Welcome to Gardening with Creekside and today I have a very special guest who will be joining me we
are up here at the production area because we have lots of little projects going on and since
Jerry knows these projects best he is joining me so we thought it would be fun to give you a
little bit of a behind the scenes tour and show you all the fun things that are happening here
the very end of September October's knocking on the door
October's here Saturday I don't even know what day it is so there you go my friends
um okay so you just saw we had a dump truck Deliver us some feel of dirt fill dirt that
was the second load we're gonna stop with that one for today and I think he's going to bring us
two more kind of the garden blend soil for just some different projects too okay so what are we
using fill dirt for so we're going to use the fill dirt for today to kind of shore up behind our pad
for the new building that's going anybody new building what new building do you see we've not
talked about this new building no new building you know is it a greenhouse no no Greenhouse
this is this is I don't know if it's easier than a greenhouse
I mean yeah there's pluses and minuses I would say we are gonna have trusses made all right so
let's walk back here we're gonna take you on a little one it's probably better to show showing
is better than trying to tell so we just where are we where are we here we are at the production
area you can see Jerry was using the bobcat and you may or may not have noticed this little side
road that goes beside of production two and we're going to take a little a little jaunt back to the
back of the production area so we did this road because we had to have access yet now in and out
and um so yeah we're just gonna take a little walk through here um and get up here but you can see
the elevation change right so that's production two right here beside of us and you can see
what a big elevation difference there is between the areas all right so tell us what is going on
here my friend no we put in right here on this corner right here we put in it was uh probably
a little less than 60 tons of crush and run 6D or 660 6-0 60 tons to raise up this corner for the
pad for the the building so that that building is going to be 22 feet wide and 78 feet long
it's going to be long and skinny yes and so what are we going to do what is the
um the purpose of this what are we doing so each one of these behind each one of these
greenhouses we have doors just like this one here you see so we're going to have to build two more
doors for production one and then our potting area production area storage slash Greenhouse structure
whatever you want to call it for right now so anyway we're coming off two foot because we had to
come off I wanted to connect the building you know right up against the right we wanted to have it
yeah I wanted to have it flush but we have the the motors for the greenhouse right so if you'll see
are not eaters are not flush with the side I'm sure there is someone out there and YouTube land
that here's a structural engineer that would know like better way to do this but only thing I we
wouldn't do we got consulted our concrete guys we're going to come off two foot start the wall
here but we'll have concrete pad coming into the greenhouse yes so the greenhouse that comes in you
come inside the building right here so all three of the purposes is all three houses are connected
to the to the building yes so this entire thing will be climatized yes so we can run production
through it hot in it at any time at any point any weather you know just like the mailman it
comes with snow ice sleet rain hail tornadoes can I say this though that as a small business
we have potted into we have potted in every type of weather you can imagine uh Snow Check sleet
check rain check blazing hot temperatures check so this is a you and I have been out with a trailer
in the rain or in the snow a lot yeah so um that's the idea and it just gives us a
good facility to do that with the potty machine coming so hopefully the when the potting machine
gets here at some point it will go in there we're not really sure if it's going to go it's going to
go in the front of it but I'm just not really sure if it's going to have another structure
attached to it I've got to kind of work that out well once we can actually see it too right
yeah you know it's just better to have that thing on site figure that out before I just don't want
to kind of go off even measurements I just want to see what I can get away with because you got
to be able to get soil in the hopper and yes ours is a little different than some that are out there
um it's just it should have already been here by now it's been a long way it has been a long
ordeal we are waiting um nine months now since we have actually put money down on this thing so
yeah so the point pretty soon we don't start getting this machine we're going to start throwing
some names around us I know Jesus Moses people so but the point is that we're just building up even
further behind this gravel today with the dirt to kind of keep creating more of a slope towards
the woods and then we'll vegetate that out with like some sort of grass or something like that
landscape it to hold it all back right so we'll be in good shape right because we do have quite
an elevation change you know nothing is flat here at Creekside I mean as you can see there is that
slope that goes down now this pad is level but then here we have a pretty pretty good little
decline right there so Jerry is building up so we want to we're going to continue we're probably
bring in some more Crush right here yep so taper that down because a little bit there will be a
garage door here so it will come out right here if we need to with trailers which we will yeah you
know and come around so this will probably it may end up eventually being more two more loads but
I don't want to go too crazy with this filter right now okay but also I think in the future
this this bank right here that we have beside the ground yeah and that bed like we just kind
of stashed through some hydrangeas down there those guys don't have any kind of water or any
kind of fruit the weed is the wheat is taller than the hydrangea down there yes so we're
going to continue to work on that and kind of address those areas up with some Shrubbery type
things right because we do and like Jerry said down here on this low bank right here we have
um are those green Giants trees that you have those are animal greens Emerald Greens
so there's some Emerald Greens that are down there some type of mixture of panicle hydrangeas
um of course I think that what happened was there was a lot of things that were written left in a
black pot that we were growing we didn't order and then tags got mixed out right and we just
didn't really know which we weren't sure what they were selling so Jax and I came out here one
Saturday afternoon or something and just drilled a bunch of holes and threw them in the ground
so these are called creekside's mystery hydrangeas and so we are going to continue
to you know as we have plants and just kind of toss them in here of course makes things pretty
um and so forth now so I think I'll hop in the Bobcat maybe here in a minute
let's go can we go check on the boys first yeah we're gonna check on the production lot where I
was what was that how many months ago the last time it rained we haven't had rain in forever
