hey friends we have something special for you today we are here hey I'm gonna
in front of the camera that's right Jerry's in front of the camera today
he's not behind it we are planting up mums yes it is the first week of June
but it is not too early to think about mums and the fall stay tuned to see how
we do it
hey friends it is Jenny welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are
potting up mums we are this is a day in the life of Creekside this is just an
unfiltered view of everything that goes on here in an everyday life at Creekside
nursery we are planting up mums mums are a big crop for us in the fall and so we
are a grower so we grow the mums ourselves yes it is the 1st of June yes
we think mums are a cool weather crop but they're actually a hot weather crop
they love it really warm and they grow well in the heat so they give you a
little overview of what we're going to do is we get what's called plugs so this
is a mum plug and we will take two or three of these and we will put them in
this 10-inch terracotta pot we'll stick them in there there actually be two in
here not three there'll be two plugs in here fill it up then we will take them
and put them out on to the field with drip irrigation so we have a whole crew
here today helping us get these mum de mums done because many hands make light
work and this is a big job so we're just gonna go through and get all of these
babies planted
okay friends it has been one month exactly since we planted the mums and
their growth is noticeably more significant so you can see behind me all
of the mums that are placed out in the field they have been they're growing
very happy just happy little mums that we have growing now with the mums it's
really interesting because I didn't tell you this earlier mums bloom at different
times so there are early bloom varieties mid bloom varieties and late bloom
varieties we try to do a little bit of everything and we do all sorts of
different colors so maybe we will have an early yellow and a late yellow and so
forth and so on so the reds the yellows the oranges we're doing white this year
for the first time because people love white flowers these days you will also
notice in the video where we had those black tubing going down on top of each
of those pots that is actually the irrigation that we use for the mums mums
do like it really hot they like the hot weather to grow in but they are also
pretty heavy feeders and they like to have lots of consistent water and food
so we have this fantastic system that our irrigation is set up on a timer so
we don't have to worry about come out here and hand watering these things
heavens to Betsy we would just need watering all day long if that's what we
did so every time we run the water we can add the fertilizer to it it is this
great little system so come on and let me show you what that looks like so here
we are inside of the greenhouse where Jerry has set up this whole fertigation
system so the fertigation system fertilizer irrigation is this fantastic
invention that saves us a ton of time and make some very happy plants
first of all let's see how we're gonna go through this okay we have our Irritrol
timer so this has all the different systems set up the different areas the
different zones so they will come on according to makes it really simple if
Jenny can do this anybody can do this so Jerry just had to give me a little
crash course but it's really easy to control so you can have multiple zones
but this thing has 24 now whether it holds 24 or not I don't know but you can
do a lot of different systems and you can set it for times multiple times a day
so forth and so on so this is a massive lifesaver for us we have this both up at
the new greenhouse and then down to other greenhouses at the other nursery
so that little clicking that's you here so this is our Dosatron injector so what
it does is you have fresh clean water coming up these pipes comes in into the
injector and every time you hear that little click it is sucking the
fertilizer out of this massive tub so this is just a time saver for Jerry where
he mixes up the fertilizer based on whatever crop we're doing so since we're
doing mums he knows the exact ratio to mix up for the mums so imagine this that
little clicking a sound the little mums are going {slurp, slurp} oh it's delicious
so then the fertilized water comes out here down into the pipes all the way out
to the mums and they get fed it's as easy as that
all right that is just the coolest thing and it saves us a ton of time again the
first mums will probably be ready about mid-september so be sure to tune back in
in the fall to see these gorgeous mums they will be massive we don't grow
anything wimpy here at Creekside we like to have nice big fat mums full of blooms
so be sure and check us out again in the fall I hope you have found this video a
little fun and interesting a little behind the scenes here at Creekside
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Creekside and have a fantastic day see you next time guys bye