Why not grow your own greens?
Here i am today i want to talk about my own personal experience.
and i want to show you all the little small tips so that you can grow your own greens
and you can enjoy that perfect basil in whatever you have or that rosemary...
which will make your potatoes or the chicken so great in your own house,
balcony or small garden if you have.
and i have been doing this over 12-13 years now and i want to share my filtered...
experience over the years now let's go first off Turkeys in four seasons such a beautiful
place in a pot like this
you can have four different kinds of greens at the same time depending on the season..
at least twice you can harvest things and sometimes if you really put a lot of care...
you can have even three times a harvest
First of all if you say "Refika" i cannot like make the flowers
stay alive or i don't have a green hand i cannot do that for many of the flowers
i feel the same way i always forget and once i forget i get the responsibility and
i feel as if i killed someone and that's like a whole different story...
but if you start make your own times basis and etc it becomes a different...
kind of relationship and that relationship most of the time works and...
if you start for once you'll find out that it's much easier than you think.
it's very different than having flowers or green plants in your house.
It's much much easier.
my journey started when i wanted a really good basil some really good time and...
we had incredibly nice tasting tomatoes and now the ones that we get in the shop...
do not have that satisfaction
so can i do that so everything started like that and at first year it was first the greens..
then the tomatoes came then the potatoes came then the pumpkins came and now...
i enjoy a lot of things from my small garden.
Now let's start how to grow your greens in a pot like this. First of all...
if it's gonna be outside and you cannot control the water that goes through...
whatever you're gonna try to grow...
what you have to do is to make holes at the bottom why when it rains...
if the water cannot get out somehow it's gonna get collected in the soil...
and the soil is going to turn into mulch and it's also going to ruin the roots of whatever..
you plant and think that your plant dies.
So basically there has to be a way for the water to get out and to do that for example..
i have here three holes right now i'm gonna have another one here to show you...
it's a nail and a hammer.
I'm not a good faker.
To make sure that the hole do not get close because like it's here at the bottom..
you have to push the sides like that
and to do that you have to just like move the edges like this so the hole becomes...
bigger.
Then i just put soil in this the soil when it's watered can block the pores...
so you need some kind of small stones. It could be like greystones.
It could be something like that whatever you have.
actually this is more dusty i would have preferred something bigger...
but today we have this one.
Something like this.
it's about two centimeters at the bottom so that the water gets collected in the soil...
and then this look acts like a filter it doesn't let the soil go to go out...
but it just lets the water get out that's it so at the bottom stones then
When we say soil actually we don't just talk about the soil.
Soil is a mixture of three things.
It's peats, it's fertilizer and the soil itself.
They have a ratio and i'll tell you about the ratio...
and why we need all of them together.
First we start with the soil you can get the soil from the park can they get a soil.
In turkey you can.
We have four parts of soil. The soil when rain comes when you water the plant...
it starts to become like this gets closer to each other and
becomes like a stone. We need something kind of like a relaxer something...
that will hold the water inside in the mixture.
And that's called the peats.
peat is sometimes like this, it's natural unnatural versions of it.
It could be for example in a forest dried skins of the trees...
what falls from the trees...
those woody parts are really good torques what happens is...
when you mix those kind of things in the soil when the rain comes it soaks the water.
It keeps the soil moist and airy what onion does in the dolma and kofte.
The peat does it to the soil and also we need some extra energy.
It's like eating sugary or eating carbohydrates.
The soil also needs some kind of carbohydrates and...
that's the fertilizers. Fertilizer could be natural fertilizers like the shit of a cow...
or a sheep or very popular right now some of my friends...
and their husbands do it were pieces.
I don't know something like that. Sorry, don't mind my English.
I'm gonna have one part of fertilizer, one part of peat, four parts of soil.
That's the mixture and i mix it really well.
But as you can see, i do not mix the stones. Don't stay at the bottom.
For example in your soil there could be things like this you have to break them...
your soil there could be things like this you have to break them with your hands this is what
with your hands this is what happens when the soil is without the peat.
These are not also good for the soil. Bahar: It's a snail no
It's a snail yeah.
and when i was a small kid i thought when you prepare soil you have to just like press.
it really well; no. For the greens to grow and go around in the soil.
It needs some space.
so if the soil is like light and fluffy it's better.
It's easier for the green to grow around.
So it's almost ready if there are any stones like this i get rid of them...
and my mixture is well...
and ready.
I'm going to talk about the seeds in a little while a little more...
but here i have purple basil and i'm going to put the seeds like this.
Maybe half of it is going to be purple basil.
This is quite a lot this is going to cover almost one square meter of area...
when i like take them out and separate them...
and to the half i also want to have these are small purslanes...
the soil that you put on top of the seed has to be not higher than twice the size of...
the thing that you plant.