and that was not eat well that was a when we were putting the fountain in Remembering we came and
checked on Jerry and um yeah we tried to run up here so we've got a fun development on that so
let's just get out over there okay and we'll check on them all right so here we are standing in front
of the mum pad and they're slowly starting to go away okay y'all sorry sunglasses too bright
um so the mums are we're starting to get some holes but you can see also that we've got some
with lots of good color we've got kids that are moving these for us right now but you can see
we have a good number of them that are still just cracking some color so we are going to be trying
to get rid of these as fast as we possibly can so if you need a mom come see us we've got them now
over here here is look how pretty that is my goodness it looks good um this is that new
pad for outdoor growing it is mainly um new shrubs extra we'll probably run four inch you know Grande
annual proven winter you know petunias calibercoas those early crops they come out here on this
section of plastic right here okay probably right in here we'll run those hanging baskets
maybe hanging baskets can go on the drippers over here where the moms are oh smart okay yeah yeah
so then this section where they're setting up these sprinklers here okay
so um got these at Berry Hill irrigation so they're the same ones that we're using at the
other shrub a lot but they don't spray out like up to a 30 foot radius if it depends on your water
pressure or how much volume but we're running a good number of them down through there so I think
this is three zones okay so it's uh three zones to control this whole section right here roughly
how long is this uh we were Josh and I were just talking about that I think it's a hundred foot
or more I think it is longer than this one's 100 I think it's a little over a hundred okay
but we went through 600 feet of um tube which I was surprised so I know it's bigger because I
had a lot of leftover when I did this one okay so we're yeah we're running through a lot more tube
with this section here so this will give us a lot of future you know to be able to expand and move
the shrubs out and that kind of thing absolutely so when we were here last gosh was that even maybe
a month ago this is when Jerry was on the bobcat last time we had rain and was removing the well
you weren't you weren't trying to remove the grass your main goal was because we used to farm this in
um vegetables and so we had like raised beds and so when you drive over it if you drive the wrong
way you go over the humps and so Jerry was trying to smooth that out because when you're putting you
know containers on here if it's on a hump the wrong way then it's not going to sit level yeah
that morning I had to remove the sod to get to that point right because the land playing on the
back of the tractor would get is getting clogged up so to get it level and it couldn't get rid of
the sod so I just used the Bobcat just to remove the sod and I actually took that dirt yeah and
put it over here on this bank that's going down so we're going to landscape that too with shrubs yeah
the other side of this lot yes so Jerry I was mowing the grass last week and Jerry said I've
got an area that's kind of a perfect spot to do like a display bed you know like big stuff you
know out here and so that's you know nothing goes to waste around here so we definitely use the soil
that he had to move to create another little area can we talk about for a second because I
know you're the expert here with the irrigation because I know we're going to have people ask
can we go up here and talk about the sizes and the lines and and so forth because we do have not only
um home gardeners watch us but we also have a lot of our audience is you know small garden centers
or you know Growers and they like to know all this technical information so yeah that is what we're
here to help so I don't know it was back in the summer I came out here and we ran an inch and a
quarter water line from the well all the way out here I don't know how many feet it's hundreds of
feet yep inch and a quarter off of the inch and a quarter into these zones right here
and I like how the gravel's around it very nice so down in that box you'll have three three valves
well there's 100 pgv valves let's see can you because you're in the shadow yeah there we go
that's a three Hunter pgv valves each one's a different zone for this particular lot gotcha
um that's that is goes from inch and quarter to an inch it is coming up to an inch right
here on this line okay and then we are come rise up half inch to that sprinkler head
inch half inch line to the sprinkler head there gotcha yeah so we go from an inch and
a quarter to an inch to a half inch yep there we go it sure is a beautiful sight
look at that very good do we have any idea of how many um shrubs plants will be able to fit
on here no I really don't know a lot a lot that's Jerry math right there for you folks
a lot a lot yep yep yep we just keep adding to it we do so what else is there something else
that we were going to cover today um up here another project I don't know if up here I mean
we added we expanded this one out a little bit they got that done this morning okay um that's
all that's going on up here right now I mean we got uh that's all just building a building and
extending the shrub light that's right that's it nothing else we are getting it done all right so
um yeah so this has just been just kind of a fun way for us to kind of show you a little
bit of the behind the scenes I notice we've had one or two people say you know now that
the growing season's over what are y'all gonna do for like the winter time and what are you really
do you not know us yeah we're just going to sit it'd be kind of nice sit around and no
I could take a day or two of sitting around I mean we take a vacation all right we are
gonna take a vacation but that's going to be for a little while but we do have a really
fun vacation coming up as a family um but no yes so we've had a couple of people ask us you know
what are we going to do for the winter y'all we've got more projects and more growing like
the only difference is that in the winter time um from right before Thanksgiving until mid-February
we do close the retail portion of the garden center but there are tons of things going on
here so we will have video content for you all winter long don't you worry you can be nice
and snug under a nice blanket while it's snowing outside and you can watch us work but it's going
to be lots of fun and anything else we want to add to this I don't know are you moving on to anything
else today I think this is it I think this will be it I think this will be it for today I want
to show you some movement with the Bobcat here just moving some dirt back there so hang on there
and we'll get some footage of that here before the video ends because it's getting to be late
in the afternoon and the thing about my family is they like to eat every night I mean isn't
that crazy yeah they like that they expect a good supper so okay Jen here is going to have to go fix
some supper so yes so we're just going to kind of show you what's going on behind the scenes but as
always we appreciate you thanks for gardening with Creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends
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