some updates on the new California garden some harvests we made this month
some cool new gardening products all this and more in today's episode of
California gardening so let's begin with the progress of the new California
garden we got all our drip irrigation supplies from our previous garden or
older garden and I had a lot of drip irrigation main lines as well as some
emitters that you can see here as well as the quarter inch tubing
and I have already gone over all the details of setting up a new drip
irrigation system and what we will be doing first here is to set up this drip
irrigation system the weather was so hot in the past month that I could not keep
up with the watering so I decided that the best thing to do first is to install
a drip irrigation system for all the plants and I also used the same timer
base system that we had used in our older garden and set up the emitters set
up the drip irrigation system and in no time the drip irrigation system was at
work and I did not have to keep up with the twice a day watering and the fact
that you can see the water dripping from the bottom of the container is a good
sign you also may want to keep some saucers to catch the water and the plant
will then absorb the water over a period of time
and some tips and ideas that I wanted to share with you firstly is that using
worm compost or vermicompost to really help retain all the moisture in the pot
during the hot weather and it makes a huge difference as you can see here the
worm castings they help retain a lot of water and I also wanted to show you some
new plants that we are growing in the garden we have the Emerald okra plants
and although it was very hot in the last couple of weeks it is beginning to cool
down but we also have a lot of other plants like the tomato plant this is the
beefmaster tomato plant we also have our mango plan that took advantage of the
warmer weather and is growing well our beetle leaf plant is also growing well
because of the warmer weather and I do not have a lot of growing space right
now but hopefully I have some empty containers that I can use to set up my
container garden while we are working on setting up our raised bed garden and now
let's look at all the harvests we made starting with eggplants we were growing
two varieties of eggplants this is the little prince' eggplant
great to grow in containers we were seeing some spider mite issues due to
the extremely hot weather we've had here but after spraying this with a little
bit of some natural oils it was all good we were able to control the spider mites
and the plants are producing eggplants as you can see beautiful looking
eggplant that can be easily grown into these whiskey barrel containers
and we got quite a lot of eggplants from just this one whiskey barrel now we were
also growing the amethyst eggplant and this is the lighter colored amethyst
colored eggplants that we were growing in the whiskey barrel container as well
and this was also quite a productive plant yielding a lot of amethyst colored
eggplants and was quite a vigorous grower so between the little prince' and
the amethyst eggplants we got a lot of harvest
moving on to peppers we were able to harvest the alter-ego pepper that we
have been growing in this whiskey barrel container we also had some Thai chili
peppers this is the longer variety of the Thai chili peppers they are quite
hot and this was just growing in a five-gallon container that was set up on
the drip irrigation line as well and these are quite good and very hot
peppers now we were also growing the cayenne
peppers as you can see these are growing in the five gallon container the cayenne
peppers are also quite hot sometimes as hot as the thigh Chili Peppers but
extremely nice peppers to grow in your home garden
and we had overwintered this plant if you remember from our previous garden
and we moved it into a container and it's still producing a lot of peppers
that just goes to show you how vigorous this pepper variety is
and we had some other paper varieties as well as you can see this was the other
thai pepper variety that was growing in a container which we had moved into a
greenhouse and then eventually now it's out in the open in its own five gallon
container and is also eating a lot of peppers as you can see we had some bell
peppers growing the sweet bell peppers these are extremely mild peppers once
again growing in this five gallon container and it yielded a lot of
peppers as you can see now I wasn't too happy with the health of the pepper
plant overall but it still eluded a lot of bell peppers and a harvest looks
amazing although we had limited space limited car number of containers we were
able to get a decent harvest and moving on to taro root we were
growing the taro plant in these grow bags in our previous garden and we got
our grow bags here and the taro root plant was growing quite well in this and
was growing here for a long time so we decided it was time to harvest these
taro roots from the grow bags and as you can see here the taro roots are quite
large in size this taro plant was actually a variety that eels very large
size taro roots and as you can see here the main plot itself has such a huge
root ball and I will try to replant this root ball into another plant but as you
can see the harvest that looks amazing we were able to get quite a lot of taro
root from one grow bag and now let's look at some gardening products around
you at my local Home Depot I saw these round end tanks and these are supposed
to be for water they are used in farms for water for livestock but I also
thought this would be a great galvanized raised bed so I'm not sure how many of
you have tried using this material as a raised bed if you have please let me
know in the comments box below but this seemed like an excellent solution for a
raised bed and although it's a tank it's meant to store water for livestock as
the purpose is galvanized metal raised beds are really good in quality I have
seen a lot of places using these raised beds so let me know what you think
so there we have it folks that was our episode on the California Garden for the
month of September if you like this video to give us a thumbs up if you have
any questions or comments put them in the comments box below
we'll see you again soon happy gardening