I'm gonna have some soil with my hands like this.
I'm just gonna just rub it like this so that all the seeds that i've done will be covered.
I take these big parts out and i put my two hands like this...
let the soil drop from between my hands.
Some people might say Refika you have planted so many seeds in a small place.
I always like planting this much and keeping everything under my control.
then separating them one by one or three by three.
and then widening the area.
some people like use these and put one seed in each...
but i'm never that tidy person so i can never do that look at it between my hand...
i put the thin soil here and the thick ones are kept in my hand so...
i throw them like this and now it's time to give the life water of these plants.
We call that "can suyu".
Can is like the soul the life, su is water life water.
Now when you want to watch it don't do it with it pose and a lot of pressure...
it has to be soft it has to be something like a light rain.
For example i haven't used this for a while i'm going to check it like this.
okay that's it she's ready at this time if you are living in a place like us...
with many seagulls and crows one thing that you also have to be very careful...
about is keeping these things away from them because they're watching us right now
and they're sure that okay you get the purslane, i get the basil.
they're that clever guys so...
in order to keep them away we have something like this.
It's a small wire...
you put the wire actually they sometimes take it off as well so...
As you can see. I can get in.
You might ask what can i plant and i had in my book i had listed them in three ways.
First one is the easy peasy ones. Mint, rocket, coriander, thyme...
basil, chives, rosemary, parsley and water cress...
with a little more effort it's tomatoes green peppers...
red peppers, cucumbers, ginger and potatoes.
If you really get the hang of it
green peas, artichoke, green beans, lemon.
Lemon could be a little bit more of it as well.
Bergamot, zucchini, bartolini beans and canned beans.
They will really be a joy to your life.
for example my mom almost never ever buy greens from any place.
She just gives like two hours a week for the garden and that's it.
So it is really possible and it's very relaxing.
I've just recently read the hobbies of the thousands of ottomans.
You know who was a gardener. Burak: I don't know. Which one?
Fatih. He was conquering and doing so many things...
but at the same time for the relaxation he was doing gardening.
Now we have got the first idea of how to grow the greens i want to show you...
when for example the greens it starts to grow more a few seedlings like this...
how can you take the seedlings out and plant it in another place.
You shouldn't like put the tool directly to the root.
It has to be a few centimeters away.
You'll just feel it anyways and push it from the bottom...
like that so as you can see she comes out with her roots like that.
What i should do is have a hole...
like this then if you have an extra fertilizer somewhere put some fertilizer...
at the bottom like that a little one not so much.
this helps the roots get into connection with the soil faster and put it here.
And then just press whatever you plant never touch the plant just touch the sides ...
and push the soil a little bit so that the roots and the other soil gets connected.
That's it.
That's how you have a lot of things and then you separate them one by one like that.
Or you say Refika i cannot do that i cannot like work my way around...
and wait for the seeds to grow.
What you can do? You can buy something like this.
This time could be really good in your kitchen...
but what you can do if you have an already existing pop let's say...
here i have my rosemary, she's a very old one...
and here we have nothing else at the side. I make a hole same thing a bit of fertilizer
and we take it out oh come on
like this has a lot of roots here. It might be hard because...
She created so many roots.
I don't want to spoil it so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna cut this.
There's a crack in everything that's how the life gets in.
And these are the roots and i'm also gonna put a bit of turf...
because the soil was so thick.
I also put it to the side and...
put this beautiful thing right here and add some soil.
Fertilizer too and voila.
We had the rosemary. Now we have the time for a long time.
Always the water is good for them to go and have befriended with each other.
Whatever sorry okay so...
one final thing now because it's the season for everything it's bahar time it's springtime
the name carries the meaning everything springs.
If it's a garlic the garlic starts to have roots from the bottom.
and green things from the top or it's an onion you suddenly find out that the onion..
grows such thing suddenly or...
if it's a potato same things from here from there from somewhere...
some roots start to come out.
Okay, they're called sprouts. They sprout because they want to have sex...
and have babies kind of thing so it's their way of showing and if you have these..
these are still edible but you can make this into a garlic and also like the spring onions
you can eat the spring garlics and it's very beautiful.
How can you do that? This is something we do for the onions.
I'll tell you how to do it an empty plastic bottle...
that you can find from somewhere.
Yes Burak. This is it we create holes and we fill it with the perfect ratios...
soil fertilizer.
I make a hole with my finger i put the garlic the wiggly side at the...
see you at the same time some dwarf something like this...
and these are rockets and when you want to water you can water it from here.
also have few holes at the bottom and have a plate.
That's it. We do this for several years now so...
in such a small place i don't know you can have 20 spring onions maybe more.
Like you cut some and they grow more so it's so great that's it Burak.
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