse we wanted to get
this fiber line in because they're going to have that they're going to taper this back from the
greenhouse and so this will be built up some so it's better for us to go ahead and put the line in
now and then they may be adding soil to it gravel on top of it of course you know when we get all
this done because this will all be gravel in here so go ahead and get that infrastructure in before
right before we we don't have to mess it up again so that was what the the crunch was on
this and we really couldn't go any further with the signature Garden until we got the fiber line
passed through there so it's been a good day's work wouldn't necessarily call it a fun day's work
but this is something that we've had to do we've known we've had to do this for gosh
a year over a year and we were always just kind of putting it off because we didn't want to do
it because we knew it wasn't going to be very fun but now that it's done it feels good and sometimes
you just have to do what you don't want to do and just get it done and yeah so anyway we're
done for the day we'll keep you updated on all the things that are happening y'all have a great
weekend when you see this it'll be Monday so hope you have a great Monday see you soon bye friends