hey welcome back to the garden rebel and it's getting ready to rain again but
I'm going to show you in this video just a quick tip in case some of your plants
are lagging behind what you can do to them to kind of boost up their nutrient
intake and maybe they'll take off a little bit better and catch up with rest
but right now we're going to do a quick walk around just some of the plants
as you can tell we got quite a bit of rain the other night and supposed to
continue rain for the next couple days so these are the zucchini plants that
we've got and you can actually see and a few of them see if I can't find some
here so little zucchini out there starting to take shape and we've got
squash on the other garden so this ground is going to be hope productive
for the zucchini and squash for good there you can also see the okra come up
next year this garden don't look a lot better we'll get here with some rakes
this fall actually fill everything up and get all the wood chips and things
like that cut back into the dirt and it will help give the ground a little bit
more nutrients potatoes are looking great and I am fixing to start weeding
the tomato vines I already have on some of them this afternoon the cucumbers are
too I always say that when I get down here on this side of the garden the
cantaloupe we're coming along pretty good the watermelons not doing so well
and remember a couple videos ago the small little Brandywine tomatoes there
the girls are and I have not put anything on them I just simply plan to
them and that's them coming up the tomatoes are really getting full of
blooms as you can see about 90% of them are full like that on this side
peppers are coming up good blooming really well
however let's grab something real quick okay let's say we do not have a lot of
compost left say we're out of all of our what's another thing that people use
blood meal which I am NOT going to cast any stones on anybody using blood meal
as I have said before I'm not here to tell you how to do it I'm just simply
here to show you how I did blood meal really doesn't have any more growing
properties and some of the other fertilizers out there but for some
reason a lot of people are really into the blood meal thing this is just what
I've done to compost you can tell the vines or the squash plants they'll go
right here we'll grab a bucket I'm just going to chop the dirt around it I don't
really care much for grass clippings been in mine I'd read prefer leaves
brings that nature but right now this is what we got simply scooping it up and I
always check mine for larvae of any kind it might be hiding that dirt then we'll
simply live over to our plant all right let's just take any plan out here in the
garden so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna come out here on the side up and
it's kind of muddy I'm gonna work you're screwing up just a little bit around the
plant
and I know rain coming in so I'm going to take my dirt and I'm simply going to
sprinkle around it and remember we were already growing in this dirt we know
it's got the nutrient scent that will not burn the planet so there's grass out
there and just simply take and spray foot around now you can cut this in
let's dry with a hoe or anything you got that you like he's in the garden but I
just try to get it right above the root system blend it in with some dirt and
from my experience this just gives the plant a little bit more nutrients when
they're behind you're not really giving them an advantage you're just giving
them a little kick in the honey to get them going now with that little bit of a
tilt it's not a magic cure for all it's just something that I find works for me
this area right here has been playing before so some of the nutrients in the
ground if I've been probably been taken out over the past couple of years I
normally try to put a couple vegetables down here just to keep the ground active
so any little bit helps for plants when they're struggling along good thing
about it is is this how can I put this without upsetting some people and making
muffled clear that this is how I feel about it this is why I don't do it in my
garden I'm a lot like okie Rob I don't prune tomato vines leaves I
don't I don't believe in it those leaves are there to feed the plant
everybody talks about root systems root systems root systems well with other how
to put amount of leaves your resist is not going to function properly like
it should on your tomato vines I've had people ask me if I pull the first blooms
off of tomato vines no I do not I feel that if the tomato vines is capable of
producing those blooms that that vine is mature enough to grow those blooms out
to maturity if it isn't normally they'll drop off on their own but that little
bucket trick in your compost pile at the very bottom break it by expose that dirt
that that compost has been sitting on for several months it's going to be
black it's going to be rich it's going to be full nutrients that settled in the
ground put you a seed in there make sure it's not too hot and by heart I mean
just it doesn't have too much nitrogen to where it's going to burn something up
once that stage starts germinating and you can see it grow like I do that
squash plant hey you can directly put that on a plant space and see the thing
take off so for the gardener rebel I'm out of here for this beautiful cloudy
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we're going to get out of here and teach sweet nice Tomatoes and hopefully I'll
see you next time you'll be spot you're always welcome thanks a lot for being
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